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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. you tools by timmarhy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    how can anyone claim an OS is dieing right after a new release?

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  2. Jem Report = Bogus newbies doing news by Zefram · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know where to begin with this. He installed on an AMD64 and complains that Linux binary support didn't work. However, there's trouble finding ANY binaries for AMD64. Java doesn't work? That's binaries. If he did Java from source, I bet that'd work.

    He complains about the license. I am so sick of people crapping on anything that isn't GPL. "in fact Microsoft at one point took a great deal of BSD code relating to networking to include in early versions of Windows NT." - alot of people got the stack from BSD. Why? It's good code.

    Lastly, if he had read the main FreeBSD page, he would see that 5.x isn't production quality. Why did he use this version? He doesn't even mention that it's the "New Technology" release and doesn't highlight the fact that he's using a new CPU type.

    After the hack job done on FreeBSD and on Sun's Blade 1500, I wish /. would realize these people have no idea what they're talking about and stop linking the stories.

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