FreeBSD 4.11-RC2 Available

hugo_pt writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.11-RC2. This is the second of three scheduled release candidates. At the moment there are no known severe issues. However the Linux Emulation subsystem (mostly added as a package) has been completely updated based on Red Hat 8.0. We would appreciate people testing the Linux emulation support. In particular testing to see if Linux applications continue to behave correctly if the linux_* packages get installed while using sysinstall(8) during the initial installation of the machine. The package set for disc1 is still being decided on, what is on disc1 for this RC will most likely change before the release."

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Requiem for the FUD

[AgainstTheFUD]

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Re:Requiem for the FUD

[AgainstTheFUD]

Dear BossMC (696762),
definitely you're not "politely asking", and I really don't think that's a "stupid post" either, considered what it contains and how it has been modded up in the past threads..

Anyway, from now on I'll post it at 0, adding a one-line request not to mod it up, so that it stays under the +1 threshold - and that is actually the best thing, agreed, since that post is not meant to annoy, it's meant to dispel the "BSD is dying" FUD (FUD without quotes, because that's what it is).

But when you say it's useless, you're plain wrong. FUD can hurt, unless it's quickly dispelled.
And this is not troll-feeding by any means, since it's not a reply to a troll (that most often, I agree, would just be a counterproductive waste of time).

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.