FreeBSD 5.3 on the Horizon

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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FreeBSD Daemon

[Anonymous Coward]

I just know I'm going to get flamed for this or at the very least modded down, but it has to be said.

I've heard and read absolutely fantastic things about FreeBSD. It looks like a nice stable platform to learn and test UNIX. However, I have one major problem with FreeBSD - its mascot.

As a life-long practicing Christian, active in my local church, with many practicing Christian friends, I just can not in good conscience use an operating system that uses an image of Satan as its mascot. Not only does it represent the source of evil, but if my family and/or friends were to catch wind of my using anything that uses an image of the Devil to represent itself with, I'd be at the center of controversy, if not out-right ostracized.

For the sake of myself and other good Christians and other religious believers, I hope that someday the FreeBSD Foundation chooses a new mascot, one that isn't offensive to hundreds of millions of potential users. However, until then, I suppose I'll have to stick with Microsoft Windows. Pity.

Re:FreeBSD vs Linux - my findings

[brunorc]

Stability:

(a lot of words 'bout Linux, probably no hands-on experience with FreeBSD) - Result: FreeBSD 0, Linux 1.

Support:

Ease of updating (man portupgrade, man pkg_add was never seen, I suppose) - Result: FreeBSD 0, Linux 3.

Software:

(man linux - no, this is not a joke - also was never seen; although there are many apps that cannot be run this way - e.g. MuSE - it works great with many others) - Result: FreeBSD 0, Linux 1.

CONCLUSION

"Windows is far better than any Unix, 'cause I have Windows on my PC - and I haven't any Unix on it and I don't plan to." - some Johnny. You cannot compare known to unknown - this mean you can, but what for?