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NetBeans IDE 3.5 Beta

Posted by michael on from the jamaican-blue-mountain dept.

Rob writes "We are pleased to announce the availability of the beta version of NetBeans IDE 3.5 release (codenamed Tegal). This release is focused on performance improvements, especially in the area of UI responsiveness. The binary and source distributions in various formats have been uploaded onto the website. We encourage all Java developers to download, try, test the bits, report problems and provide feedback. Also check out the new netbeans.org website design."

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  1. Somewhat Early Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In other news, Junis and Jon Katz were spotted at my local TravelLodge motel climbing into the back of a D-Reg silver Ford sierra.

  2. Moderately offensive post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I found out a hole load from this site

  3. *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray.
    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on
    the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all
    for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many
    of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows
    like a river of blood.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users
    of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on
    Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400
    NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD
    posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put
    FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are
    (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of
    FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out
    of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI
    is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD
    is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to
    survive at all it will be among OS hobbyists dabblers. *BSD continues to decay.
    Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all
    practical purposes, *BSD is dead.