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    OpenBSD Foundation 2014 fundraising campaign goal reached openbsd marc.info
    jcs avatar via jcs 4 years ago | cached | 8 comments

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    jcs avatar jcs 4 years ago | link

    Tangentially related, why does The FreeBSD Foundation need a million dollars a year?

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      trousers avatar trousers 4 years ago | link

      I believe before last year (i.e. 2012), their fundraising goals were significantly smaller. Perhaps they thought that people stopped donating once the goals were met, so they raised the ceiling.

      As to what the money is used for: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents scroll down to “financials” and you will find this linke for the 2013 budget

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        brycied00d avatar brycied00d 4 years ago | link

        To support their larger base image and ISOs? (I’ve always wondered why the heck FreeBSD’s install media is so much bigger…)

        OpenBSD: (network install) cd54.iso 6.3 MB, (local install, full base) install54.iso 216 MB

        FreeBSD: (network install) FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso 195 MB, (local install) FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 564 MB

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          jcs avatar jcs 4 years ago | link

          All those ANSI codes in their curses installer take up a lot of room.

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        journeysquid avatar journeysquid 4 years ago | link

        I’ll donate as soon as bzip2 is included in base.

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          jcs avatar jcs 4 years ago | link

          but vax!

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            tedu avatar tedu 4 years ago | link

            http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/cpan/Compress-Raw-Bzip2/bzip2-src/

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              duclare avatar duclare 4 years ago | link

              But why? If you want something that’s fast and everywhere, you have gzip.

              If you want to trade speed for tight compression, you go for lzma, xz, etc..

              Bzip2 is slow and doesn’t compress quite so well. Worst of both worlds.