OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/26644/FreeBSD_Foundation_beats_fundraising_goal Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 23 May 2013 10:06:16 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Long live FreeBSD http://www.osnews.com/thread?546657 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546657 Long live FreeBSD!!! Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (graudeejs) Comments Comment by graudeejs http://www.osnews.com/thread?546658 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546658 Long live *BSD!! Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (graudeejs) Comments Congratulations! http://www.osnews.com/thread?546660 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546660 Congratulations are in order, especially considering that on December 9 some "feckin' eejit" submitted the story to Slashdot with the following summary:

"Perhaps a sign of our troubled times or a sign that FreeBSD is becoming less relevant to modern computing needs [...] But with the end of this year fast approaching, it has raised just over $280,000, far short of its target."

Yes, FreeBSD is dying and Netcraft confirms it, yadda yadda yadda, but the poster "forgot" to mention that the Fundraising Campaign had been only announced on December 5 and, therefore, collecting more than 280.000 USD in just four days should have been regarded as a very promising start. And don't get me started about the people that (as usual) hijacked the thread to blame the BSD license for this "failure"!

Anyway, congratulations are certainly in order to anyone involved, and that includes the donors who, rather than argue about the merits/pitfalls of this license or the other, did the right thing and preferred to contribute something tangible -- me included. *grin*

Oh, and even though FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE has not been announced yet, it's been available for a good couple of weeks: clicking on the links leads to the official ISO images (and tar balls) rather than those for RC3 -- at least this is what happens in my part of the world.


RT.Edited 2012-12-30 13:20 UTC Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (karunko) Comments RE: Congratulations! http://www.osnews.com/thread?546665 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546665 Yeah the same story was submitted to us. I ignored it. Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments RE: Congratulations! http://www.osnews.com/thread?546669 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546669 In hindsight, I wonder if the "Oh no, they're not getting any money" article was a very clever troll. It spurred me into action and I also sent them a donation. If so, a very clever article indeed.

BSD doesn't get enough credit, I think. It's still somewhat of a hassle to install it on a desktop, but as a server OS it's worth the money. I run http://www.dictatorshandbook.net on it, and it's really truly been rock solid, and comes with a default configuration that already chooses safety over features. That's cool.Edited 2012-12-30 14:28 UTC Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (the_randymon) Comments Open Source http://www.osnews.com/thread?546670 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546670 This is what open source is all about - the sense of community is inspiring within the OSS world. Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mweichert) Comments It's here http://www.osnews.com/thread?546674 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546674 As a nice coincidence 9.1 was just released. ISOs were already available for those that looked. Unfortunately you still can only use ports to install software as the binary package building system isn't up yet after the security breach.Edited 2012-12-30 18:51 UTC Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deej) Comments RE: It's here http://www.osnews.com/thread?546677 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546677 HAH! I had downloaded 9.1-RELEASE a few days ago without even realizing that it was the release and not RC3. Time to give it a whirl on some bare metal. Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Drumhellar) Comments who donated? http://www.osnews.com/thread?546679 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546679 Would be interesting to know the breakdown of the donators. Is it laregely private individual contributions .. or a few large corporate donations?

If it is corporations would be useful to know who is backing (and I suspect using) FreeBSD. I was surprised that my blu-ray player's documentation had a copyright notice for netbsd.... ! Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (project_2501) Comments HAIKU OS http://www.osnews.com/thread?546682 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546682 To the contrary, Haiku seems quite far from their [modest] fundraising goal.

They re-use and adapt BSD drivers, so there is some overlap... Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Treza) Comments RE: who donated? http://www.osnews.com/thread?546683 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546683 See for yourself at http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml Looks to me like a healthy mix of corporates and individuals. Some anonymous corp donated a quarter million dollars all in one, but there are hundreds of individuals who gave from $5 and up. Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (the_randymon) Comments RE: Congratulations! http://www.osnews.com/thread?546684 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546684
"feckin' eejit" submitted the story to Slashdot with the following summary:


That's what you get for reading Suckdot. "BSD is dead" is practically the battle cry around those parts. Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments on the topic of freebsd http://www.osnews.com/thread?546688 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546688 Does FreeBSD have any hardware assisted virtualization software for it? Is there a VirtualBox or Xen for the FreeBSD family of OS's? Sun, 30 Dec 2012 23:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TechGeek) Comments RE[2]: Congratulations! http://www.osnews.com/thread?546706 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546706 Your post is too, a clever troll. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 05:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wafflez) Comments RE: on the topic of freebsd http://www.osnews.com/thread?546710 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546710 Virtualbox works perfectly. Xen Dom0 support will come with 10.0. Check out http://xenbits.xen.org/people/attilio/presentations/FreeBSD_develop... for more info on the state of Xen support. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 06:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deej) Comments RE: on the topic of freebsd http://www.osnews.com/thread?546722 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546722 Another option for virtualization on FreeBSD 10 - bhyve ;)

http://bhyve.org/ Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Risthel) Comments RE[2]: on the topic of freebsd http://www.osnews.com/thread?546724 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546724 I don't think a hypervisor that runs on freebsd and, right now, can only run freebsd is what the OP had in mind.... Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments RE: on the topic of freebsd http://www.osnews.com/thread?546725 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546725 Jails.... has "pure hardware support" ;)
It runs straight on cpu. lolEdited 2012-12-31 11:14 UTC Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (graudeejs) Comments RE: HAIKU OS http://www.osnews.com/thread?546732 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546732 Last year they had a smaller goal, and when they achieved it they suddenly upped their goal by 50% Also, they haven't updated their donations since November. Who knows how much they got within the last month? Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (andrewclunn) Comments RE: Congratulations! http://www.osnews.com/thread?546733 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546733 The supposed down side of the BSD license is that companies can just take the code, close source it, and release (cough Apple cough). The good part is that then those companies want to continue to take advantage of the development done by the open source community, so they'll throw some money at BSD to keep the dream alive (to the tune of $250,000 it seems).

If Apple wants to "steal" code that's being given away in return for the WebKit and Clang, great. If companies are willing to give big bucks to open source development because they think it's cheaper than hiring coders outright, that's fine by me. Here's to truly open source software, and all the BSD haters can shove it! Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (andrewclunn) Comments