Add an "ln memoriam" entry for Bruce D. Evans (bde@).

The text was provided by phk@, with only minor changes
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<itemizedlist xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
<listitem>
<para>Bruce D. Evans (1991 - 2019; RIP 2019)</para>
<para>Bruce was a programming giant who made FreeBSD his
home.</para>
<para>Back before FreeBSD and Linux there was Minix, a toy "unix"
written by Andy Tannenbaum, released in 1987, sold with complete
sources on three floppy disks, for $99.</para>
<para>Bruce ported Minix to the i386 around 1989.</para>
<para>Linus Torvalds used Minix/386 to develop his own kernel, and
Bruce was the first person he thanked in the
release-announcement.</para>
<para>When Bill Jolitz released 386BSD 0.1 in 1992, Bruce was
listed as a contributor.</para>
<para>Bruce co-founded the FreeBSD project, and served on core.0,
but he was never partisan, and over the years many other
projects have benefitted from his patches, advice and
wisdom.</para>
<para>Code reviews from Bruce came in three flavours, "mild",
"brucified" and "brucifiction", but they were never personal: It
was always only about the code, the mistakes, the sloppy
thinking, the missing historical context, the ambiguous
standards - and the style(9) transgressions.</para>
<para>Because Bruce gave more code reviews than anybody else in
the history of the FreeBSD project, the commit logs hide the
true scale of his impact until you pay attention to
"Submitted by", "Reviewed by" and "Pointed out by".</para>
<para>Being hard of hearing, Bruce did not attend
conferences.</para>
<para>The notable exception was the 1999 BSDcon in California,
where his core team colleagues greeted him with "We're not
worthy!" in Wayne's World fashion.</para>
<para>Twenty years later we're still not.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Kurt Lidl (2015 - 2019; RIP 2019)</para>