It is 12:10 AM PST (Tuesday morning) now that I write this, we just came back from FreeBSD‘s 10th Year Anniversary Party at the DNA Lounge club in San Francisco. Dig in for info and some pictures.I arrived there with my husband at around 8:10 PM and there were already quite a few people. Entrance was free and in the door there was Elliott Chuang from the Bay Area FreeBSD User Group and he was giving to everyone deamon flashing red ears and a red tail. Also, a live FreeBSD 5 admininstrator’s mini-CD was given too. Some people (like me 🙂 also got the whole FreeBSD 5.1 retail package, all four CDs with the installation manual. While you would buy your own drinks, there was free food (Indian cuisine, delicious) available for all.
In the meantime, people will fill up the dance floor and dance and have some good fun. Obviously this party means a lot to the core team who would joing the dancefloor for some… Trance. I tried to spot Jordan Hubbard, but couldn’t find him around, while the team was expecting Steve Jobs to arrive later (he had RSVP’ed, we were told).
At around 9:20 PM members of the FreeBSD core team would call Murray Stokely (VP of engineering at FreeBSD Mall) to present him with his awards for his hard work on FreeBSD: a jewllery of a sort (which I didn’t quite catch exactly what it was, too much noise 😉 and an iPod courtesy of Apple (which was one of the sponsors of the event along with Yahoo! and OffMyServer). There were also giving away T-shirts to the Core Team and to some attendees (got one too). The T-shirt has the BSD Daemon on the front(picture) and the One Ring from LordOfTheRings on the back with some FreeBSD text instead of the Elvish. Really nice t-shirt. Later in the night, the project would give away two FreeBSD servers to two lucky winners too (we didn’t stay long enough to find out who won the servers though as we had to leave early)!
I don’t think I would have being the winner though, as my luck wasn’t really good last night. My camera didn’t wanna turn on (with brand new batteries) so I could not get any pictures for you. Matt Olander from OffMyServer (the main organizer of the event, very cool guy) promised me some links with some good pictures tomorrow so I will be updating this article when I get these links (update: here are some pics). For now, we have to rely on DNA Lounge’s web camera low-quality images that I grabbed when I got home (the whole show was live via Real Video as well).
Overall this was a very successful party, people had some fun and celebrated FreeBSD’s 10 years. Here’s to many more years, FreeBSD, we wish you the best and see you in 10 years from now again, clubbing and dancing!
The bar | Matt Olander on the right |
Austin, the Operations Manager, and Murray Stokely | Murray Stokely |
Dancing people and the main speaker, Austin, of the event at the back | One of the DJs |
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Should be in Belgium so I can at least join them
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Congratulation, FreeBSD!!
i use you daily and happily!
Happy birthday BSD. The world owes you one. :>
Happy birthday FreeBSD!
Eugenia, now that you’ve got that T-shirt, beware when you go to Texas;-).
I’m using FreeBSD on some system, works great. (except on sparc64, because of syscons support)
Netcraft’s stats proves the quality of BSD…
Happy birthday!
This is something to celebrate!
Happy birthday FreeBSD
Thank you for your wonderful os!
And Theo wasn’t invited?
Thank you folks! Great work!
OpenSource needs diversity and competition! Keep up the great work!
-lAphy
Long live FreeBSD!!
Are the pics (the one with the two girls whipping a guy) on dnalounge.com front page also from the freebsd party? if so then either the freebsd dudes are kind of kinky or they’re demostrating the evilness of the GPL (the GPL dungeon maybe)
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I somehow doubt they are
Happy Birthday FreeBSD, here’s to wishing you another 10 years of “dying”
Should be in Belgium so I can at least join them
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Yeah! Or at least in SF during Summer holiday when I’m there
LinuxWorld 2003 was cool too, so was the Helix party afterwards. Free drinks and food + a T-shirt
Server:~# uptime
6:33AM up 394 days, 16:52, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Let’s hear it for your electric company !! That’s a long time with uninterupted power. Or were you trying to imply OS stability with no load ?
6:33AM up 394 days, 16:52, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Hey, how about an IP, I bet there’s some juicy security vulnerabilities on that box!
http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html#adv
Are the pics (the one with the two girls whipping a guy) on dnalounge.com front page also from the freebsd party? if so then either the freebsd dudes are kind of kinky or they’re demostrating the evilness of the GPL (the GPL dungeon maybe)
Those are from the FreeBDSM party… Not entirely the same crowd for that one.
Where was Jeremy Zawodny? Doesn’t he own the place?
http://apollo.backplane.com/pics.bsdparty/
Thanks for the link, I will update the article with it!
BTW, it is scary, but me and JBQ are on six of Matt’s pictures (and we didn’t stay for the whole duration there)! Here is one, so you can spot us on the other 5:
http://www.osnews.com/img/5224/shot2.jpg (I fixed the gamma correction in this pic)
BTW, it is such a shame that I didn’t know that Matt Dillon was there, because we have made 2 interviews by email already, and I couldn’t recognize him in the crowd… At some point I saw a guy with a good camera (Matt’s got a Canon 10D, which is what my husband wants to buy for Christmas) and I told my husband: “look, that guy has a nice camera”. Ironic… 😮
Here: http://cerebrum.dnalounge.com/archive/
Server:~# uptime
6:33AM up 394 days, 16:52, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Here’s mine:
[hpepper@walt]/home/hpepper$ uptime
7:49PM up 24 days, 9:23, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Sorry, I think security is more important than uptime.
Thanks FreeBSD team!
My headless FreeBSD 4.9 server is an absolute dream to maintain. Just run my buildworld script when ever a security advisory shows up on the FreeBSD web site, and it just runs…
i use FreeBSD in my machine and i like it so much.
Thanx a lot to FreeBSD Developers.
I wish I could have been there too :/
Long uptime doe not necessarily mean that the server contains security vulnerabilities. Assuming a few things:
1) If you don’t use any of the components in the bases system that have been patched for security (OpenSSL etc (OpenSSL can be used from ports and then it is patched separately). To know that you have to keep track of known security vulnerabilities as I assume all good admins do
2) Use a firewall to shield off anything that is not served.
3) The server daemons (Apache, proftpd etc) are patched as needed when security vulnerabilities are found. These and almost everything you install from ports are patched without taking the system down.
Now OTOH if sendmail is used on that system and not patched in over a year then that system is ready for taking
Gotta looove the daemon! Here’s something for all the zealots and trollers: FreeBSD 4 is dead! Long live FreeBSD 5! Let’s roll for another 10 years
Happy birthday FreeBSD!!! The best OS ever!!!
Great os
well,
~# w
1:28PM up 581 days, 3:56, 1 user, load averages: 3.98, 3.14, 2.46
Happy birthday FreeBSD, you’ve been serving me well.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend the party, 
I guess I’ll have to wait for the 20th anniversary… Or maybe Dragonfly’s 10th anniversary… Only time will tell.
Yay FreeBSD. Time to upgrade my FreeBSD server to 5.2, successively upgraded from 4.3 to 4.9 by source over 2.25 years (do THAT with windows or most linux distros
). Want UFS2 filesystems, so sadly have to do a install on a new disk. Oh well 
NYC 2k4!
You already came long way….but to remain the best as usual you still have to go long way…..Desperately waiting for FreeBSD 5.2..!!!
Happy Birthday, dear FreeBSD!