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FreeBSD 4.9 Released

Posted by timothy on from the new-toys dept.

Digital Dharma writes "Excellent! FreeBSD 4.9 has been released, and if it's anything like the RC series, this will be a release to remember. You can obtain it from the usual sources, or if you're feeling generous and supportive, you can buy the cd set. Support your local Daemon!" As Jani Laaksonen writes, the new release includes "numerous security advisory fixes, kernel changes and support for the Physical Address Extensions (PAE) capability on Intel Pentium Pro and higher processors (see page(4)). This release also adds support for a few more hardware NIC cards, ipfw network protocol enhancements, userland changes, and more. Check FreeBSD 4.9 Release Notes for more information."

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  1. Panther/Darwin contributions? by mccalli · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Interesting - seems very close to the Panther and Darwin releases. Has this accepted any code from Apple?

    Cheers,
    Ian

  2. I thought 5.x was the latest by jaaron · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought FreeBSD was already on 5.x or something like that. Is that the development version? Does FreeBSD use a linux-like version numbering where odd numbers are development releases?

    --
    Who said Freedom was Fair?
  3. Scary troll ratio by BenjyD · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The average all posts:non-0 rated post ratio on slashdot is around 1.3. On bsd.slashdot.org it's more like 3:1 to 5:1 (there's currently a story with 40:1). What is wrong with these people? Choice is good, mmm-kay.

  4. Re:SO this means.... by wackysootroom · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'll bite on this one. I guess you've never heard of Yahoo or Hotmail. Both have used FreeBSD for web serving.

    Obviously, you've been hiding behind OS/2 boxes all these years. It's a shame that you don't get out more.

  5. Re:Does anyone out there... by gregarican · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Although I got modded as such, I wasn't trolling. And I wasn't aware of higher profile sites like Hotmail and Yahoo! using FreeBSD servers. It was just that in my past lives (working for other larger companies in a variety of industries) I hadn't run into any notable FreeBSD implementations. A few test/development envioronments and that was about it. And in my experience (this was more than a couple of years ago) I didn't warm up to FreeBSD like I did to some other *NIX alternatives.

    But everyone's free to disagree for sure. The fact that there are satisfied folks using production FreeBSD deployments says a lot and probably does discount most of the trolling resulting from the main article.

  6. Re:Isn't it interesting by tarius8105 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Amen! Linux is still not stable like *BSD yet. I've ran into a few issues with a top of the line system running Red Hat 9 doing more then 4 compiles at once would cause the box to hang and have to be reset, but my Dinky P166, 64 meg FreeBSD box can handle like 10 compiles at once.