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From: adonis@mramirez.sy.yale.edu (Adonis Caldwell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Jesus Monroy, Jr - come back, we miss you! All is forgiven!
Date: 17 Dec 1995 03:53:25 -0500
Organization: Marc's Little FreeBSD Computer
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Message-ID: <4b0lq5$8ed@mramirez.sy.yale.edu>
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In article <4atukc$niu@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>Ya know, it strikes me that things have gotten far less humorous around
>here since Jesus left. It's all "Linux vs FreeBSD" wars, and "GPL vs BSD."
>At least when Jesus was around, it was "coherency vs incoherency" and
>I, for one, rather miss it.
I have actually been thinking the same thing off and on. The reason I
found out about 386BSD in the first place was JMJ (there was an
alt.fan.jesus.monroy.jr for a while). In honor of JMJ, for the sake
of nostalgia, and because I always wanted to try to be a net.somebody,
I have created...
THE FREEBSD 2.1 PATCHKIT!
I thought it would be wise to look at the sources to the lastest and
greatest release of FreeBSD before I installed it on my computer, my
LIFE BLOOD. When I did, I encountered NUMEROUS bugs which I have set
about fixing. v2.1, for all the bugs, still has COUNTLESS advantages
over earlier versions and other OS's (too numerous to list in the
margins of this article), so I feel it is worth fixing. But how to go
about making LASTING changes?
(I think I'm starting to get the hang of it... Oh, wait!)
I thought about approaching the core team with the patches I
made, but I figured, if they put out stuff like that on a
regular basis, why on earth would they listen to me? I decided
to go it alone. Don't try to stop me, either.
(close enough for government work. i'll skip the numerous speling erors)
I am taking all the patches I have made and am making them
available to the general public. The patches are being made
available after they have spent at least twenty hours of
stress-testing by me sitting in a sensory deprivation tank and
thinking only about the patch in combination with my left
kidney. Thus far I have only turned into an ape once.
The complete set is available in diff -c format in
ftp://mramirez.sy.yale.edu/pub/2.1.0-patches.gz and, as more
patches/kidneys develop, they will be added to the kit. I
think I'd like to advertise this as much as possible. Who is
the current moderator of the .announce group?
Also, if anyone has any patches to add to the kit, feel free
to send them as well as any recommended hallucinogenics or
internal organs for the stress-testing (no testicles, please,
as I have two many already). And please make it known to the
pawers that be at freebsd (hey, that rhymes) that such
[^^^^^^ when did Packwood join the core team?]
nonsense cannot and should not be stood for in a civilised,
democratic society such as this one.
Thanks,
Adonis.
--
A.C., FreeBSD Patch (kit) maintainer. Insert internal organ here ^