FreeBSD 5.2.1 Released

Kalev writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. This is intended to address several bugs and vulnerabilities discovered in the FreeBSD 5.2 release. See the Release Notes. The release is now available for downloading. If you are currently running FreeBSD 5.x, you can easily cvsup to it or use binary upgrade feature of sysinstall."

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[Anonymous Coward]

First Post!!! Ha ha ha Ken Rupo, you suck!

Fuck Apple.

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you, Apple, for saving FreeBSD.

Apple did not "save" anything. FreeBSD was in no danger of dying and was quite healthy before Apple came along and cherry-picked the codebase (something they could quite legally do given the BSD licence).

And Microsoft copied BSD code into Windows - and that certainly doesn't mean that they like or want to help FreeBSD.

and we no longer have to worry about the latest hardware support

Tell me - what x86 hardware does Apple sell?

If it weren't for the Mach micokernel from Apple

Windows NT / 2000 / XP runs on a variant of the Mach kernel. Mach is a fairly standard, well documented design principal. Apple did not make the FreeBSD kernel.

They only thing that Apple "saved" was money when they killed NeXT in favor of using BSD code.

If there's anything worse than a "*BSD is dead" trolls - it's the Steve Jobs-humping Apple morons like yourself.

YOU GODDAMN FUCKING KARMAWHORE! *BSD IS DEAD!

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Re:How's FBSD on AMD64?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmm interesting. So the various tiers must mean something like this:

Tier 1: A few people have reported booting up OK.
Tier 2: Completely broken.
Tier 3: Somebody somewhere said they'd like to start a port.

Re:What a shame

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh yeah I suppose Linux must have ripped off FreeBSD's shitty SMPng to enable it to run on 512 CPU systems, right?

Yes sir, FreeBSD is really creating a big steaming pile of shit since branching FreeBSD 5 oh, about 5 years ago. Yep, they've basically been going backwards in terms of speed and scalability and stability for the entire life of FreeBSD 5.

I don't know if you call that chugging along or not. I rather thing it is the collective egos of the FreeBSD team bloating, splintering and imploding. They've alienated most of their capable developers, and the only people left sit around all day and brag to each other about how much better they are than Linux.

Re:Point point releases?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah that was a good one, they admit mistakes, learn from them, and try not to repeat them.

Let's not bring up the ongoing (5 friggin years) FreeBSD 5 fiasco.