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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. Protesteth-ing too much by Brett+Glass · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Y'know, I really do wonder why the "BSD is dead" trolls invest so much time and effort in polluting every Slashdot article that involves BSD. One would almost think they felt threatened by BSD, and were "protesteth-ing too much" a la Hamlet.

    Could they be stockholders in companies that have cast their lot in with Linux? Rabid adherents of the FSF (or the FSF itself)? I'd honestly like to know what the agenda is here.

    1. Re:Protesteth-ing too much by dswensen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yeah, Slashdot trolls are big old stockholders. When they're not day-trading, they're pasting "penis bird" ASCII into Slashdot comment boxes...

      You're giving them way too much credit IMHO.

  2. Re:Theo duh Rat strikes again! by beefdart · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Umm how long has Theo not been with FreeBSD?

    If you are gona Troll, at least do it well. Choke on a penguin-cock and die you linux-halfwit.

    If BSD is dead, someone should go install some shitty linux distro on our 300 servers (apperently using FreeBSD should be illegal)... I am powered by NetBSD... so I can't