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FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 Almost Ready

Posted by timothy on from the open-ended dept.

essdodson writes "Scott Long of the FreeBSD release engineering team has posted that FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 has been compiled and should be available shortly. Check it out and help make this the best FreeBSD release so far. The updated release schedule lists Jan 17, 2003 as the anticipated release date."

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  1. just a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    don't report it till it is done please.

  2. How Insightful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful
    FreeBSD is almost ready. That is good to know.



    On the plus side, the article isn't saying FreeBSD is being
    released like the editors love to tell a few weeks before
    the actual release and only make themselves look like idiots.

  3. say what? by ldspartan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not to join the ranks of the whining /. denizens, but you just announced thate a release candidate is almost ready? Granted its important, but almost doesn't really count, and its not a final release, it just might be.

    "Something that might some day be a final release is almost ready!"
    "Say what?"

    --
    Phil

  4. Re:ahhh nuts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Vaporware? I'm running it. The fact that
    you need them to make an ISO for you is quite
    telling.

    Second thought, perhaps you shouldn't run freebsd.

    You're not ready.

  5. Re:Oh boy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    it's been a few months since RC1 so.. how is this not news. there are alot of new and innovative features in/planned for 5

  6. Re:I vote FBSD 5.0 as the best vaporware in 2002 by PFAK · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's only been delayed 3 months, how is that a vaporware? At least the FreeBSD core team makes sure they have a quality release before they actually release it to the public, unlike other Operating Systems..

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    Free means no restrictions, ironic the FSF's GPL forces restrictions, isn't it? What's your definition of free?
  7. Where's the beef? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Can we stop talking about whether BSD is dying or not, why you use FreeBSD, etc. and start talking about FreeBSD itself?

  8. Re:Just in time for Christmas!! by cymen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would be the happiest man alive if debian would use the FreeBSD kernel.

    I'd be the happiest man if a decent distribution was put together with the FreeBSD world and the linux kernel. Why would you want the opposite? I guess I can see it, but not really. make world + linux kernel == wahooO!

  9. Re:Just in time for Christmas!! by Weedhopper · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I'd be the happiest man if a decent distribution was put together with the FreeBSD world and the linux kernel. Why would you want the opposite? I guess I can see it, but not really. make world + linux kernel == wahooO!


    Its called gentoo linux.
  10. uh. by Pros_n_Cons · · Score: 2, Insightful

    BSD sucks its not "buzzword" compatible. I didn't hear one word about OOP, Linux, or .NET -Managment

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    -- "of course thats just my opinion, I could be wrong." --Dennis Miller
  11. Re:Just in time for Christmas!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I agree wholeheartedly. Linux userland is suffering some major bloat, but the kernel supports more hardware, more network funkyness, faster filesystems, and it's SMP code is decidedly non-beta. When I get the time I'm going to port FreeBSD's libc as a starting point and see what I can get working :)

    As a side note, some FreeBSD kernel-land things would be nice in Linux, such as PROPER process accounting and limits, stuff like accept filters and kqueue/kselect... Oh well..