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FreeBSD 5.3-BETA3 Available

Posted by timothy on from the you-may-avail-yourselves dept.

hugo_pt writes "FreeBSD 5.3-BETA3 has just hit the ftp/cvsup servers. This new beta aims at correcting some known bugs from BETA2, mainly on ACPI and the schedules. It also improves several system utilities, such as bsdtar. More details available here FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE is expected October 3rd."

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  1. Re:bsdtar by jsonn · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Yes, I have heard of --posix. I also know that it does not work. It doesn't create POSIX-compliant archives and even the manpage admits it. This is something I call a bug. There are various situations which GNU tar fails to handle correctly either by failing or creating correct streams. The FSF way of testing GNU tar is testing that GNU tar does what GNU tar is supposed to do. Not tar, GNU tar. I don't call a tool stable, if it does fail to work correctly.

    For the copyright issue, like most European nations, the German copyright is based on human rights, you can't sell it. You can share the copyright, you can give an exclusive license, but it is not possible to completely hand over all your rights. Beside, this is something I as a developer would never do.