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FreeBSD 5.3 Beta1
Tezkah writes "From the announcement: 'The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1. This is the first BETA of the 5.3 release cycle. It is intended for early adopters and those wishing to help find and/or fix bugs. The 5.3 release cycle will continue with weekly BETA builds while bugs are being fixed and features finalized. The schedule is at www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html . Be sure to check the "Known issues" below, there are known problems still being worked on at this time.' New features include fully threaded and multi-processor safe network stack, X.org instead of XFree86, many ACPI enhancements, GCC updated to 3.4.2, gdb updated to 6.1.1, binutils updated, and much more. Expect 5.3 to be released in full on October 3rd, if everything goes according to schedule!"
The BSD 'todo list':
Rigor Mortis
Putrefaction
Maggot feeding
The BSD people get so pissed off at the *BSD is dying posts, that one would think they would be above childish retaliation in the form of linux trolls. I am a linux user, and I accept that someone might want to run an OS other than the one I use. Why are 90% of free-OS users so childish, and loyal to their OS? Because, God forbid, people who like one OS could read stories about it without trolling.
Satan It won't be easy, you'll think it strange When I try to explain how I feel That I still need your shell after all that I've done You won't believe me All you will see is an OS you once knew Although she's patched up to the nines At sixes and sevens with you I had to let it happen, I had to change Couldn't stay all my life down at heel Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun So I chose freedom Running around trying everything new But nothing impressed me at all I never expected it to Don't cry for me BSD lovers The truth is I never compiled cleanly All through my alpha days My mad existence I kept my promise Don't keep your uptime And as for features, and as for usefulness I never invited them in Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired They are illusions They are not the solutions they promised to be The answer was here all the time I excite you and hope you loathe me Don't cry for me BSD lovers Don't cry for me BSd lovers The truth is I never left beta All through my alpha days My mad existence I kept my promise Don't keep your uptime Have I outputted too much? There's nothing more I can think of to say to you But all you have to do is look at me to know that every line of code is crap
my own prescient observation: