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FreeBSD 5.4 Review

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. GNAA Congratulates the Debian Project on the Relea by vithos · · Score: -1, Troll
    GNAA Congratulates the Debian Project on the Release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sarge"

    BATON ROUGE, LA - June 6, 2005 - The Gay Nigger Association of America extended today its congratulations to the Debian Project regarding its 8th consecutive release of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. The latest incarnation of Debian, codenamed "Sarge", had been eagerly anticipated for approximately 6,000 years by both unwashed GNU/Hippies and fizzlebearded Open Source aficionados alike. So far the reception of "Sarge" has ranged from indifferent to uninterested, but the release has managed to draw the attention of many fundamentalist Christians, who have long seen the release of a new version of Debian as one of the major signs of the apocalypse.

    "Sarge" is notable for greatly expanding upon the Debian policy of creating distributions that are obsolete before they are even released - a practice which, while not particularly desirable, has been enthusiastically received by nostalgic collectors of outdated open source software, as well as the National Association for Marketing Buggy Linux Applications, or NAMBLA. Debian project leader Branden Robinson defended the policy, however, in an impromptu GNAA interview which was conducted at his home. When asked to comment on Debian's slow adoption of new software, he was quoted as saying, "Look, the fact is that the open source development model is so ineffective that just as many new bugs are probably created in each release as old ones are fixed, so it all evens out. Right? Um - please stop touching my leg. No I'm not homophobic, I just - hey, I said cut it out! No, stop! I'm saving myself for Bruce Perens! HELP!"

    About Debian

    The Debian project was started in 1993 by Ian Murdock, who was unsatisfied with the level of political bickering and useless hand-wringing found in other projects at the time. The Debian Project has grown steadily over the years and currently consists of over 1,000 developers and maintainers, yet contains more bugs and is more out of date than the older Slackware distribution, which is produced by a single maintainer with a chronic bacterial infection. Debian's use has been on the decline due to users being fed up with its sluggish release process and political drama, but it has nevertheless received the accolade of those Linux users who have not yet discovered the existence of superior and more modern distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora Core, and Windows Server 2003.

    About GNAA:
    GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

    Are you GAY ?
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    If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
    Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
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  2. About time by m50d · · Score: 0, Troll

    You know you're trailing when even windows has a port to a new architecture before you do.

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    1. Re:About time by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 0, Troll

      Heck, even debian might release an amd64 official port one day (give 'em time though it's only been 2 years since every other linux vendor did it).

      Anyone realeasing after that must *really* be behind the curve!

  3. Interesting by selectspec · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hmmm... You can keep the source code, but where do I download the free beer? All kidding aside, should I upgrade my toaster now to 5.4? Oh, wait that's NetBSD. Hmmm.... maybe my toaster needs a pentium. If my toaster had a pentium it would certainly make better toast than it does with those lame coils. What's up with that. Remember when toasters worked? Put a pentium in every toaster damn it! Lets get toast dark again. Well... I'm not downloading 5.4. I had some bad BSD once, and ever since I still am convinced my sea monkeys can talk to me. Maybe it wont be so bad now that they took the devil (beasty) out, but aren't the deamons still in there?

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  4. Re:GNAA Congratulates the Debian Project on the Re by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    yea, mod it UP, shit was funny as fuck :)