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FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE
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.
I think its a good thing i didnt buy 4.6 from the London (UK) Linux Expo then isnt it :)
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No, dont ask me why they were selling BSD (quite heavily actually) along side Linux on most stalls.
Oh, and a note to KDE and Gnome teams, having blank stalls with two spotty kids sitting at laptops, with no promotional items or banners or posters really isnt a good way to promote your product guys. (And believe it or not, they were sat next to each other, AND NOT FIGHTING
Yes, very good idea! And after that, we can take the best every Desktop and window manager and do a "single best-of-breed" Free Desktop Environment. But don't forget to also take the best from every good free Office Suite, so wea can have the "The-Only-Free-Good-Secure-Godlike Office Suite(tm)" to put into your distribution!
/. about how great it could be if we stopped competion in open source and instead do a "only one" great app that take the best of all that currently exist. The problem here is that the idea you have about the "great one" isn't the same that I have or that everybody else has.
And why stop now? Merge Mozilla/Konqueror/Opera to create the "Super-Duper-Magical Internet & File browser(tm)" too!
Damn, I think we have a winner in that product! Maybe we should call it Windows XP?
Really, I often read on
I don't want a "single best-of-breed Free Unix distribution" just because such a thing isn't possible. So instead of having only one distribution "to bind them all", I prefer having the choice between a lot of good and different ones.
I love FreeBSD b/c of it's security and it's great ports system. I wish there was a linux distro on par with those two aspects of FreeBSD. But the one problem with FreeBSD for me?
No native JDK 1.4.
It's on linux, windows and solaris. The announcment of the license thingy with Sun came out 12/01 and I haven't heard anything yet.
How come FreeBSD has no cardbus support?
That's the only thing keeping me from running it on my laptop.
That's kind of funny. The nvidia driver works fine under x86 Linux. What it really comes down to is you can have 15,000 different Linux distributions but they're all basically the same when it comes to kernel, libraries, X distribution, etc. So, getting the Nvidia driver to work under Debian is just as easy as getting it working under Red Hat or Mandrake. FreeBSD on the other hand seems to be a stable solid target with a well supported standard configuration base yet it has much less driver support available for it. Why is that? Less users spurring development I suppose.
Seriously. I have several custom ISO's I made for myself for easy deployment of boxes. They all cvsup after install, and then install a ream of ports suited to the purpose of the machine. Like a webserver, database server etc. Complete with a scripted sysinstall! It's very easy to do. "make release" is my bitch :)
Boot from the CD, partition/label, go have coffee and return to a machine ready to deploy. I love it.
The Unix philosophy is to have many small tools. So, while you could already do yes n | cp, why now add an '-n' option to do the same?
PS: the moderator could at least give some classification...
more specifically, Gentoo
If I absolutely had to use Linux as my main system, I would probably use Gentoo. No doubt about it. But the mere word "linux" is not enough to make me switch back. FreeBSD does what I want it to do and does it well. It's not about being 1337, it's about using the system I want to use.
p.s. I bet both FreeBSD *and* Gentoo users are wondering what all those complaints of sluggish KDE coming from Redhat, Mandrake and Debian users are about...
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That is what I did. That is what happened to me. In the end, there are advantages and disadvantages to both. Ultimately, I tried Gentoo Linux and found the best of both worlds (intelligent source-based install, centralized compiler flag config files, easy application and system upgrade...) though FreeBSD is still preferable for boring servers that absolutely must not crash, ever.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
- Documentation! That is: MANPAGES. Lots of 'em, updated and well written. In fact, you can (should) expect to find a manpage or nine for just about every single file/program/function/device in core. That means a lot less hunting around on the net when something isn't quite right or when you're programming.
The handbook is nice too, but the thing I miss the most when on a linux-system (any linux-system) is good manpages.(Btw, does anyone know what the regexp-engine in gnu-sed 3.02 can do? I'm trying to port my favorite $display_filter...)