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October-December 2003 FreeBSD Status Report

Posted by Hemos on from the the-state-of-the-union dept.

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."

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  1. Re:FACT:Sells ok on Ebay by poppageek · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I sell CDs of Linux and FreeBSD and NetBSD on Ebay. So far I have done ok on FreeBSD. Not getting rich but I have sales and interest enough to keep listing them. Am getting interest in NetBSD and expanding the sellection there too.

    The FreeBSD and NetBSD listings get alot of views. Never know why poeple look and not buy, price? Just curious? I dunno but so far I have sold as many FreeBSD CDs as any Linux Distro. Just listed NetBSD this week and have one sale already.

    Linux wise Fredora and Rehat are my top sellers. I do not sell Mandrake anymore. They do not seem to have the same open mindframe of the other distros to sharing. It was demanded I remove the downloadable version from my listings. Ebay was even contacted and told to remove the listings.

    I am doing ok enough with the others that I do not need Mandrake. In reading the info on the *BSD and other Linux Distros web sites they have very open and sharing minded policies except for Mandrake, OpenBSD and SUSE. No matter, it's their work they can demand what they want I guess.

    But the openess of Fedora, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenOffice.org is so inspiring I have decided to doante a portion of every sell to their respective organizations to help and to share back.

    These guys are really cool and what they are doing is really cool. I know you already know that but after the Mandrake acted the point has been further driven home to me.

    Blantant self promotion:
    http://stores.ebay.com/poppageeks