Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

FreeBSD 4.6 Release Delayed

Posted by michael on from the when-it's-ready dept.

Dan writes "Bruce A. Mah from the FreeBSD Release Engineering team announced that due to some late-breaking issues, 4.6 will be released about a week later than originally planned."

2 of 223 comments (clear)

  1. Lack of nerds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It seems to me that what we have is a lack of nerds here. Everytime we see a FreeBSD topic, 50% of all posts are pure junk.
    Now it seems to me that we mostly have wannabe nerds here. I'd say that if you truly are a geek, you would not be afraid to install another OS. In fact it would be something you would thing was fun. "Hey another OS/version, lets check it out just for the fun of it".
    Personally I like to install all kind of OS, yes I even have tried to install M$ servers just to check them out, not that I would like to run one. Playing with all kinds of operating systems and making it run of strange hardware is fun to me.

    But maybe the people truly into *BSD might not post here at all because all the responses to their posts most likely will be met with a useless reply.
    It's not that I don't like Slashdot, but why are the view and posts so narrowminded? It seems to me that the topics that gets the most posts(besides from M$ bashing), are the ones where you can apply some kind of generic opinion and without any deep insight into the subject. But maybe this is how it always has been and it's just me who are wrong.

  2. This happens in industry, too by Rommel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to work at VERITAS Software. They routinely delayed release dates on products if quality wasn't good enough.

    There is a problem with this, though. Customers made business plans based upon planned release dates. When those release dates slipped, the customer's plans were upset. This could leave them in awkward situations because they couldn't do certain things without features present in newer versions of the software. As a consequence, we always dreaded a slipping of the release date because it would provoke great annoyance from the customers.

    Customers want it right and on-time. If they have to pick between those two, they will select to have it right, but will not be happy about it!