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Netatalk 2.0.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the talk-to-me-baby dept.

SuperBanana writes "After what seems like an eternity, Netatalk (an Appletalk server suite for unix) has caught up with the latest version of the Apple Filing Protocol (aka Appleshare). This means long filenames, files larger than 2GB, and other goodies that will bring much happiness for Unix sysadmins supporting Macintosh users (check out the human-friendly release notes for the full list). As with any major release, even though this has been through several release candidates- read the gotchas, review the known bugs in their bug tracker, test it out on something non-critical...and help stabilize the release by reporting any bugs you find. Of course, make sure you read a guide to reporting bugs first!"

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  1. OT by Stevyn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is exactly why I switched to gentoo. Check out http://packages.gentoo.com/ and see how up to date everything is.

  2. Dont cry for my BSD lovers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    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

  3. A quick note for our troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Facts speak louder than FUD. :-)
    Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

  4. Re:FUCK YOU TIM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What they're missing is that all the guys leaving FreeBSD switched to OS X, which has some BSD roots just as well. And you know Apple now is the largest UNIX vendor on the planet.

    So, there you have it and bugger off Sir.

  5. The only thing collapsing is the FUD. :-) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Instead of reading benchmarks which are more than *3 years old* (he said "recent".. :-D ) I'd suggest reading this /. story about the record established by NetBSD in May 2004. It could be instructive the fact that the researchers stated they choose NetBSD because of the superior IP stack. In the comments to the story, they also say they tested other OS's as well, and while FreeBSD performance was comparable to NetBSD, Linux performed pretty poorly.

    The record was subsequently broken, but it was established again by NetBSD in September:
    NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

    Goodbye, Troll. Have a nice day. :-)