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October-December 2003 FreeBSD Status Report
Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Scott Long has posted the 2003 FreeBSD year-end edition status report. He says many new projects are starting up and gaining momentum, including SGI XFS port, MIPS, PowerPC on PPCBug-based embedded boards, and networking locking and multithreading. The end of 2003 also saw the release of FreeBSD 4.9, the first stable release to have greater than 4GB support for the ia32 platform. Work on FreeBSD 5.2 also finished up and was released early in January of 2004."
Since we're so fat as Americans shouldn't we add another branch to the *BSD tree and call it OBSD?
yes, and i ran Windows XP so i can float around and have an XP experience. Yup, the logo and mascott of a software company determines what i recommend to my boss. Management: What should we use, Windows or this Linux thing? user: Don't use Linux. Their penguin mascot sucks. Use BSD. I have a fetish for devils. Management: Hm...devils are evil, right? Naw, we'll use Microsoft. What's their logo? user: $$$
Ben, you've become an UberGeek! Take me as your padawan!!!
their development team. They are taking a break between RC versions. They deserve the rest. Good work guys!
What does a Penguin have to do with Linux? What the hell is the association there?
Besides the obvious similarities between Linux users and penguins, such as the propensity towards pear-shaped anatomies and strict black-and-white orthodoxies about software licenses, there's also something very fishy about them waddling around talking like Burgess Meredith.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
That project certainly deserve the "coolest name" award. Basicly it's the freebsd equivalent of ndiswrapper to get wireless chips to work. :)
It's remarkable how applicable this name is
Here is a more detailed description.
the best part is that i don't even run bsd
i guess that makes me a karma whore. AWESOME!
Despite the numerous BSD is Dying trolls on here, it seems to be quite a lively corpse.
I have half a dozen 4.9 servers, a couple of 5.2 laptops, and I'm playing with the Motorola 88k RISC port of OpenBSD trying to get it to load on an MVME187
One of these days I'll get all crazy and complete the family by putting NetBSD on my toaster oven
I am very easy to get along with, but I don't have time to waste being nice to people who are being stupid. -Theo
> They've taken perl out of the base GAH! ;)
Uhm, thats a GOOD thing.
As usual FreeBSD is way behind linux. I mean come on, look at this little porky... linux. Tell me you cannot grab roll of that! Reminds me of a recent picture I saw of someone in a dunk tank. :pPpPpPpp