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FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 available

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-play-with dept.

Nirbo writes "One week after FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1, FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2, is now available to those wishing to update to the most current FreeBSD on the 5.x branch. It's available from the Main FTP servers, and probably a few more places by this point. BETA-3 is due out September 3rd, but for those who don't want to go a single day without updating, you can find snapshots (and the ISO images) here."

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  1. Re: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Guess I don't understand why you think that your NIC being detected is the the end all be all for an OS.

    Let me explain it to you. It's a network operating system. It's a commonly encountered, and generally well supported card. The beta is broken, plain and simple. No networking ability means it's not ready for prime time. Can you understand that?

  2. Re: BSDimwit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yup. You're a dimwit all right. It seems as though you can't read small posts carefully enough to save yourself some embarrasment.

    To each their own I suppose.

  3. Re:Definately a beta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You won't get much help if you don't give a little bit more information like which brand and which type.

    PRs have been sent asshole.

    If so, you would have known that you always had the possibility of running 5.2.1 and to keep current with the latests patches. Cvsup is your friend.

    Guess what? You end up with exactly the same release (5.3-BETA2) asshole.

    That's what I thought.

    And having provided us with your sign in name makes your pointless rant more insightful asshole?

    Fuck off asshole.

  4. Re:Definately a beta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    Fuck off asshole.

    Ah, yes, the true colors of the BSD community. This, apart from the OS not working on any system that I own, is why I went back to Linux. At least the slackware and Fedora folks hold civil conversations.

  5. Re:Definately a beta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    It's the elitism that is killing BSD. Theo is just about the worst. He is completely anal about the the most picayune details of a license, but he himself releases OpenBSD with onerous conditions, even threatening lawsuits against those who copy the ISO.

    Elitism has taken its toll on FreeBSD too. FreeBSD is literally coming apart at the seams. KSE is hosed. SMP sucks. The best experts have quit the FreeBSD project.

    Hey guys, our biggest enemy is ourselves. Can't we all just get along?