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FreeBSD Celebrates 25th Anniversary, Tuesday, June 19th

posted by takyon on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:00PM   
from the still-free dept.

canopic jug writes:

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that the name FreeBSD turns 25 years old on 2018-06-19. The mailing list archives contain a thread about name selection with with a message containing the following suggestion

How about just simply "FreeBSD"? No confusion, no fuss, seems like a good compromise to me. :-)

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• FreeBSD has a Great Prognosis, However... FreeBSD has a Great Prognosis, However... (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:06PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:06PM (#695255)

  It is official; Surveys now confirm: The EU is dying

  One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered EU last week when Italian minister Matteo Salvini denied human trafficking vessels the right to make port. With immigration pressures on Italy and Greece already at breaking point; political pressure on Angela Merkel in Germany lead the Germans and French to insist that migrants be offered 'asylum' in the first European country they enter. The EU is collapsing in complete disarray, as dead in the water as one of Merkel's drowned migrants.

  You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the EU's future. The writing is on the wall: The EU faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the EU because the EU is dying. Things are looking very bad for the EU. As many of us are aware, mass migration of unskilled migrants will spell the death knell for all welfare programs in EU member states.

  Let's stick to the facts and look at the numbers.

  Germany has admitted over 1 million migrants, 80% are unfit for anything other than menial work. Integration, housing and welfare costs will out-weigh their net economic contribution. Sex attacks committed by migrants have reached pandemic proportions across the entire continent. Tourism numbers in France and Germany have dwindled due to terrorism. Greece is bankrupt and unable to escape the crushing debt burden imposed by its membership in the Eurozone. The pension liabilities of the various EU institutions total over €63 billion.

  All major surveys show that the EU has lost the confidence of Europe's peoples. The EU is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the EU is to survive at all it will be as a third world shithole. The EU continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save the EU from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the EU is dead.

  Fact: The EU is dying

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• Re:FreeBSD has a Great Prognosis, However... (Score: 0, Offtopic) by isostatic on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:33PM

  by isostatic (365) on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:33PM (#695276) Journal

  Tourism numbers in France and Germany have dwindled due to terrorism

  https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.ARVL?end=2016&locations=FR-DE-US&start=2009&view=chart [worldbank.org]

  So for 2016:
  Germany 2016 record high, 1.5% up on 2015
  France was at 2012 levels, with a 1% fall in 2016 from 2015
  The US had a 2.5% fall in 2016 from 2015

  This is despite reports like 'One million fewer visitors went to the French capital in the first six months of 2016' from rags like this [express.co.uk]

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