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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. Jan 17 is the anticipated release date of 5.0 by atrus · · Score: 4, Informative

    The story body isn't worded very clearly... Jan 17th is the anticipated release date of 5.0, not 5.0RC2

  2. Preemptive Slashdotting by robbyjo · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... should be available shortly. Check it out ...

    This gives a whole new meaning to preemptive Slashdotting.

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  3. Re:Just in time for Christmas!! by jon787 · · Score: 4, Informative

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

    They're working on it

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  4. In related news, Duke Nukem Forever... by Blaede · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...is almost done as well, we think. All that's left to do is the art, programming and game design.

  5. 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!

  6. 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.

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  7. FreeBSD has interesting History by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I converted to FreeBSD 3 from RedHat 5 and have not looked back since. It just makes more sense structurally and is more solid than anything I have found on i386. BSD argueably has the most solid TCP/IP stack out there. A few examples:

    - F5 BigIP's converted from BSDi to a modified FreeBSD kernel in v4 (microsoft uses these for Windows update)

    - Also I had to laugh when I found out F5 inserted the BSD TCP/IP stack in one of their "Red Hat" cache appliances (EdgeFX) for performance resons. :)

    - The evil empire also uses FreeBSD for hotmail. You didn't think Winders could hang?

    - Nokia/Checkpoint FW1 and IDS sensors run BSD kernels

    - Can you folks think of anymore on the resume?
    The interesting history is that Bill Joy (went on to help form SUN) was behind the original BSD movement. I heard it used to be called Bills' Software Distro... Wasn't Berkley behind tcp/ip? You folks probably know more of the history than me.

    Anyways, I had a crash and burn attempt at 5.0RC2 last night so I'll probably wait for 1/17/03 and get a new box for 5.0 Release.

    FYI - looks like RC2 is posted.