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FreeBSD 5.0 Delayed One Year

Posted by timothy on from the measure-twice-cut-once dept.

Satai writes: "FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE has been delayed a full year, until November of 2002. The reasons included a lack of support for SMPng - including a developer fall-off ratio of 15 to 1 - a desire to finish the PowerPC/Sparc64/IA64 architectures, and a general desire to robustly test the additions. The economic downturn even makes an appearance in the announcement."

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  1. Whew! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought it said FreeBSD 1.0 delayed for five years! What a relief!

    "Where's my peanuts?" said the parakeet.

  2. Re:This isn't all bad news - quite the contrary by Jon+Peterson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, it's pretty bad news if you are a manager in a company and fought for using BSD.

    Boss - "So, are we on schedule to start rolling out the 4-way file servers in July next year?"

    Me - "Um, no, that will have to wait until, maybe, Jan 2003".

    Boss - "Errr, why's that? You said to me last quarter that the new SMP stuff would be ready by the end of this year? Surely 6 months is plenty of safety margin?"

    Me - "Actually, the release date slipped by 12 months. I just found out now. I think it was due to most of the developers leaving the project."

    Boss - "What?!?!?!! They fired 14 kernel developers?! I thought you said this organisation wouldn't be affected by the economy, on account of not being an evil capitalist outfit that only cares about their quarterly results!"

    Me - "Yeah, well, no-one got fired, it's more like, they, uh, just kind of stopped doing any work. I guess maybe they got bored."

    Boss - "OK, that does it. We're going with Solaris x86, I don't care what you say."

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  3. No, the real reason is... by jsse · · Score: 3, Funny

    The reasons included a lack of support for SMPng - including a developer fall-off ratio of 15 to 1 - a desire to finish the PowerPC/Sparc64/IA64 architectures, and a general desire to robustly test the additions. The economic downturn even makes an appearance in the announcement."

    You didn't take Butterfly Effect into account.

    Failing to take into acount a butterfly flapping its wings in the country called Elbonia could cause the delay of its release up to several month, even a year.

  4. Re:15 to 1 ? by Steeltoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really? Personally, I lean to the hypothesis that the BSD-folks got abducted by aliens. Surely, their talent and philosophies can be better appreciated in a more developed society.

    - Steeltoe

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  5. Re:15 to 1 ? by tmark · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would we prefer they strip out everything that isn't ready, and released 5.0 in two months?
    Then we could call it RedHat 8.0.