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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. Re:Just in time for Christmas!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You mean, Linux is enough like BSD, that FreeBSD is still usable for the average Linux user.

    Personally, I think everyone would have been a lot better off if FreeBSD had been adopted as the 'standard' 'unix' rather than linux.

    ah well..

  2. Re:Just in time for Christmas!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting
    From http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd:

    Debian GNU/FreeBSD is a port that consists of a FreeBSD kernel, kernel-related utilities, C Library and a few specific utilities, coupled with the "regular" Debian (GNU) userland.

    It's not the stable, well-tested FreeBSD we know and love, but if that's what you want, it's there for you to use and improve.

  3. The real story by shlong · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I appreciate the submitter's enthusiasm with submitting this article, but it really doesn't come across well. RC2 is available now, though it probably hasn't reached all of the mirrors yet because I jumped the gun with announcing it. And yes, 5.0-RELEASE is scheduled for Jan 17. There will be an RC3 on Jan 10 in order to verify that some last-minute bug fixes don't cause more regressions. Still, I encourage everyone to give it a try and let us know how it works for you.

    --
    Cat, the other, tastier white meat.
  4. Difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 3, Interesting
    What the diff? Is FreeBSD as secure-luvin as OpenBSD? Does FreeBSD also have cryptographic drivers (need PW to access all content on encrypted partition, etc). I'm choosing FreeBSD unless there is some strong crypto that OpenBSD offers that FreeBSd doesn't have.

    Yeah, I know, RTFM and spend more time searching on Google... just thought I'd pick your smart brain in addition. Thanks!

  5. Re:Just in time for Christmas!! by MobyTurbo · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I would be the happiest man alive if debian would use the FreeBSD kernel.
    Well, as has been pointed out, a very non-release-quality version of Debian has been made for FreeBSD. A somewhat more mature Debian is available for NetBSD. (My guess for their motivation for porting Debian to NetBSD first is that part of their philosophy is to be available on a lot of architectures, like NetBSD.)

    Personally I prefer to run *BSD without debianising it, pkgsrc/ports rock, and I consider the NetBSD and FreeBSD package and source tree upgrade utilities slightly superior to apt-get and friends. To each his own I guess. :-)