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FreeBSD 4.5 NOT Released (Updated)

Posted by timothy on from the congratulations-to-all-involved dept.

Jordon Hubbard writes: "The latest release in the FreeBSD 4.X branch has been released after an extensive release engineering process. Important bugfixes for the TCP stack and NFS are included in this release. You can view the release notes and find a mirror here." Update: 01/24 21:42 GMT by Hemos :Fake submissions, not really released. Yah. Comedic value provided for the day.

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  1. Twelve Days of Codefreeze by kenneth_martens · · Score: 5, Funny
    On the very bottom of the FreeBSD 4.5 Release page, there the following: "It's been pointed out that this table is rather boring. Bruce Mah gave a slightly more interesting rendition of the 12 days of Code- Freeze. ".

    An excerpt from that poem:

    > As promised we've now entered the code freeze for RELENG_4. Please
    > submit all MFC requests to re@FreeBSD.org before committing to this
    > branch.

    For your hacking and/or holiday pleasure, I give you: "The Twelve Days of Code-Freeze"

    Sung to the tune of:"The Twelve Days of Christmas"
    Words by:bmah@freebsd.org

    On the first day of code-freeze, my -hackers gave to me:
    A bad patch in the src/ tree.

    On the second day of code-freeze, my -hackers gave to me:
    Two flamewars,
    And a bad patch in the src/ tree.

    On the third day of code-freeze, my -hackers gave to me:
    Three bikesheds,
    Two flamewars,
    And a bad patch in the src/ tree.

    On the fourth day of code-freeze, my -hackers gave to me:
    Four broken worlds,
    Three bikesheds,
    Two flamewars,
    And a bad patch in the src/ tree.

    Check this page for the rest.
  2. It's not dead! by La1d · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is now official - Slashdot has confirmed: *BSD is alive and thriving

    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered AC crowd when Slashdot reported that FreeBSD has released a new version. This comes right on the heels of freeBSD going home, when Wind River and FreeBSD Mall Inc. published a joint press-release today announcing the sale of Wind River's FreeBSD assets to Bob Bruce, founder of Walnut Creek CDROM--the company that in 1993 first published FreeBSD. This was the company that almost a decade ago declared to the world that *BSD is alive and thriving!

    The FreeBSD Mall web site has been redesigned, with many new products, including FreeBSD CDs, books, polo shirts, microfiber jackets, boxer shorts, bumper stickers, lapel pins, several different styles of t-shirts, mouse pads, travel mugs, buttons, sticker sheets, plate logos, denim shirts, CD cases, and paid support options.

    FreeBSD and its close relatives NetBSD and OpenBSD all are open-source projects, meaning that anyone can see, change and distribute the underlying source code.

    With the main FreeBSD distribution back in the hands of the record holding Free Software distributor Bob Bruce, trolls posting that *BSD is dead had better keep the "anonymous" in "anonymous coward."

    --
    -- La1d, killed by a newt, while helpless.
  3. Re:Erm, OK, this is bizarre... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why's everbody always picking on you?

    I remember one day at Fry's there was a sign saying "Linux Day! Guest speaker Jordan Hubbard!"

    I just wanted to curl up and die after that. So I attended the Video Conference, and some dumb lady kept bugging you abou getting her Epson printer working in Linux. I was about ready to tell her to shut the "F" up.

    FreeBSD is a great OS, and I wish OSX the best of luck in bettering the computer world.

  4. Re:Erm, OK, this is bizarre... by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally, my first name is spelled "Jordan", like the river. A sure sign that this was a hoax. :)

    Well, I don't know. That's what gave it validity, I thought. If it had been spelt correctly, on the other hand, there's no way I'd believe it!

    --
    "If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
  5. Don't you mean... by sulli · · Score: 4, Funny

    from the yhbt-yhl-hand dept. ?

    --

    sulli
    RTFJ.
  6. I just killed my 4.4 download, you bastards! by warpSpeed · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was half way done with a 4.4 ISO download. Saw this, said "whoohoo", clicked cancel. Then I read it was a fake.... yeah real funny.

  7. Re:*Linux is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    BSD is dying! If you look at the number of curly braces in the code you'll see that linux and solaris have a lot more. Why? Because they make more code blocks. If FreeBSD has 2.03x10^5 '{' characters, and OpenBSD, because they're so anal, have twice as many, then that means that *BSD only has a few hundred thousand when you put them all together. This, coupled with the fact that the Taliban have collapsed and NATO is still together leads one to the unavoidable conclusion that Windows is dying!

    I mean, BSD.

  8. News verification team, come in please... by Vexler · · Score: 3, Funny

    So I guess the earlier /. news article about the Irishman solving the zero-point energy problem was actually true? *grin*

  9. Yeah. The oh well guy again. by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm running FreeBSD 6.8-RELEASE, and it's the greatest piece of software ever made. As an operating system, it's a lean, mean serving machine. For example, my 386 SX with 4 megs of RAM typically serves about 10,000 FTP users simultaneously. And X Window System, running KDE and GNOME simultaneously, along with about a thousand highly intensive applications, continue to run and function with perfect responsiveness. In fact, I could probably run twice the load, and it would make everything execute even faster.

    "This is because I'm from the future. I came here in a time machine that you invented. Now I need your help to get back to the year 1985."

    "Hmmm... Mr. Anderson. You disappoint me."

    "You can't scare me with this gestapo crap. I know my rights, I want my fluxcapacitor back."

    "Well, tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a fluxcapacitor, if you're, unable, to flux?"

    ***** OK! OK! JUST KIDDING! *****

    The release of FreeBSD 4.5 is just around the corner. The good folks in core are doing a marvelous job, and I am confident that this release will be the best yet, and that as always, the next one following this will be even better.

    As it is, amazing improvements have been made to the system since 4.4-RELEASE. I know because that's what my production servers are running right now, but for my desktop, I like to use -STABLE, which is pretty darn good.

    Oh well.