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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. Not very good news, nevertheless... by Noryungi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As others have pointed out, it's good that the FreeBSD developers have decided to push the deadline by several (14) months.

    But I can't help but wonder if the FreeBSD "core" isn't trying to do too much with too little.

    SMPng is great. Porting FreeBSD to dozens of architecture may not be -- I thought NetBSD was the one group that was supposed to focus on portability? Stick with Intel CPUs, guys! =)

    Nevertheless, a magnificent OS, and one that I use very often...

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