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FreeBSD 4.9 Code Freeze
lewiz writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering have announced that the code freeze in preparation for 4.9-RELEASE (scheduled for 29th September) will begin on 25th August. Also 4.9-RC is tentatively scheduled for 12th September. A full list of dates can be found on the Release Process page."
The beauty of FreeBSD is that you don't get a new scheduler or VM subsystem in every new 'kernel release' unlike some other OSes I can think of. Only after great lengths of testing, experimentation, and the actual need for the new subsystem does it make it into the tree. And then, it makes it into the -CURRENT tree. Something so complex is never MFC'd, fortunately. I like FreeBSD because it doesn't radically change from release to release. It is just improved.
Beware, Nugget is watching... See?
I was wondering, can any of the people who seem to be badmouthing FreeBSD all the time code? If so, have you contributed at least a line of code to making your much beloved Linux better? If so... Wait a minute, I'm talking to myself now.
Seriously though, if you are not contributing in any way, but still think that just being a fan makes you superior to other teams and their fans, you should think about this: the game is not about you, you're just observers and if your team should cease to exist, you wouldn't know what to do with a football to save your life. So put your scarf on, cheer like a good sport, but leave the criticism to those who actually play the game.
Set your minimum score setting to 1. End of problem. Anyone who can't be arsed to log in and can't write anything interesting enough to get a moderation point from someone is no loss.
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That's interesting. A recent Netcraft survey showed that there were thousands of FreeBSD IPs. Over 40000 alone at Yahoo. Extrapolated, every single person who even visits Yahoo is a FreeBSD user...
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.
Here's the deal.
They are enough alike that GNU/Linux users should be shouting down the BSD is dying trolls in the same way the BSD proponents should be helping out WRT the Linux lawsuit of SCO. Preceived 'leaders' like Linus, Alan Cox, et la of the 'linux movement' would be the obvious choices to lead by example. Another example would be Miguel de Icaza.
Instead, you have people like Bruce Perens saying 'its not my job to support BSD' (Yet he claims to be an Open Source advocate), the Open Source Development Labs *ONLY* pimping Linux (If you are an OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT LAB, ignoring BSD shows you are not doing OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT-your name should be LINUX Development Labs), few people correcting the idea that if you want to run Apache/samba/et la that means Linux.
So, until people like Eric Raymond who has said (at one time) that the BSD kernel is better written then the Linux kernel starts to mention BSD, Bruce Perens who claims he supports Open Source, then ignores BSD/Disses BSD, and even a lack of effort to put down the BSD trolls on slashdork, there will remain a schisim.
One that Microsoft and others could use, if they figure out how.
The many Unix OS paths can try to work together to grow Open Source, or work apart. The actions of people like Perens shows that Linux advocates not only want to work alone, they want to co-opt Apache/samba/et la under the 'Open Source/Linux' banner. And, if for some reason the Linux kernel falls under the SCO lawsuit, there would have to be a 're-education' of users....such confusion will continue to help closed source/Mircosoft.
(BTW, wine is in the FreeBSD ports collection. Code can be written to NOT run on the BSD's, and this does happen...look at early GNOME or other work by Miguel de Icaza, he writes (or used to) his code with no reguard to it working on BSD.)