From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 22 19:32:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0DB111052 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:32:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA03165; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:27:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdtB3157; Tue Feb 23 03:27:39 1999 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:27:31 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD early days... (fwd) In-Reply-To: <62105.919739090@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > With the emergence of FreeBSD, came the connection with Walnut Creak > > cdrom. They hired Rod Grimes to ride hurd on it full time, and the new > > group decided that a CVS server was the way to go for tracking the > > software. Thus focus shifted from ref.tfs.com to Freefall.cdrom.com > > which later also became freefall.freebsd.org. > > > > Rod was (still is) a skydiver and thus the names of some of the machines.. > > freefall, and thud. After Rod left to persue his own businesses, those who > > followed didn't keep up the skydiving references. > > Actually, just a few corrections here. The connection with Walnut > Creek CDROM came about through my calling them on the phone from > Ireland purely because I liked their Aminet CDROM and thought they had > the best "production values" of any of the 5 or 6 CDROM publishers > represented on my shelf. I didn't say HOW the connection to WC was made, just that it ended up with rod working there :-) I often wondered what the first contact was... Do you remeember when FreeBSD diverged (and how the people were selected for what became "core"? I think I was having a non 386BSD week that week and seem to have missed it.. I do know that my departure to AUS took me out of the picture for a while, and was responsible for ref being unavailable. I don't know what the influence of that was however.. > Once we had established the basis for some > sort of relationship, they asked for someone to work with them on a > more personal basis and Rod, who was just up the west U.S. coast a bit > and far closer than I in Ireland or Nate in Montana, was hired to come > down for 3 months (was it 3, Rod? I can't remember the initial fabled > number :) and do the CD. He ended up staying closer to a year and > creating their entire internal LAN as well as a number of servers and > god-only-knows what else and, oh yes, just happened to eventually > produce a CD while he was down there as well. :-) I think I took > over the next CD after that and I've been basically doing them ever > since. > > Also, just to really pick nits, "thud" was not one of Rod's machine > names, that was mine and based on the Dilbert cartoon which we'd stuck > on freefall. In this cartoon, Dilbert says "I'm thinking of taking up > skydiving, Dogbert, what do you think?" Dogbert replies "Thud" > and Dilbert, now looking rather concerned, says "You mean ``thud, > ouch!'' or just ``Thud!?''" As I recall, Rod didn't find the joke > anywhere nearly as amusing as the rest of us, but ah well - thud is > gone now, RIP. :-) yes but it's still a skydiving name right? :-) There was I think another, but I can't remember what it was.. > > - Jordan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message