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A Nostalgic Look Back at FreeBSD Days in Bologna
Original: Even With All That Mess Bologna, 2003. A messy room, a graduation approaching, a FreeBSD Handbook gone missing. Twenty-t
An Italian software enthusiast is reminiscing about 2003 in Bologna, recalling a messy student room, an approaching graduation, and a missing FreeBSD Handbook. Writing twenty-three years later, he reflects on his early days with the open-source operating system and what that period of his life meant to him.
Why now: Personal retrospectives on early open-source computing resonate with a technical community nostalgic for the early 2000s.
BolognaFreeBSDStefano Marinelli
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- Even With All That Mess Bologna, 2003. A messy room, a graduation approaching, a FreeBSD Handbook gone missing. Twenty-three years later, I look back. https://my-notes.dragas.net/2026/10/27/even-with-all-that-mess/ # MyNotes # Life # Memories # OpenSource · stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it · 1
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