FreeBSD 5.4 Released

FreeBSD 5.4 is out. Reader KFW excerpts from the announcement: "The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD Stable development branch. Since FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE in November 2004 we have made many improvements in functionality, stability, performance, and device driver support for some hardware, as well as dealt with known security issues and made many bugfixes." Here are the release notes.

Comments

Re:Free BSD

[dmaxwell]

But I always ask this to the Linux guys at my compnay ( ps I also run linux ) why did linux get the market it has now and not BSD ?

Just plain marketing for one. *BSD can and probably is better by any number of measures. "Better" doesn't always equate to "sexier".

The other reason is that GPL can be more business friendly than the BSD license. The trick here is that the GPL is picky about which businesses it is friends with. For strategic reasons, a company like IBM can open something up but place the contribution under the GPL. It is perfectly free from an end user point of view but will require re-implementation on the part of a competitor who wishes to use knowledge from the code in question. This takes nothing away from scenarios where the BSD license is more "business friendly". Personally, I find the "moral" arguments around all of this induce finger drumming. If the choices were BSD or nothing or GPL or nothing then I expect we'd see much less funding of interesting projects by business.

Re:good stuff

[netdur]

microsoft did release UNIX based OS years before they did release ms DOS, and they called it xenix, anyway... to have UNIX as OS doesn't help anything, I have IE6 running over wine on linux, lately when I start it (mainly I use IE to test my web site) IE display pop-ups with different ads every time! my homepage set to "about:blank" so the only thing I can think, I have malware running over wine on my linux box, installed trough some hole in IE, in other hand, surfing net via firefox is secure, whatever your OS is, firefox makes it secure, microsoft is in big trouble they have crapy softwares... "it just work" & "fix it later" wont work, end of microsoft has been start...
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