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FreeBSD 4.9 Code Freeze

Posted by michael on from the stop-in-the-name-of-love dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! by mhesseltine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sure, no one seems to care now. However, wait until the SCO gestapo starts really trying to nail down their "licensing fees" from users. FreeBSD will see a huge influx of new users, migrating over from Linux.

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  2. Re:Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From what I saw, the big news will be PAE (> 4Gb on Intel boxes) support, which good for commercial uses (we have a bunch of 8Gb Linux boxes that use PAE) but not likely a lot of folks have it on the desktop.

    Check the FreeBSD open issues list to get a snapshot.

  3. Re:Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! by kongjie · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Well said. I should note, however, that this "Chinese" curse May you live in interesting times is in all likelihood the invention of Western writers.

    There is no Chinese equivalent that I've ever found and others have noted the same.