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FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE Review

Posted by Hemos on from the read-more-about-it dept.

MRE writes "Well it's been out for a week an a half, but here's the first review of FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE. Or if you want to download the new release and try it for yourself, it's only one ISO image away."

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  1. Uhh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, it's been two and a half hours, with no comments on this story.

    BSD is dying...?

  2. ~/.signature by xyxy · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is a rather amusing e-mail signature I saw recently:

    Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?
    Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
    FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what?

    1. Re:~/.signature by PacoTaco · · Score: 3, Funny

      OS/2: Where did you go yesterday?

    2. Re:~/.signature by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 3, Funny

      SCO: hey, whre are you guys goin? You know I've just got this rusted out AMC Gremlin... can you give me some gas money please? GUYS!!!

    3. Re:~/.signature by gyratedotorg · · Score: 4, Funny

      amiga os 4.0: dude, wheres my car?

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    4. Re:~/.signature by mhesseltine · · Score: 3, Funny

      Apple: We're all going somewhere different. But trust us, it'll be really cool when we get there.

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  3. only one ISO???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    See how much smaller your distro is when you don't include the SCO code?

    [/ducks]

  4. The WTFPL :) by Cronopios · · Score: 1, Funny
    The WTFPL is also short and clear. It covers some parts of WindowMaker, and I've used myself on some tiny applets I wrote:

    do What The Fuck you want to Public License

    Version 1.0, March 2000
    Copyright (C) 2000 Banlu Kemiyatorn (]d).
    136 Nives 7 Jangwattana 14 Laksi Bangkok
    Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
    of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

    Ok, the purpose of this license is simple
    and you just

    DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.


    Both the Free Software Foundation and the Debian legal group agree that this is a valid FLOSS license.

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  5. Re:sk0 multicast is fixed now by cerberusss · · Score: 2, Funny
    My thanks again to Jung-uk

    That name sounds Klingon. Have you actually seen this guy or are you just assuming he's human?

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