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FreeBSD 4.6
An Anonymous Coward writes "FreeBSD 4.6 is out! The announcement is out, and so are the release notes.
Have fun, and thanks to the FreeBSD team!" The announcement has all the mirror information, etc.
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YHBT. YHL. HAND.
FreeBSD is not stable. This is a legend. My company has a bunch of FreeBSD web servers, and they are crashing like hell. Remove the keyboard, plug it in again, and it doesn't work any more, wow.
And no, FreeBSD isn't fast. The filesystem is damn slow, and unreliable, even with softupdates. And don't expect to have a lot of files in the same directory, you would hurt it.
Linux is way better. Does FreeBSD have ReiserFS, XFS and Intermezzo? No. Does FreeBSD handle SMP? Very poorly (one giant lock, ahaahah, how scalable) . Is FreeBSD portable? No, this is the least portable of all BSD. Is FreeBSD standard conformant? No, Linux is way more POSIX conformant, the GNU Libc is extremely modern and complete.
And what about the ports collection? Yes, "ports", because they are just some lucky Linux software that were ported to FreeBSD. They need experimental tweaks to work, while any free software will work on Linux.
Internationalisation? Forget it.
Ease of installation? Good joke. FreeBSD installer looks like a Slackware installer 7 years ago.
Multimedia? Another good joke. Where's Alsa? Ah yeah, there's OSS, but it's commercial, and the API sucks compared to Alsa's.
Clustering software? On FreeBSD? Ahahaah no sorry, if you want serious clusters, you have to use Linux.
Great packaging system? No. If you like the way it downloads and compiles stuff, try Gentoo Linux, and you will realize that FreeBSD packaging system is really poor.
FreeBSD will die. It was fun 10 years ago. But we're in 2002, and it's just ridiculous nowadays.
But is it possible to "upgrade" from 4.4 to OpenBSD?
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