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FreeBSD 4.8 Released

Posted by michael on from the freer-than-ever dept.

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."

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  1. STOP!! by AntEater · · Score: 5, Funny


    I was about 12% into my download of the iso files when this showed up on the front page. Everyone please wait until I'm finished. Thanks.

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  2. Re:Look it moved by moderators_are_w*nke · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you define the merits of an OS by its popularity, then Windows 98 must be one of the finest operating systems on the planet.

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  3. A Matter of Time by Spencerian · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's only a matter of time until some wacko Mac OS X users asks "when will this latest BSD update become part of the BSD subsystem of Mac OS X?"

    I'm not one of those people.

    Nope. No way. Uh-uh. No sirree.

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