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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:Which FreeBSD to install?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    For desktop use you are doing yourself a disservice if you use anything except for Apple OS X. Sure, you have to buy a new computer, but so what? BSD is only "free" if your time has no value, and the time that you will save using OS X for your desktop compared to BSD will save you thousands of hours in a single year. With OS X you have apps that JUST WORK, a GUI that completely rocks anything the KDE or GNOME people can imagine, and the whole thing is backed up by a corporation that employs paid, professional, American programmers. Not amateur communists and freeloaders who spend company time writing kernel hacks for those servers noone knows they installed.