FreeBSD 4.6 Release Delayed

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."

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so, when it comes out next week

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will it be LateBSD?

Re:Apple

[Ed Avis]

The web page you refer to doesn't make it clear whether Darwin is actually based on BSD, or just an implementation of the BSD process model, filesystem, and other APIs. The GNU system is designed to follow BSD Unix - does that mean that Debian should start appearing in the BSD section of Slashdot?

Well there is the mention of 'a customized version of 4.4 BSD-Lite2 kernel'. It's not immediately obvious how to transplant a monolithic kernel to run on top of Mach, but I guess we should take Apple's word for it that you really are running a BSD system: just one that happens to be hosted on Mach in some way. Maybe the objective test is: would a developer who is familiar with 4.4BSD, or FreeBSD or NetBSD, feel at home hacking the Darwin kernel?

Could anyone who knows more about this stuff clarify what is happening? I am assuming that JordanH is not _the_ Jordan H. :-P.

good point

[tps12]

Everyone, please note: BSD is not dying.