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FreeBSD 5.1 Released

Posted by simoniker on Monday June 9, 2003 @05:31AM from the let-the-downloading-begin dept.

LogicX writes "FreeBSD 5.1 is now available. Mirrors and press release are at FreeBSD.org. Enjoy." Here are the release notes for this new version. Update: 06/09 18:15 GMT by S : Here's a BitTorrent link at scarywater.net, and another BitTorrent link from the original poster.

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No wonder you post anonymously. by fmaxwell · 2003-06-09 06:06 · Score: 1, Troll

My fucking god. The mind boggles.

Yes, it does. How could anyone could be so stupid as to not get the "5.1" joke?

Meanwhile proper sound support, proper SMP support, proper thread support, etc. ad nauseum, has been available in Linux for fucking YEARS.

Why do you fucking poseurs continue thinking you're lee7 running FreeBSD on your Pentium 3? Someday hopefully you'll find yourself in the real world.

In the "real world", you will find many ISPs like UUNet, Compuserve, and Mindspring, running their servers on BSD variants. Yahoo! uses BSD. Hotmail used(uses?) BSD. Why? It outperforms Linux and has greater stability. In the "real world", you will find BSD variants in many embedded applications because it is not saddled with the hobbyist-oriented GPL license that forces companies to part with their intellectual property. If Linksys had built their routers around BSD, they wouldn't be facing a legal mess that might force them to give away their source code.