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FreeBSD XP^H^H 4.5 available now

Posted by Nik on 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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  1. Like they say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    third time's a charm! ;-)
    way to go, slashdot.

  2. Linux AHOLE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are a MotherFucker^H^H^H^H^H^HSucker for posting that subject line - arsehole.

  3. Only one problem... by ReluctantBadger · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    There is only one problem with FreeBSD... It's not OpenBSD!!! Is Dave here?
    No.
    Dave?
    There's no-one called Dave here!
    YOU'RE MY WIFE NOW!

  4. first post by /Idiot\ · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    go on, i've never done one before :-)

    Everyone has one first post in them...

    --
    /dev/Idiot/
  5. Re:Nevada Boxing Commission SUCKS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No. It is not racism. It is telling a no good
    fuckwit that he cannot expect proper treatment
    from anyone.

    You idiots that throw the racism card every
    chance yo get make me sick.

  6. Firewall? by dorward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm trying to find something to replace my Smoothwall instalation.

    How does FBsd rate when it comes to ISDN?
    Will it run OK on a Pentium 90 with 16MB of RAM?

  7. Thanks Matt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I really liked Matt Dillon in the movie "rumble fish". Now I wonder why doesn't he join linux development and help in that direction. I remember old curtis when he used to tell me "Son, when you have one stick you can break it, but when you have multiple sticks together you can't". Obviously, the linux folks can't go to BSD because nobody likes the "Berkley Board Of Directors".

    Frans Crappola

    1. Re:Thanks Matt by Graspee_Leemoor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      That's "Berkley Beard of Directors"

      graspee

  8. The 'this-time,-with-feeling-dept.'? by Alexius · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As a rabid Buffy Fan, I respectfully request this is changed to 'Once more with feeling', just because it would have made me laugh.

    --
    `Lex - Find Me Here: Text Appeal
  9. +3 Informative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wonderful troll! That's the first time I've seen a goat troll get +3 in a while.

    1. Re:+3 Informative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Shows you how much care and attention the idiot moderators pay ... yuck, yuck. More goats please.

  10. Re:Native JAVA by DrSkwid · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cripes, go drop an E and cheer the fuck up

    --
    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
  11. Re:Damnit.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    are you one of those dang-i-was-leeching-the-current-release-and-now-TH AT trolls or are you just unbelievably stupid?

    I dunno, who's the Anonymous Coward?

  12. Re:syncookies? only now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    why didn't you just cut and paste the "BSD is dying" troll and get it over with? :-p

  13. Re:FreeBSD 4.x STABLE branch. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Chicken Little has confirmed: The sky really is falling

    Yet another crippling bombshell hit Terra today when recently NASA confirmed that the sky is falling. Coming on the heels of the latest JPLsurvey which plainly states that the atmosphere has lost volume, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The stratosphere is most endangered of them all, having lost 1 angstrom of thickness over the past millenium.

    Fact: The sky is falling.
    Do you think the sky is really falling? That's what I think of your BSD troll... :-p
  14. Re:Where is the "BSD is dying" clown? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Apparently all the clueless and humor-impaired moderators are wide awake... :-p

  15. Re:FreeBSD 4.x STABLE branch. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot never ceases to amaze me; I can't begin to imagine why this post was modded "Funny"...

  16. Re:Cool topic by Patrick+Dung · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oops
    ^H is backspace..

  17. Re:Why call it XP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought there was a troll under this bridge. Let me toss you a couple cases of AOL disks to keep you busy

  18. Re:Well, we already have Midori Linux by mickwd · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "I'm just a sweet Transmeta from Transexual, Transylvania....."

    Or something like that.

  19. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Forgive my inability to comprehend nit wit, I mean leet speak. But, I don't get it. What's up with the ^H^H^H stuff?

  20. Greatest Of All Time? by davidhan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    is that what GOAT stands for? Don't call it a comeback.

  21. Re:BSD is *dying*! by fdisk3hs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hello, you are my new bitch.