BSD Users Group, Sydney

bugs - [Participate in the BUGS mailing list] Note that the list is disabled.

peterjeremy (peterjeremy@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-09-30T00:57:37+00:00

[BSD Users Group, Sydney.] Welcome to the BSD Users Group, Sydney. BUGS is a group of users of BSD based operating systems, founded in Sydney, Australia on 16 May, 1999. We communicate via IRC, and occasionally on our mailing list. We meet sometimes. Activities include support, advocacy, and sharing of resources and information, but a major objective is to enjoy each other's company and have a good time without actually wasting time.

members - Remove use of raw HTML since it's no longer supported. This is still a WIP since there's unwanted indenting

peterjeremy (peterjeremy@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-05-17T08:56:49+00:00

BUGS Members ---------- a b [Sue] Sue Blake was one of the founding members of BUGS and passed away from cancer early on 2010-Dec-17. She will be sadly missed. Sue was a sysadmin, sometimes adult educator and researcher, who ran FreeBSD on Intels and dabbled with BSD systems on Macintosh hardware and worked with that commercial unix which changes its company almost as often as its name. Sue lived in Darkinjung country near Sydney with her pet galah named Taffy, …

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callum (callum@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-05-17T07:16:52+00:00

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callum (callum@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-05-17T07:16:19+00:00

why_so_many - [Ok, cool. But which one do I join?]

callum (callum@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-11-12T08:01:00+00:00

Why so many IRC Servers? Hysterical Raisins. The first #bugs channel was created on the irc.oz.org network by Patrick Kelso in early 2005. At some stage, perhaps due to the instability 2006, someone attempted to create a backup channel on freenode, being the obvious choice due to it's popularity. However, there were hoops to jump through in registering the channel properly, so it stayed as ##bugs for many years. This was only more recently addressed by Andrew Perry so that we had proper operato…

irc_help - [Getting Started]

callum (callum@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-11-12T07:57:25+00:00

What is IRC? IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. It's a text-based chat service which predates all those ad-infested, bloated, virus-ridden commercial offerings like Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, etc. Just as there is no single web server, there is no single

dummypageformonitoring - created

peterjeremy (peterjeremy@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-10-06T08:03:42+00:00

This page is used for blackbox monitoring of the BUGS website. Nothing to see here. bugs#monitoring

infrastructureau - Use standard date format, remove dead ftp4 mirror, mention downgrade from SVN to Git

peterjeremy (peterjeremy@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-18T04:43:19+00:00

Australian FreeBSD mirrors There are three different kind of mirrors: WWW, FTP and Git mirrors. The following reflects the status as of January 2022. WWW mirrors The last of the Australian WWW mirrors was decommissioned on 2016-06-30. FTP mirrors

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peterjeremy (peterjeremy@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-07T06:48:59+00:00