FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 10, 2002 @04:48AM from the now-with-improved-goodness dept.

Triumph The Insult C writes "FreeBSD 4.7 is out. Here is the announcement. New items include an option for IPFW2, a number of disk controller updates, security updates, and some changes to userland. Remember, please use a mirror." Among other things, the release announcement says: "FreeBSD 4.7 also incorporates all of the security and bug fixes from 4.6.2 (released in August 2002), including several ATA-related bugfixes, updates for OpenSSL and OpenSSH, and fixes to address several security advisories." And here are the release notes.

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Re:What is the relevance of FreeBSD today? by bugg · 2002-10-10 06:27 · Score: 2, Flamebait

it spawned the opensource movement
Revisionist history indeed. BSD (in the form of Unix patchkits) were available as "open source" when Linus was still in diapers.

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