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FreeBSD 5.1 Review and BSD Roundup

Posted by timothy on from the large-lasso dept.

securitas writes "Both eWEEK's review of FreeBSD 5.1 and ExtremeTech's BSD overview and roundup (single page) will be of interest to BSDers and anyone else who wants to explore their open source OS options. The review of FreeBSD 5.1 says it lacks the stability of v4.8 but adds features that some may find useful (for example, more processor architectures are supported) so it shouldn't be considered for critical deployments yet. And the BSD round-up speaks for itself."

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  1. Re:I'm not sure I get the analogy by vandel405 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And that a bunch of other OS's use it's code, that's what's meant by the children part.

  2. the article itself is sort of flamebait by itself. by ketamine-bp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the article is way too pro-BSD to be said, and is comparing apple (linux, kernel sense) with oranges (BSD, distribution-sense).

    Though being a BSD-user (OpenBSD server & MacOSX desktop), I feel uneasy to read all those, esp. the 'linux-copy-bsd' phrase.

  3. Too true by siskbc · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I tried FreeBSD, heard it was cool, and I'm used to Slackware so I'm not afraid of any install. So I got it installed fine, but none of the commercial apps I use were supported. Vmware 3 is only supported by 5.0, despite vmware 3 being a couple of years old. Matlab seems to be unsupported.

    So bottom line is, I really liked a lot of BSD's features, but unfortunately an OS without programs is useless. The ports guys do a great job, but can't make up for lack of vendor support. ;(

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    -Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat

  4. No commercial gain from GPLed code? by spray_john · · Score: 3, Insightful
    When code is licensed under the GNU General Public License or GPL (as is Linux), the license effectively eliminates any financial rewards anyone -- whether an individual or a corporation -- might hope to gain from improving upon it.

    Oops! It looks like IBM and Redhat were just charities after all...

    But seriously, does this stink of someone that's lapped up the FUD to anyone else?

  5. Re:Lacking stability?! by dubious9 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, but it's like saying granite is soft compared to dimond. They wouldn't release it if it didn't have them same famous stability, but rather they're acknowledging that no recently released product is as stable as its tried and true predecesor.

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    Why, o why must the sky fall when I've learned to fly?