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FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 Now Available

Posted by michael on from the five-candles-on-the-cake dept.

Dan writes "Murray Stokely of FreeBSD release engineering team announces that they're one milestone closer with the immediate availability of FreeBSD first release candidate for the i386, alpha, sparc64, and ia64 platforms. ISO images and FTP installation directories are available now from the FreeBSD FTP site."

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  1. uhh... by vorovsky · · Score: 5, Funny

    great, I just installed 4.7 last night...

  2. I swirched to FreeBSD... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...because those Linux folks started to get to culty--kinda like the Mac people.

  3. So what can we expect that will follow? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    BSD is dead?

    BSD sux, Linux rocks!

    "I switched to FreeBSD and was amazed..."

    "I tried FreeBSD and it sucked..."

    "Not to troll, but why should I use FreeBSD instead of Linux"

    FreeBSD and SMP sucks!

    "In Soviet Russia, the RC1 releases YOU!"

    "BSD != DEAD"

    So you se my friends, no need to post further! Thank you, come again.

    1. Re:So what can we expect that will follow? by Hoe · · Score: 5, Funny

      you left one more type of post off the list, the type that are summaries of all the typical posts.

  4. ia64 by MosesJones · · Score: 5, Funny


    Isn't it great how people can release things for hardware you wouldn't even know how to buy if you wanted to. I've often wondered how elements like the FreeBSD team and Linux get people interested in doing these things. Its not like an "itch you need to scratch" because you don't even have the body part to have the itch on!

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  5. Re:Yes... by drdink · · Score: 5, Funny

    That is the funny part. VMWare runs courtesy of the Linux ABI. So you'd be running a Linux OS on a FreeBSD system using a Linux binary.

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  6. Future news! by leomekenkamp · · Score: 5, Funny

    02-12-09 14:33 BSD: FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 Now Available

    My monitor sometimes thinks it is a crystal ball; using it I can predict future /. headlines. Here goes:

    03-01-06 9:25 BSD: FreeBSD 5.0-RC2 Now Available
    03-01-14 9:25 BSD: FreeBSD 5.0-RC3 Now Available
    03-01-25 9:25 BSD: FreeBSD 5.0-RC4 Now Available
    03-02-02 9:25 BSD: FreeBSD 5.0-RC5 Now Available
    03-02-17 9:25 BSD: FreeBSD 5.0 Released
    03-02-19 9:25 BSD: FreeBSD 5.0.1 Released

    Funny thing though, apart from the different version numbers the discussion is always exactly the same...

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    1. Re:Future news! by peterpi · · Score: 5, Funny
      You forgot these two:

      03-02-17 9:26 BSD: FreeBSD 5.0 not actually released, please wait for official announcement.
      03-02-17 9:27 BSD: FreeBSD 5.0 Now Available

    2. Re:Future news! by glenstar · · Score: 5, Funny
      And then there is always:

      03-02-17 9:26 (2014): GNU Hurd Alpha RC 0.1 Released