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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. Debian should adopt new NetBSD/FreeBSD init by Florian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A major improvement in FreeBSD 5.x over 4.x is the new modular init. Instead of one monolithic script (classical BSD) or several scripts in a symlink farm with manual sorting and dependency resolution (SysV / Debian, RedHat, SuSE...), it uses an internal automatic sorting and dependency resolution comparable to apt-get or modprobe on GNU/Linux. I would like to see mainstream adoption of this in the GNU/Linux world of this. To date, Gentoo Linux is the only distribution offering and supporting this excellent feature.

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  2. Re:I swirched to FreeBSD... by callipygian-showsyst · · Score: 4, Insightful
    You have to admit--the zeal of the "Linux" folks can get a bit annoying. In fact, a lot of good applications for Linux aren't being realized because Big Corporations (like one I'm currently consulting for) doesn't consider it professional enough. They'll use FreeBSD, but not Linux.

    I think the "University Connection" with BSD helps a bit, along with the standard distributions. Face it, a lot of the people going around promoting Linux are doing it for the wrong reasons: a hatred of Microsoft, as opposed to a true understanding of the advantages of Linux, and Un*x-based operating systems in general.

    (I, too, prefer FreeBSD to Linux, and I can certainly empathize with your sentiment that the Linux community is cult-like.)

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  3. Re:Hope it supports Token Ring by HoneyBunchesOfGoats · · Score: 2, Insightful
    uptimes of less than two weeks a pop
    Most of us Windows users would kill for two weeks of uptime!
  4. Better OS X Cardbus support now? by York+the+Mysterious · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now that FreeBSD has cardbus support can we expect Apple to grab some code and improve their cardbus support. While Apple's CardBus support does the basics there are many drivers that I have heard could not be written simply because the API support did not exist. Is this something Apple can grab. I'm not funny up to date on what Apple grabs from which various BSD projects. -Tim

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  5. Re:I swirched to FreeBSD... by jo42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Linux is for people who hate Windows, BSD is for people who love UNIX about sums it up.