I’ve started playing football in Bushy Park with BT again. Weather was lovely (but rain is already back). I don’t think there’s anything better than a hot shower after physical exercise. Actually, sauna or hammam would be better.
When I came to Ireland, I had two ideas in mind: start playing golf and sign up for a fitness club. While I’ve played golf (in pitch and putt) on a regular basis, I still haven’t signed up in a gym club. My flatmate joined Westwood a couple days ago so that gives me a good reason to do the same. The thing is, it’s 70 quid per month. Do the math, it’s around 850 quid a year (and you have to pay an extra 150 quid joining fee). There’s also Total fitness not too far from my place, which is much cheaper (somebody told me it was around 50-75 quid to join, then 55 quid per month). Still have to think about it, guess I could pay both a visit.
There’s bullshit in my head. Oh, and I’m aggressive too. Fortunately that was me and not des@ or phk@ 
I’m sorry to see this guy stopping using FreeBSD and I can’t but feel this is somehow my fault. Wait no, I don’t really care.
FWIW, it wasn’t meant to start a religion war, I just figured that if it’s his right to say crap, it’s mine to say it is.
Edit: As Geraud just mentioned it to me, “Beranger” already had to deal with des@
I’m always happy to read feedback about my (limited, I admit) work on FreeBSD. This X.org work has been running for quite some time and is my most significant contribution to ports.
I don’t like being rude to people and I think most of the people I’ve been working with on FreeBSD can confirm I’m a quite cool and helpful guy, open-minded about other systems. While FreeBSD has been my OS of choice for the past 7 years, I’ve never been a zealot, I’ve often recommended some GNU/Linux distributions rather than FreeBSD, just because when you come from Windows, Ubuntu (for example) is just easier to get installed and running.
Anyway, I came across a blog entry today and while I can understand that people may be wrong about some FreeBSD stuff, I’m not expecting those people to make strong (and completely wrong) statements either. Funny thing is that the blog is called “Opensource and Strong opinions”. Let’s rename this “Utter Bullshit and Strong opinions”.
So here’s my answer:
Ok, so two things that might be of interest to you:
- FreeBSD source is branched, FreeBSD ports are not. What does that mean? Well, changes committed in the source tree go to HEAD (or CURRENT) first, except very rare occasions like security advisories or commits related to code having been removed from HEAD. With this commit may be associated a MFC (Merge From Current) delay, if the committer plans on merging the change to STABLE branches (right now, the supported ones are RELENG_6 and RELENG_5). Once that delay has passed and the committer thinks the code has received sufficient testing and/or review, the code is merged to RELENG_* branches of his choice. This doesn’t exist with ports because there are no branches (well only one, which is mainstream). Ports are not associated to any source branch, then saying that “X.org 7.2 never went into 7-CURRENT” is an absolute non-sense.
- Reading manual pages doesn’t hurt. I hate portupgrade, but right now, it’s one of those tools you simply can’t avoid using when dealing with large numbers of ports. People will argue that portmaster is getting better and better but IMHO, it’s not ready for prime time (Doug Barton is working on it on a regular basis, so this might happen soon-ish). So if you want to replace a port with another, you’ll be happy to now that there is such an option (-o). Admittedly, the description can be a bit meaningless to the neophyte, but there’s a really good EXAMPLES section at the end (and it’s worth reading, I can’t stress that enough).
I’m not going to take your points one by one and explain you what to do, because I think I wasted already a lot of time on this blog entry.
If there’s only one thing you should remember about my post, let it be that bashing is authorized, but please get a clue first. Otherwise you’re just making an ass of yourself.
Rant over.
For some time I’ve seen people with wishlists and considered having one but as a FreeBSD committer my contribution was a bit too small to hope for people sending me free stuff.
Some anonymous guy left a comment today asking me if I had one so I figured I could create one at amazon now, so here it is. Obviously this is only a wishlist, so don’t feel obliged to send anything, cause “I did for the lulz”. I also accept checks and paypal donations, you have my email address 
Edit: Thank you Matt, Sam, Moose and Jeremy!
Yeah finally. First mail I sent to lesi about xorg-modular was on the 14th of February 2006. It’s a bit more than what Kris announced but hey, now it’s committed o/.
I’m not going to make a long post, cause I’ve already made quite a lot of them. Thanks to everyone involved in testing/reviewing/patching, we wouldn’t have been able to do everything without you.
Announce is here.
Cool things I’ve read:
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