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FreeBSD v.4.6 (NOT) Released

Posted by chrisd on from the thats-one-pointy-pitchfork dept.

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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  1. Re:So I think we're all clear on how murray feels by chrisd · · Score: 0, Troll
    I honestly don't think it's that simple. Why are release notes up for it? Why did I get 10 submissions celebrating it's release? So, oops, sorry, really don't do it for me, no, not yet.

    Chris

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  2. Re:something fishy? by Arandir · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yup, something fishy. Chris got all these submissions saying that FreeBSD-4.6 had been released. They could not have all been wrong. Maybe one or two, but not all of them. I mean, at least one of them had to be right. Something's fishy over at FreeBSD. I think they're just trying to make Slashdork look bad.

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  3. Fish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    To: chrisd and the rest of the /. crew.
    Subject: Fish

    There is nothing fishy going on, you are just fucking morons who can't do like you've been asked.

    Thanks