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FreeBSD 4.9-BETA i386 ISO With Packages Available

Posted by timothy on from the try-it-out-in-your-spare-time dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engg. Team's Murray Stokely has put together a FreeBSD 4.9-BETA ISO image for i386 with the latest package build provided by portmgr@. If you haven't yet given 4.9PRE a try, hopefully this will encourage you to do so!"

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  1. What I know about *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1. You can not play games on it.
    2. It cannot be used by my grandma.
    3. It lacks a GUI of any note.
    4. There is no support available for it.
    5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes.
    6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform.
    7. You have to compile everything and know C.
    8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor.
    9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.
    10.It is dying.

  2. Re:FreeBSD -- last vestige of communism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You have a harddrive stuck up your anus?

  3. Elegy for *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Elegy For *BSD

    I am a *BSD user
    and I try hard to be brave
    That is a tall order
    *BSD's foot is in the grave.

    I tap at my toy keyboard
    and whistle a happy tune
    but keeping happy's so hard,
    *BSD died so soon.

    Each day I wake and softly sob
    Nightfall finds me crying
    Not only am I a zit faced slob
    but *BSD is dying.