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.

Comments

FreeBSD running behind linux?

[Deth_Master]

It seems to me, from reading the release notes, that FreeBSD is running behind Linux on the support side. I am seeing things that are being released for FreeBSD that have been released for Linux, in the stable environment, for quite a while now (unfortunately I cannot provide exact dates.) I'm just wondering what the major benefit of using FreeBSD is. Linux has been the most stable OS I have yet to use. I haven't tried FreeBSD, yet. Perhaps I'll put this new distro on one of my junky PIIs or something.

I have heard (rumors) that FreeBSD is the most amazing OS to exist; that it's much more stable than Linux will ever be. Just curious if it's for the Uber-Geek people. I put myself in that category and am wondering if I need it to complete my Uber-Geekness. :)