Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:04:50 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD early days... (fwd) Message-ID: <62105.919739090@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:42:27 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.990222143234.7463M-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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> 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. 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. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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