Inside EuroBSDCon 2004 (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Nov 27, 2004 5:44 UTC (Sat) by gvy (guest, #11981)
In reply to: Inside EuroBSDCon 2004 (O'ReillyNet) by ami.ganguli
Parent article: Inside EuroBSDCon 2004 (O'ReillyNet)

Err... yeah, a bunch of FreeBSD users, one OpenBSD user and one casual NetBSD/Alpha user around (between Linux users here and there) -- but there's a tendency: FreeBS users can't really live without Windows 2000 and are prone to PuTTY and even Outlook.

While Linux users somehow tend to ditch all those dualboots and emulations as annoying and superfluous in a quite short time like months to a year or two. :)

What's more disturbing is that they're actively yelling about *BSD left behind and out in the cold *but* do very little to actually help with it (rather than annoying people). I'm still to ask Ladislav what wording was applied to his inbox to make him add ", BSD" to DistroWatch.com's "Put fun back into computing, use Linux" motto -- still I'm suspective that I've seen that while performing Ukrainian Free Software Conference last fall -- a lot of yelling and one report out of 20 (by the person that somehow didn't yell but rather worked on pre-confiured FreeBSD-based LiveCD).

What a pity IBM people doing another report later mentioned that FreeBSD has indeed lost its chance to become a _platform_ due to non-willingness to collaborate with wider community and fanaticity to do everything in-house by 1337 commandos... and that most BSD folks still don't get it.

*sigh*