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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 jo42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

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