FreeBSD 5.2 Released

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Posted by Hemos on Monday January 12, 2004 @01:44AM from the and-lo-it-comes dept.

James writes "Freebsd 5.2 is released. FTP mirrors. Release notes This is another step towards 5-STABLE. Many improvements in this release, including ATA and networking enhancements." Patrick Jensen also points out that this is the first stable release with AMD64 support. You can also see the official announcement if you so desire.

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That's nice by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 01:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Really.
cool by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 01:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

finaly there
Just for making it quick... by LynXmaN · 2004-01-12 02:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I for one, welcome our new beowulf cluster of dying *BSD overlords

In soviet rusia *BSD releases you!

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1. Re:Just for making it quick... by Dreadlord · 2004-01-12 02:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  And they say old timers left /. because of trolls ;)
  
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2. Re:Just for making it quick... by LynXmaN · 2004-01-12 05:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Just wanted to go thru all the typical rubbish quick, maybe that way we can see some insightful content on a BSD post ;)
  
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Re:Question by Walterk · 2004-01-12 02:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic
- Maturity
- Stability
- Consistency
As the admin of my own home network, I've switched to almost completely NetBSD. Both on client and server side. It gives me extraordinary stability on all the machines. It also gives me a consistent manner of behaviour across all systems. Most important of all, it doesn't get in my way. It sort of does just want I want it to. Pkgsrc (the NetBSD ports) is available via NFS to all machines, which allows them to install any program with great ease.

If you're worried about speed; that's just OpenBSD attempting to be secure. Free and NetBSD both give you a much faster system. NetBSD's just as secure as OpenBSD (but without the hype).

NetBSD has made my life as admin of the network so easy, I actually have time for other things, such as finishing those reports, etc.
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FreeBSD may be nice, but this is nicer: by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 02:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Click me.
Yet another FreeBSD problem by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 02:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Jermaine is voicing concerns about his brother's integrity and believes that he is innocent.
"My brother is innocent. We are behind him 1,000 per cent," Jermaine said, addressing charges that Jackson sexually abused 12-year-old Gavin Arvizo.
Apparently, he has spoken to his brother every day since Michael, who has been bailed for one million dollars, was arrested for oral sex, mutual masturbation and inappropriate sexual touching.
something is.... by twoslice · 2004-01-12 04:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

seriously out of whack with the universe. Not a single *BSD is dying/dead post.

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1. Re:something is.... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 11:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  FreeBSD is more or less dead. It doesn't mean that no one at all uses it. However, FreeBSD is slowly fading into oblivion. That is the simple truth. It is a hobby project mostly. Of course I don't care what anyone wants to play with. That is their business. But nevertheless there should not be an intentional cover up of the truth: FreeBSD is dying
Re:10 things which we know about FreeBSD by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 04:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic
1. You can not play games on it. (Same argument for Linix)
2. It cannot be used by my grandma. (Same argument for Linix)
3. It lacks a GUI of any note. (Same argument for Linix)
4. There is no support available for it. (RTFM for Linix I guess is better?)
5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes. (At least it does not contain copywritten code from SCO ;p)
6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform. (Same argument for Linix)
7. You have to compile everything and know C. (Same argument for Linix)
8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor. (Same argument for Linix)
9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux. (Thank GOD!)
10. It is dying. (Same argument for Linix after SCO gets through with them ;p)
If you can't take the heat stay out of the kitchen. Mud is always thrown best from the side arm because they never know where it is going to hit.
Re:My personal experience in the FreeBSD world by AtrN · 2004-01-12 06:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You really didn't have to (auto-) post this so many times.
Look on the bright side. Matt's doing DBSD and we get AmigaDOS++ out of it. Go Matt!
gratutious post to cancle moderation typo by nutznboltz · 2004-01-12 06:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

sure would be nice if you could cancle a moderation typo without having to post into the forum that you mod-typoed in.
1. Re:gratutious post to cancle moderation typo by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-14 05:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Modding the BSD section. What a shitload of fun that must be.
Israelis -- hands off FreeBSD!! by JVStalin · 2004-01-12 08:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Thankfully the evil republic of Israel doesn't use FreeBSD.
Bones said it best by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 08:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In the immortal words of DeForest Kelley,
It's dead, Jim.
Re:too bad by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 09:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Roger Clemens is pushing back his retirement, agreeing Monday to a $5 million, one-year contract with the Houston Astros. The six-time Cy Young Award winner had said for more than a year that he planned to quit after pitching last season for the New York Yankees.
Clemens was persuaded to join the Astros, his hometown team, after close friend and former Yankees teammate Andy Pettitte signed with Houston last month. ``It's great to come home,'' Clemens said. Houston is deferring $3.5 million of Clemens' salary for two years, according to contract terms obtained by The Associated Press.
Re:too bad by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 10:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In order for us to really understand the big picture,
we have to realize one simple fundamental fact:
FreeBSD is dying

Come to terms with these facts, and you're home free.
Re:FreeBSD on Opterons by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 11:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Eliezer Yudkowsky gives me the Singularitarian handshake. "You take a person's hand and let go a billion years later," he says. It is Saturday night in the Yale University dorms, where dozens of transhumanists have gathered for a conference called Transvision. Even among people who look forward to life as technologically improved beings, the Singularitarians are a fringe group -- about 50 young computer-programmer types rushing toward their chosen milestone of a post-human age. "The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence," says Yudkowsky.
Re:10 things which we know about FreeBSD by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 13:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

1. SCO is suing FreeBSD.
2. IBM is helping Linux.
3. Nobody will help FreeBSD.

FreeBSD has more reason to be scared of SCO than Linux.
Re:Live CD by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 13:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.
Re:No point in discussing this with Apple by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 13:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Next anchor is the big story at 'Nightly News' Shortly after November's presidential election, NBC's Brian Williams will replace Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News. Pundits believe that NBC might be second-guessing the planned anchor change on Nightly News. Brian Williams is supposed to take over after the 2004 elections. NBC via AP Or will he? ABC's Peter Jennings, whose World News Tonight has been gaining on top-ranked Nightly, has mused that, as the date gets closer, NBC management may have a change of heart and persuade Brokaw to stay. Some media pundits have predicted the same thing.
Where did this BSD is dead / dying thing start? by denks · 2004-01-12 16:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Not being up to date on open source / free software politics, Im curious where, when and why this anti-bsd thing started?

This is not intended to start a flame war, I am genuinely interested.

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1. Re:Where did this BSD is dead / dying thing start? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 22:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  About a year and a half ago, Gartner Group and IDC both released studies in the same week which showed a dramatic decline in market share for the free BSD operating systems. That decline seems to have continued to this day. Other than a couple of mom and pop shops, there is no support available for BSD anymore.
2. Re:Where did this BSD is dead / dying thing start? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-13 04:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  this anti-bsd thing started?
  
  There were a few postings blaming a 'Kevin' who was let go during the BSDi/Wind River merger timeframe.
  
  Notice how the 'BSD is dying' meme is only tolerated on /. . Such posts are not on other sites. Management at VA Research^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Linux ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H OSDN doesn't want to see them gone. Now, if there were posts over and over pointing out how "The name linux is being attached to programs like Apache in an attempt to subvert the good works of Apache" or "Microsoft beat UNIX in the 1990's by pointing out the market fragmentation - Today's Linux market is even MORE fragmented and therefore Linux is doomed to the rubbish heap" or using the Virgin Webplayer/BSD ATA code in Linux with the copyright notice removed as "proof that the GPL doesn't work" or the way over 1/2 a billion dollars of stock market money has evaporated from "linux" stocks and then to tie that to the anti-capitolist bent of a few public GPL advocates...then you'd see the /. management stop such posts. (Each of these examples have an actual basis in fact. Alas, more than a few of the /. BSD is dying style trolls lack any basis in fact.)
  
  But because the /. management doesn't care to stop the posts, they've continued for years.
3. Re:Where did this BSD is dead / dying thing start? by denks · 2004-01-13 11:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  OK, so a simple, innocent question about BSD history / free software politics actually is totally off-topic on an article about BSD. OK mods...what article should I attach this question to? Believe it or not some of us are actually curious about where this all started.
  
  Hey..I know...Ill make up a smart arse SCO comment about BSD..then Ill get modded +5 funny even though it has nothing to do with BSD at all.
  
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4. Re:Where did this BSD is dead / dying thing start? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-14 11:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Notice how the 'BSD is dying' meme is only tolerated on /. . Such posts are not on other sites. Management at VA Research^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Linux ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H OSDN doesn't want to see them gone.
  
  Actually, censorship is not tolerated here.
  
  Censorship may be acceptable in your world, but Slashdot management has had a strong track record of upholding the concept of free speech here.
  
  I guess freedom and BSD is not compatible?
5. Re:Where did this BSD is dead / dying thing start? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-14 11:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Honestly, I wish there was some other reason, but it's the most clear and concise explaination.
  
  I think the ever-expanding collective ego of the *BSD community would be a more accurate explanation.
Arrogance by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-13 02:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

When Linux started making headway some time ago, *BSD users couldn't handle the competition into their area so they started spending all their free time bashing Linux.

Then Linux users started doing the same in response and now they cry foul like the hypocrites they are when someone does it to them.
re:re:TBHY LHY DNAH by mrplastik · 2004-01-13 02:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This I am aware of, as I've seen this identical posting atleast 4 times in other threads. I just had to go on record and disprove his mindless dribble, if not merely for my own satisfaction.

-mpf