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FreeBSD 4.11-RC2 Available

Posted by timothy on from the keeping-stable dept.

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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  1. Get the best BSD via the torrent! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Best BSD!

  2. Wrong BSD by dn15 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's funny that this comment is rated "Score:1, Informative" (as of this posting) considering that the "Best BSD" it links to is NetBSD rather than the actual topic of this story, FreeBSD.

  3. Requiem for the FUD by AgainstTheFUD · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    ... 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. ;)

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

    1. Re:Requiem for the FUD by AgainstTheFUD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      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).

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

    2. Re:Requiem for the FUD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Nobody needs your silly "public service." The moderators are given mod points for a reason. Nobody believes BSD trolls, and people mark them down because they are just posts meant to annoy people like you who, for some reason, take them seriously.

      But go ahead, give the trolls the attention they're wanting.

    3. Re:Requiem for the FUD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Just a quick reply to this worthless, pretentious post.

      But go ahead,

      That's pretty much my intention. :)
      Only, I will post at 0, not to bother the +1 readers with something repetitive.

      And again, the first post in this thread doesn't "give attention" to anybody, and it isn't a reply to anybody. It's just a collection of facts, meant to dispel some of the FUD that has been circulating for *years*. That doesn't qualify as simple "trolling".

      As long as you'll find FUD on this board (I don't even care about who writes it), you'll find that post, or an analogous collection of facts. Live with it.