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FreeBSD 5.3 on the Horizon

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the counting-down-the-days dept.

underpar writes "ZDNet UK is reporting that FreeBSD is nearing a code freeze. August 15th is the deadline which will be followed by the usual beta testing and a final release hoped for by October 1st. ZDNet interviewed the software engineer leading the release work, Scott Long, for the article. He says: 'The 5.3 release will be the first one where we see the real benefits of that. The multithreaded network stack will outperform everything we've done before, for running applications such as Apache or MySQL.' Status reports can be found on the FreeBSD website." I've been using the last technology release of FreeBSD for some time now, and am really looking forward to the 5.3 release, as well as the 5-STABLE branch that's rumored to follow soon after.

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  1. Hell's Frozen Over! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    (Read Subject)

    1. Re:Hell's Frozen Over! by discogravy · · Score: 3, Funny

      no, that would be a debian release. (said, posting from a sarge box....)

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      FreeBSD for the impatient.
  2. Re:Apache on FreeBSD by Bull999999 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I tried that but I got the "DON'T_LISTEN_TO_TROLLS" error.

    --
    1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d
  3. Re:Java support? by dan_sdot · · Score: 3, Funny
    Please don't make me stick with Red Hat 9 of all things.
    Ok, fine. I'll buy you a copy of Windows XP.
  4. Re:snap! by underpar · · Score: 3, Funny

    See.. I'm about to install something on a very sad looking box sitting in the corner. I was thinking about Linux, but the cute little devil makes me think I should try FreeBSD. Is it wrong to choose an OS based on the mascot?

  5. Re:Speaking of the horizon... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's an open secret Netcraft just copies all their statistics out of the Farmer's Almanac.

  6. Re:snap! by captnitro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Absolutely not. In fact, the mental image on my end is Tux, Clippy, and Daemon fighting it out.

    Tux is gone; he's cute, but has no defensive weaponry. Furthermore, he can't even fly, all he can do is repeat the Futurama quote to himself --

    Penguin: Full of fish?
    Bender: Not entirely.
    Penguin: Then let's fish.

    So it's down to Clippy and BSD Daemon, and maybe that Apple and his friend Darwin the platypus in the corner who're both giving moral support, but they're setting off fireworks because they like eyecandy and have a short attention span.

    Pretty much, the Daemon unwinds Clippy and uses him to open a stuck CD-ROM drive.

  7. NetBSD logo by r00t · · Score: 3, Funny
    If you want to see "terminal decay", check out the NetBSD logo!

    NetBSD.jpg

  8. BSD status ;-) by nusratt · · Score: 3, Funny

    as always . . .

  9. Re:FreeBSD vs Linux - my findings by hugo_pt · · Score: 3, Funny

    by stability you mean a new way to get root on linux every month?

  10. Re:Explain something! by sp0rk173 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You've got to be more precise than BSD 4.4...because that was a realease of BSD back in the early 90's as I recall, and just about every version of *BSD after that is some what based on "4.4 BSD".

    The current stable 4.x version of FreeBSD is 4.10. So, did you mean they based their code on FreeBSD 4.4? Because..i mean...to a certain extent Solaris is based on 4.4 BSD...but not at all on FreeBSD 4.4...and uh...whatnot.

  11. Re:FreeBSD Daemon by Secrity · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you honestly believe that a talking paperclip is less evil than the FreeBSD Daemon?