FreeBSD v.4.6 (NOT) Released

A FreeBSD fan writes "FreeBSD 4.6 was just released. It's a relief to see it arrive after a myriad of delays and excuses caused it to be held back. As always, with every new version, FreeBSD becomes even faster and more secure than before. Please be sure to find a mirror here before downloading." Update: There's been an update to the story, please note that "something fishy is going on" Murray Stokely writes "We have gone over this for the past 2 releases now. I thought I had made it clear that you were not to publish information about FreeBSD being released until you saw a signed PGP message from one of the release engineers. Are you trying to help the spread of trojanned copies of FreeBSD? The release is not ready yet, and will not be until the front page of FreeBSD.org is updated and a PGP signed announcement message is posted to announce@FreeBSD.org." So I think we're all clear on how murray feels about this.

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Re:So I think we're all clear on how murray feels

[DiSKiLLeR]

Why were there so many magazines, websites, books about WindowsME (I think that's the one, I can't keep track of it anymore. I mean the successor of WindowsNT) before the product was on the shelves in the shops?

Um, the successor to Windows NT 4.0 was Windows NT 5.0, more commonly known as Windows 2000 when its name was renamed by the marketroids a few months before release.

Windows ME? That was the end of the line(tm), for that pile of shit known as Windows 3.1/95/98/98SE.

If your still slow, Win2000 (NT5.0) was followed by Windows XP (NT5.1), and Windows .NET (NT5.2). Windows .NET is the Server version of XP. When .NET comes out, people except a XP Second Edition with the same build number of .NET. (it'll be NT5.2 too)

Yes, all the different names, and now mismatched release of Server and Workstaton/Professional versions is very confusing. If MS has any consistency, it's its consistency in being inconsistent!

D.