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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 SCO is offering licences for the use of 0 and 1 in free bsd, at the low price of $699 per bit, with an increase to $1399 after October 15th.
*crickets chirp*
Not nearly dying!
perl -e '$_="\007/4`\cp%2,".chr(127);s/./"\"\\c$&\""/gees
4.9 Release notes showing what is going in/being fixed
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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.
My main interest in FreeBSD is rock hard stability.
There is nothing worse than your desktop crashing, it's horrible. This is why Linux is an unacceptable choice to me in terms of a *nix desktop. Even crashing at the end of a 13 day uptime is unacceptable because it points at flaws in the system that can manifest themself at a time of their choosing; I don't like that. Well, there are other reasons I choose FreeBSD over Linux, but those aren't important. My main point is that, I want a reliable desktop OS, and I'm going to trust the FreeBSD team on this. When they say 5.x is stable, then it's stable, and I'll use it. I'm actually waiting on it pretty hard too, I love DevFS, faster filesystem is great, etc, etc, but none of it is worth sacrificing stability for me. I mean, it'll all be there for me when 5.2 (which is the stable release, or close to it, no?) is out, and I'm looking forward to that. No reason to rush things when, like I said, there is nothing in 5.x that I NEED.
-If God wanted people to be better than me, he would have made them that way.
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.
_O_
.|< The named which can be named is not the true named
great now I am responding to a troll,
so I will answer
1. It is dying
-Wrong
2. It has no GUI
-Wrong
3. It is fragmented
-This is a good thing
4. It is associated with SCO
5. It has no games
-Wrong
6. It is run only by geeks
-Um no comment
7. It is unusable by Grandmas
-nor is linux
8. It has fewer than 500 users
-Wrong
9. You can not install it on a pentium
-Nope
10. You cannot apt-get it
-Correct, use have to make; make install
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.
I don't know of any commerical backup utilties, but Freebsd supports things like Amanda.
I typically use a simple dump script for backing up 5.x systems:
Dump will do a snapshot in case of any file system changes during the dump. FYI, a make world usually isn't needed, as you can just re-make that particular peice of code, or rebuild the kernel if it is a kernel change.