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FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE

Posted by timothy on 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.

8 of 336 comments (clear)

  1. upgrade by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've been waiting for an upgrade.

  2. My personal favorite addition... by splume · · Score: 5, Funny

    nice(1) now uses the -n option to specify the ``niceness'' of the utility being run.

    Doesn't that just sound like a happy command?

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    Who is John Galt?
  3. Re:What is the relevance of FreeBSD today? by MadFarmAnimalz · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is, I suspect, a little like thinking that it might be nice to affix Pamela Anderson's knockers to Natalie Portman's front side.

    Nice idea, in other words, but perhaps not something modern medicine is up to just yet.

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  4. Re:What is the relevance of FreeBSD today? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny



    Yeah! Imagine if some wackos came out with other versions of BSD, they might name them openBSD, NetBSD, NotLinuxBSD, OS X, etc.

    Good thing there's just one BSD. Imagine if they followed Linux's bad example!

  5. No thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I get lots of free BSD's already with Windows

  6. Re:What is the relevance of FreeBSD today? by Gendou · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is, I suspect, a little like thinking that it might be nice to affix Pamela Anderson's knockers to Natalie Portman's front side.

    Blasphemy. This outrage will not go unanswered. Have you no concept of balance, symmetry, proportion, applied aesthetics, and physical/spiritual curvature??

  7. Somewhat by Multiple+Sanchez · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Your husband is somewhat dead."

    "Sir -- I got your daughter somewhat pregnant."

    I think you should reconsider your definition of "stable" somewhat.

  8. Re:What is the relevance of FreeBSD today? by jared_earle · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..a single 'make buildworld'...

    How does that differ from a single 'make bzImage' in Linux?

    If you have to ask, you have obviously missed the point. "make buildworld" will compile userland. You know, all the stuff in /bin, /sbin /etc and all the rest?

    Whereas a "make bzImage" will compile a kernel. Whoop. This is "make buildkernel" in FreeBSD.

    [troll]The Linux equivalent of "make buildworld" is "make my mummy buy me a new distro CD"[/troll]

    /me ducks

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