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