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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. First Rams! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok, so it isn't the first pr0st33z. But...

    GO RAMS!

    Fuck you all.

    I hate every one of you.

    Love Always,
    News For Turds

  2. Re:This is what... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    >This is what... (Score:0, Redundant)
    >by dark-br (473115) on Wednesday October 29, @09:00AM (#7337035)
    >(http://www.canaljuizdefora.com.br/)
    >they should include on the new release: click me

    Was this modded "redundant" because it's the same girl on all the photos?

  3. Sorry, you are WRONG! by cculianu · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You have a naive understanding of how the world works my friend. Can you truly be free when there is no system in place to protect your rights? No! Would you consider yourself free if there were no laws?

    Sure you would be, for a time, until that pack of hungry hoodlums comes by and denies you all of your freedoms. They beat you up and take away your property. They can do it because they are just as free as you. As soon as they do that you are no longer free. They can do it because you aren't protected by the law.

    True freedom means the ability to be protected from losing your freedom. We in the United States like to say we live in a free country. Not because we can do whatever we like, but because we like to think that the system is all about protecting our freedoms as much as is possible in a civilized society (at least we used to think that before the USA Patriot Act.)

    Your freedom is about as short-lived as the amount of time it takes some guy to come over and bully you into giving up your rights!

    The thing about FreeBSD is that anyone can easily take away the freedom of the software! And many closed-source vendors do just that.

    For software to truly be free, it must never ever ever risk losing its freedom, no matter what hands it falls into. Anything else is not free.

  4. Re:I wonder... by Monty67 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is this listed as a troll?

    With all due respect to the moderators, please reconsider. Hopefully this will be caught by the META people.

  5. 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.

  6. MODERATION ABUSE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If this is a troll, then why isn't the parent of my parent not a troll?

    Oh thats right, some opinions are better than others on Slashdot.

  7. bullshit by GNAApbird · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you moderators are hypocrites. I will keep on posting until you quit moderating me down.

  8. PARENT IS FLAMEBAIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    troll/flamebait. look at responses.

  9. RAMPANT HYPOCRISY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  10. Re:Interesting, but the real question is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Things only get more hairy day by day as BSD becomes increasingly marginalized.

    Even though it has been said before, nonetheless it is true: BSD is dying.

  11. 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

  12. Theo teh Rat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Theo, you don't keed to be a Kreskin to look into FreeBSD's future. Even a child knows that FreeBSD is dying. All major marketing surveys show that FreeBSD has steadily declined in market share. FreeBSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral. In truth, for all practical purposes FreeBSD is already dead. It is a dead man walking. It's a fact: FreeBSD is dying.