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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."
The /. 'editors' do it again..
http://bsd.slashdot.org/
N.B. I realise that the post mentioned it hasn't been officially released- but I suspect the FreeBSD team don't want it to be unofficially released to the general public yet.
... the main ftp server gets Slashdotted, here are some mirrors.
Read the article title, "FreeBSD 5.0 Available". They never said it was officially released..
"I keep looking in the want-ads under 'revolutionary' but there don't seem to be any listings.. "
Obsolescence of the freeBSD operating system represents itself strangely. So many people don't want freeBSD that they kill half the FTP servers on the face of the planet downloading it when a new version is available. Weird. Notice: Every time a new release of any form of BSD is announced some Linuxketeer or XP drone can be depended upon to announce that '*BSD is dead!' FreeBSD looks pretty healthy considering it was first announced as dead about three years ago. To all those who feel threatened by *BSD I say relax. Competition leads to evolution.