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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: Hackers ages
From:       Søren Schmidt <sos () DeepCore ! dk>
Date:       1996-01-31 21:00:46
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In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who wrote:
> 
> > > From: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com>
> > > With all the replies to this message(Re: intested!)
> > > It makes me wonder how old the average 'hacker' on the
> > > FreeBSD project is....
> > 
> > Nice to see all these old fossils still twitching :-)  39 here.  Interesting
> > to find out that the average FreeBSD'er age might be more than that other
> > OS.  
> 
> I guess I barely make it into the "adults only" section here, I have
> less than 2 weeks experience in being a "Thirty-something" :-)

Oh well, I'll go in between, I just turned 35 a month ago....

> Judging from the people I have met, it seems like FreeBSD is composed 
> of a large fraction of "grown-up" hackers, and that could easily explain
> the uncommonly strong focus we have on stability and performance.
 
Yeah, or we are getting to old to stay up all night doing all
those wonderfull things... (that somebody must fix the next day)

> The funny thing is that most of us were more interested in ice-cream
> and soda-pop when UNIX was started...

Og røde pølser !!

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Soren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
                Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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