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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. In Other News... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. 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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  3. Re:Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure the Linux fanboy base that makes up the core of Slashdot readers are all pleased to hear that another free OS is making progress. I'm sure they will all show up here to show their support as soon as all crusades against Linux and Geekdom in general are brought to an end and Microsoft is destroyed!

    In the meantime FreeBSD uses will be content to stay out of the limelight while Slashdot fights those terribly important battles. :rolleyes:

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

    I, for one, agree here. 4.9-RELEASE isn't really all that exciting. Of course, it's not supposed to be exciting -- it's from the STABLE branch; new and exciting features don't belong in the STABLE branch.

    Now, if there was a completely new scheduler or virtual memory system, or a couple data-corruption on unmount bugs, that would be exciting. But in FreeBSD, that sort of thing doesn't get into the STABLE branch.

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  5. Re:Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! by drdink · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  6. Re:Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, BSD can only asymptotically approach 5.0, or else it will be System V. Count on seeing 4.9.9.9.9 STABLE in the next few years.

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  7. Re:Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! by cperciva · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashcode must have eaten my tags.

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  8. Features List by rf0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    4.9 Release notes showing what is going in/being fixed

    Rus

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    1. Re:Features List by bmah · · Score: 5, Informative

      FYI: That document is really the release notes for 4-STABLE, and is a work in progress. I still have a bunch of things to do to get it caught up to reality.

  9. 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.

  10. Re:Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! by mph · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some of us don't really want our OS to be exciting. Wasn't that an ancient Chinese curse? "May you live in interesting times, and your operating system provide much excitement."

  11. Loud and Proud, Put Away That Silly Shroud by SlashCrunchPop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  12. 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.

  13. Re:My trolls are not idiotic! by Quill_28 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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