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Looks like FreeBSD's ports were updated about 5 and a half hours ago.

portupgrade -R subversion

CVS is part of the base system -- it was fixed in all the security branches early this morning.

Looks like FreeBSD's ports were updated about 5 and a half hours ago.

portupgrade -R subversion

CVS is part of the base system -- it was fixed in all the security branches early this morning.

Why don't you try FreeBSD Unix and/or Slackware Linux? Both are good choices if you're looking for something KISS-compliant.

www.freebsd.org
www.slackware.com

Where is the PPC port? I am amazed that I can't install freebsd on my mac.

Where is the PPC port? I am amazed that I can't install freebsd on my mac.

There is...another...

Meanwhile, it looks like they still haven't fixed the IDE disk geometry problems that have created problems for FreeBSD users worldwide for years:

FreeBSD bug search results

Just another example of how the open-source community has its priorities all wrong. Getting the OS to install smoothly should be a top priority. This issue should have been resolved years ago.

Several folks continue to work on the locking the network stack as noted elsewhere in this report. Outside of the network stack, the following items were worked on during the March and April time frame. Giant was pushed down in the fork, exit, and wait system calls as far as possible. Alan Cox (alc@) continues to lock the VM subsystem and push down Giant where appropriate.

Same Alan Cox of Linux kernel hacking fame? Woot! We've attracted him to the dark side... ;)

It amazes me how bad open source people are at marketing. Why make your project, which requires a huge amount of excellent thinking, the butt of jokes?

Why give a name to your open source project that will cause those who have less than complete technical knowledge to feel uncomfortable about adopting what you have done?

One question is, how bad can it get? Will there one day be a "Worthless" project? There is already a "Waste".

The funniest bad name for an open source project was "Killustrator". It's easy to see how the name was chosen. Everything in KDE began with a K, as much as possible, and Killustrator is an open source illustration program. It didn't seem to bother anyone that the first syllable of the name was "Kill". I can imagine the Killustrator author thinking how convenient it is that the word illustrator begins with a vowel; that makes it easy, just put a K at the beginning, and you have a name!

The name Killustrator gave everyone a million dollars worth of laughs, and did perhaps $10 million damage to Adobe's reputation when the CEO of Adobe overreacted, saying people would confuse Killustrator with Adobe Illustrator.

Do open source authors believe that there are only a few concepts available, not enough for everyone? Why copy the FreeBSD devil idea?

And Why did the FreeBSD project adopt that idea? I know FreeBSD is an excellent OS, and the favorite BSD for ISPs, but there are some who will be discouraged by the amateurish baby red devil marketing scheme.

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. Don't you wish the guy in this pic was you? Are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

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Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. Don't you wish the guy in this pic was you? Are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

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As a fellow FreeBSD nerd, I gotta back up tempest303. In my experience with installing both *BSD and Linux, I've found that although *BSD might be less self-explanatory, this only results in more published documentation.

I pull my hair out every time I install a new copy of linux. What happens is they invest so much time making the installer easy that they neglect to account for people who don't understand. BSD distros assume users will have questions, and thus put out rockin' documentation. It's my personal preference, of course, but I take for granted that I'll have a problem at some point. I'd rather have the authors spending their time explaining the nuts and bolts, rather than hiding them.

I hope they run FreeBSD in lieu of Windows NT. We've only had about four stalled destroyers due to that operating system. They'll probably end up running something like QNX or VxWorks, though, which are realtime operating systems. Still much better choices than Windows NT/2K/XP.

How about putting it into /usr/local/ as *BSDs do?

Read hier(1).

FFS. Quit playing the "guess a filesystem and pray my data survives" game.

Like real live operating systems.

for me, the answer was to move to BSD. the BSDs - openbsd, freebsd, and netbsd - are excellent, free (in both senses), totally community-driven, unencumbered with the sort of corporate bullcrap that's going on in much of the linux world, and they run all the same software that you've become accustomed to under linux.

serious unix users owe it to themselves to check these systems out; they really are superb - if you doubt it, poke around netcraft for a while and see for yourself.

cheers,

- pete g

And here I thought that it was the colour of the bikeshed that REALLY mattered...

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. Don't you wish the guy in this pic was you? Are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

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See the man-pages.

FreeBSD
Debian

On a serious note why doesn't free software start advertising on warez sites. Or better yet, someone should replace the Window startup screen with free software advertisements and then distribute the modified versions on Kazaa.

Here's the URL's to some other updates that'll "patch" things up:

• Apple
• FreeBSD
• Linux

Enjoy!

You mean like BSD init + rcorder, which predates Gentoo.

Upgrade your mission critical systems. Morons. ;)

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. Don't you wish the guy in this pic was you? Are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

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• www.redhat.com
• www.debian.org
• www.slackware.org
• www.freebsd.org
• www.openbsd.org

;-)

Get your patch for Microsoft here

Cool!! We've started a recursive loop here! :D

here

Yes, because no-one is going to make things if other people can just take a copy without paying.

I hate to sound condecending, but is there any way that you'd consider FreeBSD? Run FreeBSD against all of your reasons:

* I know that [OS X] it's built on *BSD

You could just go straight to the source, as it were, and use FreeBSD. If it was good enough for Apple, it'll be good enough for you.

* It's not Windows.

In fact, Windows is partly FreeBSD. It's been well documented that Microsoft copied the BSD network stack. Quite legally, I might add, because of the BSD licence.

* Experienced Linux users seem to be more interested in pissing-contests than helping new users.

Admittedly I've not run into many other FreeBSD users in my neck of the woods, but those that I have met are quite eager to help out beginners with problems. However, it has to be said: I've been using FreeBSD for about 4 years and have never had to ask anyone any questions. It's all in the documentation - if not, a quick Google search has resolved any issues I had.

What else am I gonna use?

FreeBSD. I'm still stuck with Windows on my primary computer because of games. But whenever I build a new computer, I move my old one right over to FreeBSD. Right now I have two FreeBSD 5.2.1 boxes and one Windows 2000 one.

My must-have applications won't run on it (or at least not without some geek-tweak),

That will change, with time. Until now, I can only recommend getting ahold of an old machine and playing around with FreeBSD for a while. No, FreeBSD is not an open-the-box-have-fun instant solution. But if you're not afraid of reading documentation, you should be just fine. A beginner can run through the installation program in an afternoon - and easily have a fully functional desktop with all the standard software they need, but it takes a couple of months of digging into the system before you become 100% comfortable with it.

http://www.freebsd.org
http://www.netbsd.org
http://www.openbsd.org
http://www.apple.com/macosx

Spray

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

Buy a new guide dog you blind fuck! Eugenia is clearly one of the hottest geek babes around, second only to Ceren.

If you're somebody who isn't afraid of something a little different, I would wholeheartedly recommend switching from RedHat Linux to FreeBSD.

FreeBSD runs anything that Linux does - including running KDE 3 & Gnome 2 beautifully, has 3D accelerated OpenGL on some hardware (NVIDIA in particular has official drivers). FreeBSD even has a Linux translation (not emulation) layer, where it can run Linux executables (including commercial games like Unreal Tournament) - sometimes faster than Linux itself.

That would be all well and good, nothing special compared to a Linux system. But I see there as being two benefits over and above Linux:

(1) A very coherent, organized mindset. Everything is where it should be - from the volume of comprehensive, easy to follow documentation - to the location of system files. One of the main weaknesses of Linux is the fragmented distribution base - something that's not present on FreeBSD. FreeBSD favors logical common sense over the "me too" insanity that Linux distros are sometimes affected with.

(2) The ports system. As useful software is released, it's integrated into the ports tree. The ports tree are a series of directories containing information about where to find - and how to compile sets of software. To install a port, use the installation program "/stand/sysinstall" to install from a pre-built binary, or move into the appropriate directory and type "make install" - and it does everything else for you.

Ports can be upgraded by running cvsup on the ports tree - then typing "portupgrade -ra" - and when you come back in the morning, you'll have all the latest versions of your software installed.

Anyway - my point is that FreeBSD is the best "Linux distribution" - except it isn't Linux. if you were to believe the trolls: "Netcraft reports that *BSD is dying". Except that Netcraft runs FreeBSD - as do Yahoo and a bunch of other companies. Hey, if it was good enough for Apple to take and make OSX on top of...

I've been running at least one machine on FreeBSD since the 3.x series, I'm now on FreeBSD 5.2 for all my Unix needs and think it's an absolutely awesome operating system. Some things I've run on FreeBSD:

* KDE 3 & Gnome 2.
* KDevelop, G++, Python, Scons, Subversion.
* Unreal Tournament 2003 (with full OpenGL acceleration).
* thttpd (Turbo Httpd) & the PostgreSQL database.
* OpenOffice & Mozilla.
* ssh & screen.

WHy not Linux?

because linux sucks

Linux Sucks! Use FreeBSD instead.

• gentoo linux
• FreeBSD
• bash
• vim
• perl
• ruby
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Apache
• PHP
• links www browser
• wget
• K Desktop Environment
• Mozilla Firefox
• xchat
• gimp
• Openoffice.org

Oh, I can't help myself...
No, install FreeBSD

The article is actually riskier IMO.

Firstly: he doesn't track the RELENG_4_9 branch, he tracks the STABLE branch (RELENG_4 - e.g. the latest of whatever is considered stable for Release 4) - which is more likely to break working stuff than the RELENG_4_9 branch which is FreeBSD 4.9 that has just the updates for security problems. Yes many ppl don't have problems with RELENG_4, but if your job and reputation is on the line - only use it if RELENG_4_9 doesn't work (hardware, required features etc).

Secondly: He skips the mergemaster -p step.

The way I recommend is what's been in the FreeBSD handbook for years:
Step 1: Synchronize your source Use cvsup. It's better. And track the RELENG branch.
e.g. cvsup mycustomcvsupfile
Where mycustomcvsup is like the stable-supfile but with the following tag instead of RELENG_4:
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9

Step 2: Building and Installing world

optional step before:
cp /etc/defaults/make.conf /etc/make.conf
edit /etc/make.conf accordingly (compile options, whether ports openssl/openssh overwrites the base openssl/openssh etc)

Then
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNELNAME
make installkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNELNAME
reboot and go to single user mode
mergemaster -p
(preliminary mergemaster stuff if things are too different between your config and what the new FreeBSD stuff is)
make installworld
mergemaster
(to merge what's new in /etc and stuff to what your local custom config is like)
reboot

***multiple machines.
Here's where you might do things differently.

Read this for some background: tracking for multiple machines

Now once you built everything, you don't have to rebuild it on a different machine if you are using a compatible architecture. For example you specify a 686 CPU in your make.conf and kernel config, you can only reuse it on stuff which supports 686 class CPUs.

I didn't bother with the NFS part (not applicable for some situations) - I just did the synchronize of src and ports and did the build on a fast machine with a fast connection.

The default was 4-stable which tracks the current stable source of Release 4. For production machines I recommend tracking RELENG releases and not STABLE.

Then build the kernel and sources.
cd /usr/src
make buildkernel KERNCONF=kernelformachineA
make buildkernel KERNCONF=kernelformachineB
make buildkernel KERNCONF=kernelformachineC
make buildworld
cd /usr/
Then tarball the results: tar -zcvf src.tar.gz src && tar -zcvf obj.tar.gz obj && tar -zcvf ports.tar.gz ports

Then I copied the tarballs (via CDR) to the slow machine which did not have a cvsup connection (not allowed by firewall policy etc)

Then installed the results on the machine.
cd /usr
rm -rf src obj ports
tar -zxvf src.tar.gz && tar -zxvf ports.tar.gz && tar -zxvf obj.tar.gz

Then I ensured that the /etc/make.conf was correct etc.
Then: make installkernel KERNCONF=therelevantkernel && make installworld.

Note: to save the trouble of building desired ports software on the slow machine you have to make packages on the fast machine.
e.g.
cd /usr/ports/blahblah/softwarename
make package
---
You should also check out freebsd-update.

freebsd-update is more like binary updating of stuff affected by security issues.

Redhat is simpler on one hand and more complex on the other- sure you can ftp all the rpms and run a freshen. But it's harder to be sure everything is really consistent

The article is actually riskier IMO.

Firstly: he doesn't track the RELENG_4_9 branch, he tracks the STABLE branch (RELENG_4 - e.g. the latest of whatever is considered stable for Release 4) - which is more likely to break working stuff than the RELENG_4_9 branch which is FreeBSD 4.9 that has just the updates for security problems. Yes many ppl don't have problems with RELENG_4, but if your job and reputation is on the line - only use it if RELENG_4_9 doesn't work (hardware, required features etc).

Secondly: He skips the mergemaster -p step.

The way I recommend is what's been in the FreeBSD handbook for years:
Step 1: Synchronize your source Use cvsup. It's better. And track the RELENG branch.
e.g. cvsup mycustomcvsupfile
Where mycustomcvsup is like the stable-supfile but with the following tag instead of RELENG_4:
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9

Step 2: Building and Installing world

optional step before:
cp /etc/defaults/make.conf /etc/make.conf
edit /etc/make.conf accordingly (compile options, whether ports openssl/openssh overwrites the base openssl/openssh etc)

Then
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNELNAME
make installkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNELNAME
reboot and go to single user mode
mergemaster -p
(preliminary mergemaster stuff if things are too different between your config and what the new FreeBSD stuff is)
make installworld
mergemaster
(to merge what's new in /etc and stuff to what your local custom config is like)
reboot

***multiple machines.
Here's where you might do things differently.

Read this for some background: tracking for multiple machines

Now once you built everything, you don't have to rebuild it on a different machine if you are using a compatible architecture. For example you specify a 686 CPU in your make.conf and kernel config, you can only reuse it on stuff which supports 686 class CPUs.

I didn't bother with the NFS part (not applicable for some situations) - I just did the synchronize of src and ports and did the build on a fast machine with a fast connection.

The default was 4-stable which tracks the current stable source of Release 4. For production machines I recommend tracking RELENG releases and not STABLE.

Then build the kernel and sources.
cd /usr/src
make buildkernel KERNCONF=kernelformachineA
make buildkernel KERNCONF=kernelformachineB
make buildkernel KERNCONF=kernelformachineC
make buildworld
cd /usr/
Then tarball the results: tar -zcvf src.tar.gz src && tar -zcvf obj.tar.gz obj && tar -zcvf ports.tar.gz ports

Then I copied the tarballs (via CDR) to the slow machine which did not have a cvsup connection (not allowed by firewall policy etc)

Then installed the results on the machine.
cd /usr
rm -rf src obj ports
tar -zxvf src.tar.gz && tar -zxvf ports.tar.gz && tar -zxvf obj.tar.gz

Then I ensured that the /etc/make.conf was correct etc.
Then: make installkernel KERNCONF=therelevantkernel && make installworld.

Note: to save the trouble of building desired ports software on the slow machine you have to make packages on the fast machine.
e.g.
cd /usr/ports/blahblah/softwarename
make package
---
You should also check out freebsd-update.

freebsd-update is more like binary updating of stuff affected by security issues.

Redhat is simpler on one hand and more complex on the other- sure you can ftp all the rpms and run a freshen. But it's harder to be sure everything is really consistent

The article is actually riskier IMO.

Firstly: he doesn't track the RELENG_4_9 branch, he tracks the STABLE branch (RELENG_4 - e.g. the latest of whatever is considered stable for Release 4) - which is more likely to break working stuff than the RELENG_4_9 branch which is FreeBSD 4.9 that has just the updates for security problems. Yes many ppl don't have problems with RELENG_4, but if your job and reputation is on the line - only use it if RELENG_4_9 doesn't work (hardware, required features etc).

Secondly: He skips the mergemaster -p step.

The way I recommend is what's been in the FreeBSD handbook for years:
Step 1: Synchronize your source Use cvsup. It's better. And track the RELENG branch.
e.g. cvsup mycustomcvsupfile
Where mycustomcvsup is like the stable-supfile but with the following tag instead of RELENG_4:
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9

Step 2: Building and Installing world

optional step before:
cp /etc/defaults/make.conf /etc/make.conf
edit /etc/make.conf accordingly (compile options, whether ports openssl/openssh overwrites the base openssl/openssh etc)

Then
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNELNAME
make installkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNELNAME
reboot and go to single user mode
mergemaster -p
(preliminary mergemaster stuff if things are too different between your config and what the new FreeBSD stuff is)
make installworld
mergemaster
(to merge what's new in /etc and stuff to what your local custom config is like)
reboot

***multiple machines.
Here's where you might do things differently.

Read this for some background: tracking for multiple machines

Now once you built everything, you don't have to rebuild it on a different machine if you are using a compatible architecture. For example you specify a 686 CPU in your make.conf and kernel config, you can only reuse it on stuff which supports 686 class CPUs.

I didn't bother with the NFS part (not applicable for some situations) - I just did the synchronize of src and ports and did the build on a fast machine with a fast connection.

The default was 4-stable which tracks the current stable source of Release 4. For production machines I recommend tracking RELENG releases and not STABLE.

Then build the kernel and sources.
cd /usr/src
make buildkernel KERNCONF=kernelformachineA
make buildkernel KERNCONF=kernelformachineB
make buildkernel KERNCONF=kernelformachineC
make buildworld
cd /usr/
Then tarball the results: tar -zcvf src.tar.gz src && tar -zcvf obj.tar.gz obj && tar -zcvf ports.tar.gz ports

Then I copied the tarballs (via CDR) to the slow machine which did not have a cvsup connection (not allowed by firewall policy etc)

Then installed the results on the machine.
cd /usr
rm -rf src obj ports
tar -zxvf src.tar.gz && tar -zxvf ports.tar.gz && tar -zxvf obj.tar.gz

Then I ensured that the /etc/make.conf was correct etc.
Then: make installkernel KERNCONF=therelevantkernel && make installworld.

Note: to save the trouble of building desired ports software on the slow machine you have to make packages on the fast machine.
e.g.
cd /usr/ports/blahblah/softwarename
make package
---
You should also check out freebsd-update.

freebsd-update is more like binary updating of stuff affected by security issues.

Redhat is simpler on one hand and more complex on the other- sure you can ftp all the rpms and run a freshen. But it's harder to be sure everything is really consistent

> there is a security flaw you release Linux RI for 2.6.6 - v1.0.1 Instead of Linux 2.6.7.
> If the only way to correct the flaw is by changing some interface then you have to
> issue Linux 2.6.7 with Linux RI for 2.6.7 - v1.0.0 and deprecate Linux 2.6.6.
>
> That way you can update your system while changing the minimum and not adding
> new code unnecessarily (after all isn't that one of the problems with Windows
> Service Packs?).

FreeBSD has that already - security fixes are applied to the RELENG branch of a RELEASED version.

You can track a released version (e.g. 4.4-RELEASE) and then track RELENG_4.4 for security patches.

As described here

I've already been thanked.

Now I'm saying "you're welcome."

There are other currency systems than "money", you know.

You just can't take *BSD seriously when its fronted by losers like these. Would you buy software from them? I don't think so! You BSD groupies need to find some sexy girls like her ! I mean just look at this girl ! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox . As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx . I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass ?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Lt. Gay Ellis you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of Linux if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight deamon or a gay looking goat ! Don't you wish you could get one of these ? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty !

Join the campaign for more cute open source purple-haired moonbabes today!
--

Steak takes a backseat to burgers as far as market share is concerned, not that I'm relating OSX to a fine rib eye mind you.

Hold it! STOP! WAIT!!

The funding goal has already been reached!

He's actually OVERFUNDED by now. :-)

and she can turn around and disable spatial nautilus.. just like they did. fun fun ;)

According to the fundraising page (see cheesy HTML bar graphs here) 98.7% of the goal for 6 months funding has already been reached.