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FreeBSD 5.3 Released

Posted by michael on from the only-mostly-dead dept.

cpugeniusmv writes "FreeBSD 5.3 has been released! This release marks a milestone in the FreeBSD 5.x series and the beginning of the 5-STABLE branch of releases. For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the release notes and errata list. Bittorrent Download."

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  1. In Other News by sabat · · Score: 1, Funny

    *BSD Obituary

    *BSD, 27, of Berkeley, CA died Monday, Sept. 6, 2004. Born July 3, 1976, it was the creation of a cluster of pot-smoking hippies who went to Illinois and came home with a reel of tape. Rather than smoke the tape, they uploaded it and hacked on it a little.

    *BSD was known for its C shell and early TCP/IP implementation. After being banished from UC Berkeley, it was ported to the x86 platform, where it fell into the hands of heavier pot-smokers who liked to argue. Soon, the project had splintered into 12 different Balkanized projects. Until its death, there was almost constant fighting in and amongst these groups, sometimes degenerating into out-and-out fistfights.

    *BSD is survived by its superior, Linux, as well as several commercial unix implementations. It may be missed by some who knew it, although most of them are said to be mere OS dilettante dabblers.

    A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, at the Berkeley Chapel on the UC campus, with interment to follow via the burning of the original *BSD tapes and scattering of the ashes over the San Francisco Bay. The Rev. Lou "Buddy" Stubbs will officiate.

    The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, at the funeral home.

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    I, for one, welcome our new Antichrist overlord.
    1. Re:In Other News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Because it's funny. BSD snobs have such fragile egos.

  2. Re:Doesn't Matter by mkro · · Score: 5, Funny
    In five years, either FreeBSD will have adopted DragonflyBSD's model, or nobody will be using FreeBSD.
    Matt? Is that you?
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    I shall go and tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him.
  3. obiligatory scriptage by chadpnet · · Score: 2, Funny

    wget "ftp://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i38 6/5.3/5.3-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso" && echo "Wah Hoo!"

  4. Re:FreeBSD, dead at 5.3 by agent+dero · · Score: 2, Funny

    It did

    Enjoy ;)

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    Error 407 - No creative sig found
  5. Re:been a while by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    okay...

    #define BROKE 1
    this of course, is not GNU/Broke, because if it was it could also read email.
  6. Crazy period?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    My teacher was right. The world collapsed the moment the Rex Sox Won.

    Look at everything that's happening since.
    - New releases of *BSD variants.
    - Bush re-elected
    - /. robot topics scaring the shit outta us
    - Half life 2 released in about a week.

    What next? Flying pigs? (Name that Simpson episode!)

  7. Re:Excellent OS by Proc6 · · Score: 1, Funny
    Request to moderators: Mod Flamebait anyone who says "Not a flame".

    Sorry couldn't help it :P

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    I'm Rick James with mod points biatch!

  8. Now playing: by beaviz · · Score: 2, Funny

    FreeBSD 5.3: Resurrection

  9. Re:*BSD is dying, et al... by goldsounds · · Score: 1, Funny
    You know, I've noticed a trend on Slashdot recently, and the parent post is the exception that proves the rule:

    Posts that say that *BSD is dying... are dying.

  10. Date miscalculation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    *BSD, 27, of Berkeley, CA died Monday, Sept. 6, 2004. Born July 3, 1976...

    /bin/sh on FreeBSD:

    $ echo $(2004-1976)
    28

    Obviously the reporter must be using the superior OS mentioned in his post where not even such basic calculations can be done right. I highly recommend the reporter give FreeBSD a try.

    This just in: the said evaluates to 28 on Linux as well, so this must mean the reporter is an idiot. Q.E.D.