FreeBSD 5.0 Available

Vegard writes "Although not yet officially announced, the 5.0 version of FreeBSD is beginning to appear on the FreeBSD FTP site and mirrors world wide." Congrats to the developers. Update: 01/19 17:44 GMT by T : Some more detail -- Dan writes "Scott Long of FreeBSD Release Engineering team has officially announced the availability of FreeBSD 5.0 release. Improvements include second generation UFS filesystem, GEOM, the extensible and flexible storage framework, DEVFS, the device virtual filesystem, Bluetooth, ACPI, CardBus, IEEE 1394 and many more! FreeBSD is also available on 64-bit sparc64 and ia64 platforms."

Comments

Re:Release Notes

[Anonymous Coward]

Heh, I can't wait to see what Apple's response to this is. Wonder if they'll rip off the new BSD like they did with KHTML, the Gnu compiler tools and just about anything else they've put their fingers into lately.

The way I look at it they can either take this update onboard and make themselves look worse, or just sit even further behind, both of which suits me just fine!

bye bye apple

Re:Nice linking

[Anonymous Coward]

We all know that a lot of people will begin to download a +600MB ISO file and that no single FTP server would be able to handle the Slashdot crowd

Doesn't the FTP server run FreeBSD? If it was running *Linux, then I'd agree, but because it runs FreeBSD, I'm sorry, your claim can't be true.

Re:Hurrah for the BSD Team

[Anonymous Coward]

trust me your effort means jack shit you fat, pasty white, moma's boy.

kewsh

Re:Oh, hooray

[SonOfSengaya]

> This is sabotage.

You bigheaded guy, you think everybody (or anybody?) wants FreeBSD!?!

:)

Re:Nice linking

[SonOfSengaya]

Hey, that was just a joke! :)