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FreeBSD 5.4 Review

Posted by timothy on from the freebers-creepers dept.

gammelgul writes "Jem Matzan has written a review of the new FreeBSD 5.4 release on NewsForge. He writes about enhancements and the 64bit edition of the OS."

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  1. Re:This is my experience with FreeBSD by argent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One employee lost a whole project due to the OS corrupting the filesystem. ... A few days later I was looking for another job

    So you were fired because you hadn't been making backups, right?

  2. Re:This is my experience with FreeBSD by raydobbs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Real advice here: don't be a ding-dong and use a test-grade OS for a production-grade job. FreeBSD 4.x is production grade, and it has served me well for YEARS of uptime, no matter the tinkering I do to it.

  3. FreeBSD is always dead on /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does anyone who actually has a service provider/network engineering job even care about these fbsd is dead/dying lines of thought anymore? FreeBSD has been quietly running a good chunk of the net for years. If your idea of a solid OS is something to run whatever the latest eye-candy is on your desktop then good for you, go compile Gentoo until you turn blue. For me, and a lot of folks like me, if I can run a web server that never fails, a DNS farm that never fails, mail servers that never fail, etc, etc then I could care less if my iPod doesn't automount or whatever other new technology isn't supported.

  4. Jem Matzan by essdodson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everyone pleae stop reading reviews done by this guy. They're uninformative, biased, and it's blatently obvious he's unwilling to actually learn FreeBSD beyond installing it two or three times each new release and writing a review catering to the already pre-established opinions of Linux users.

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    scott