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FreeBSD 4.8 Released
Dan writes "FreeBSD's Murray Stokely announces the long awaited availability of FreeBSD 4.8, the latest FreeBSD-stable release, which has dealt with known security issues, and added initial support for Firewire, HyperThreading, and other new hardware technologies. Murray says that the new release is also the result of conservative updates to a number of software programs in the FreeBSD base system, see FreeBSD 4.8 release notes for more information."
Yes, but the problem is that RMS always makes himself look like an idiot. For one thing, he acts like it's the right of users to become root if they can find the password... Secondly, all you need is a simple chmod 4550 su to have the same effect.
Yes, RMS is first a politician, second an organizer, and (only) third a programmer. I say this as someone who has gotten to know him fairly well. What makes this worse is that his views may take him far, but eventually his true opinions come out, and you can tell that his sense of reason exists in it's own little world.
A good example of that is his advocation of all developers being legally forced to use the GPL.
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