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FreeBSD 4.X Lives On

Posted by timothy on from the proud-mary-keeps-on-rollin' dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In spite of FreeBSD 5.3 going to "production" status, FreeBSD is still planning at least one more full release of the mature production 4.x series. FreeBSD 4.11 Release Candidate 1 has been announced. The complete 4.11 release schedule is here. This is good news for those who can't or don't want to migrate to FreeBSD 5 yet."

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  1. Here comes the "BSD is Dead" comments by jantheman · · Score: 0, Troll

    old troll.

    move along.

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  2. Actually... by setagllib · · Score: 0, Troll

    FreeBSD 4.x is dead. If you read the schedule, it's being handed over to the security officer, meaning it will ONLY get security fixes from now on. That's it. And given the dubious quality of FreeBSD 5 it means there will be a slice of time where FreeBSD servers won't know what to do - stay with the dead but solid system, or move to the living but flaky one?

    It's a real shame they decided to use that SMP model for 5.x, else it would be the best x86 OS in the world. It falls short because the locking slows things down and not many drivers are being rewritten yet (but this situation will of course improve), and there are many bugs introduced into existing [especially network] drivers.

    I'd still rather run FreeBSD 5 than Linux for a must-have-reliability server, but not for anything that needed performance. Of course I'd rather still run NetBSD 2 on such a server, but that's tangent.

    /me waits to be called Troll for mentioning 'dead' in a post

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  3. Re:*BSD is dying by setagllib · · Score: 1, Troll

    It is now official. setagllib confirms: You're a tool

    One more crippling foot kicked your dumb ass because you never learned to shut up around people stronger than you. Coming on the heels of a recent peer survey which plainly states that you are going blind from beating off to your mother too much, this news serves to reinforce what we've known along.

    You don't have to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict your middle mouse button's future. The printoff is on the wall: Your button is worn out from too much damn copying and pasting. As many of us are already aware, you're an assbandit without even as many testicles as required to post with a name or with any original content.

    Fact: Slash needs a regexp-based troll filter with automated banning

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