Posted by
timothy
on from the how-many-shopping-days-left dept.
ocipio writes "FreeBSD 5.2 is scheduled to be released by Christmas. Recently marked 5.2-BETA, the ports tree is in a freeze and developers are asking for testing. A TODO list is available for those interested."
Merge of Darwin msdosfs, other fixes Not done Apple's Darwin operating system has fairly extensive improvements to msdosfs and other kernel services; these fixes must be reviewed and merged to the FreeBSD tree.
Since one reason the GPL people attack the BSD license so much is that it doesn't require give backs, it's good to see some people do the right thing.
Re:Merge from Apple
by
Brandybuck
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Sometimes when you don't treat people like potential criminals, you'll find that they "do the right thing" without being asked.
-- Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
Re:Merge from Apple
by
Groganz
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Not to mention any improvements that FreeBSD developers make on top of that can be feed back into Darwin, and so it goes on. And noone has stolen any code:P
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From the TODO:
Merge of Darwin msdosfs, other fixes
Not done
Apple's Darwin operating system has fairly extensive improvements to msdosfs and other kernel services; these fixes must be reviewed and merged to the FreeBSD tree.
Since one reason the GPL people attack the BSD license so much is that it doesn't require give backs, it's good to see some people do the right thing.