FreeBSD XP^H^H 4.5 available now

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FreeBSD XP^H^H 4.5 available now

Posted by Nik on Tuesday January 29, 2002 @10:24PM from the this-time,-with-feeling dept.

The_Rift was one of many who wrote in with this news: "The official mail has gone out to the FreeBSD-announce mailing list announcing the availability of Freebsd 4.5. Check your local mirrors for the ISOs.". The release notes have all the details, but take it from me -- this one is worth it just for the TCP/IP performance improvements by Matt Dillon and others. Kudos to Murray, Bruce, and the rest of the release engineering team.

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This is a very lame joke. by Eskimo+Bob · 2002-01-29 22:40 · Score: 2, Funny

Did you know that a simple name change could get more people to try FreeBSD, or at least get 'em interested in it. FreeBDSM... Sure, they'd all be perferts, but hell... a user's a user. Lame joke, I know. but I warned you.

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1. Re:This is a very lame joke. by Basje · 2002-01-29 22:42 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Gives a whole new meaning to the term 'power user'. Lame again, I admit
  
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2. Re:This is a very lame joke. by stevey · 2002-01-29 23:37 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Not to mention (re)booting, powering down, and hot-mounting USB toys ..
FreeBSD 4.x STABLE branch. by AntipodesTroll · 2002-01-29 23:11 · Score: 4, Funny

It turns out it is a good thing that 5.0-CURRENT was frozen, and they concentrated on 4.X STABLE. It means I dont have to worry about changing to a new 5.X branch.

It was kinda annoying that the FreeBSD guys obsoleted 3.X so quickly, they had only really just fixed the glaring issues with the ATA driver corruption problem and other important issues (that affected my use of FreeBSD 3.4 for fileserving) and then they went and obsoleted it.

If 4.X stays as the most current tree in STABLE for another year, hell, another 2 years, I for one will be happy. I dont see the 1-year cycle for major number increments as much really other than ticking over the most siginificant version-numbers. Stuff that gets MFC'd from CURRENT is usually good enough for STABLE, Look at Linus, he dosent feel a need to tick over the major version numbers for Linux. I'd stay with FreeBSD 4.x if it goes all the way to (say) 4.7 or 4.8.

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Damnit.. by Night0wl · 2002-01-30 00:48 · Score: 3, Funny

I had just finished the first ISO.
I was about the finish the second ISO (96%)
and I had 3-5% on each of the third and fourth ISO's

and then they release 4.5... damnit...

*deletes 1+ gb of data, and begins again*

And this is all at a top of 15KB/s. And I can assure you it never got that high.

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Computational Madness in a round package.
Linus and vers. numbers by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-30 01:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Linus doesn't actually *DO* anything worth bumping up the numbers.

2.x aout
3.x elf
4.x cam
5.x new smp

Linux - 2.4 - the kernel of pain
What will 2.5 be? The kernel of torment?
Then 2.7 The kernel of icy death?
3.0 The Kernel of eternal buring flesh?
@.8 could just be the kernel of itchy rash.
Speaking of Etch-a-Sketchs by infinii · 2002-01-30 07:01 · Score: 2, Funny

About the time when Palm Pilots were taking off. Every manager and anyone important enough in our company started using them. Every meeting consisted of higher ups scribbling away on their Palms or reading email, avant-go, etc.

Well as a joke, I borrowed an etch-a-sketch and in the middle of a meeting. I pulled it out of my briefcase with the straightest face I could put on. Ignoring everyone, I started scribbling with it and the meeting just fell apart from there. The person speaking tried to ignore it and contine but the laughter from the rest was overwhelming.