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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.

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  1. What is the relevance of FreeBSD today? by pieterh · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just a question, I'm not knocking FreeBSD.

    But I'm seeing Linux coming up so fast... Is there a likelyhood of putting the best of FreeBSD into Linux and getting a single best-of-breed Free Unix distribution?

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    1. Re:What is the relevance of FreeBSD today? by aridhol · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Depending on your viewpoint, one of my "major advantages" to the BSD system may be a disadvantage to you. And it wouldn't translate well to Linux.

      If you get FreeBSD 4.7, it is exactly the same as anybody else's FreeBSD 4.7 in terms of included software. There's no RedHat FreeBSD, SuSE FreeBSD, Debian FreeBSD, etc. It's just FreeBSD.

      Now if only they could get that NVidia driver working, it would be perfect.

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    2. Re:What is the relevance of FreeBSD today? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
      No, there isn't much likelihood of that, because "best of breed" isn't a sensible goal. Different people want different things.

      For example, some people want lots of developers adding lots of bleeding edge features. And some people want every line of code audited and tested for months. Conflicting goals.

      Some people want a good UI. Some people want a Windows clone. Conflicting goals.

      Some people want init scripts to be intuitive. Some people like System V.

      What would your "best of breed" Unix be like? Whatever you come up with, someone is going to say, "That sucks worse than Linux and worse than FreeBSD." And then other people will agree with you.

      It just doesn't make sense.

  2. BSD ? by AresTheImpaler · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I want to try BSD... but have some questions before doing so. My computer has both win xp and linux. I am going to buy another hard disk to put freebsd. Can I boot bsd with grub? also... Can anyone please tell me why some people prefer bsd from linux? doesn't linux have more support? does unreal tournament run under bsd(I don't thinks so)? I'm a bsd newbie but been using linux for about 2 years. What differences would I find? thanks

  3. The only problem... by Sp4c3+C4d3t · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I love FreeBSD. I would run it in place of Linux... but my Audigy doesn't work. And I don't have accelerated nvidia drivers (though I did read something about those coming to FreeBSD?). But the nvidia issue isn't important... I need sound, and that's all there is to it... and I refuse to use those payware drivers that apparently don't support the digital out on the card.

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  4. gcc 3? by Ashish+Kulkarni · · Score: 4, Interesting

    just a curiosity...what is the reason that all the *BSDs are sticking to gcc2.95.x? I know that Linux has been using gcc3.2 for quite a bit of time now, and it can be considered somewhat stable.

  5. Re:FreeBSD running behind linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Just to add some to this here are problems I have with FreeBSD:

    - I want binaries (ports take too long to compile and cause too many problems on my slow ass computer). apt-get fits this nicely.

    - No nVidia support. (I know it's coming, but damn, it's taking way to long; on Linux it just works)

    - No (recent version) VMware support. This is simply unacceptable since I use VMware every day to get my job done.

    Some questions I have and need to find more about:

    - Does FreeBSD have framebuffer support? I like to use my server as a TV (fbtv) sometimes. I don't want or need X on it.

    - I use my server as a VCR also so I need libraries like AVIFILE to work. Do these work on *BSD? (avifile uses Windows binaries on Linux by the way)

  6. FreeBSD rules! by Petronius · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I started playing with it a week ago and now I'm thinking about abandonning RH for FreeBSD: so far, I've had nothing but good experiences with it:
    - all the stuff I like (bash, Python, Java, PostGres, webmin) is there
    - KDE is fast, very fast!
    - boot time is amazingly fast
    - the Ports system is *amazing*
    what's not to like about it?

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