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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. release notes by Phexro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    looks like the links on that page are broken, and it seems that 4.5-release hasn't made it's way out to all the ftp sites yet.

    in the mean time, here are the relnotes for 4.5-rc3 i386 alpha

  2. Re:What is a "bikeshed"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The color of a bikeshed is what 99% of all Linux developers spend their time worrying about.

  3. Journalistic Accuracy by Cato+the+Elder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, which is worse:

    Making a few errors and not featuring corrections so prominently

    Making so many errors that are so basic that people find out within minutes, but at least you post corrections fast too.

    Just a thought, vis a vis michaels article yesterday.

  4. Re:Erm, OK, this is bizarre... by krappie · · Score: 4, Insightful
    What's bizarre is not so much that this is hoax, but that a website managed by such incompetent idiots can be so successful.

    What's bizarre is not so much that this website is so successful, but that idiots who frequent it and post can complain about how successful it is.