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NetBSD v3.0 Released
FullMetalAlchemist writes "After six release candidates, the NetBSD project has finally released a gold version of a major mile stone; v3.0. I'm looking forward to this release a good deal. If I wanted to, I could build our entire office infrastructure on it thanks to Xen. Major Changes can be found on the NetBSD website, and there are several ways to get the release. Get downloading!"
Ooooooh, a gold version...
Because I'm drinking Scotch and it makes sencse!!!!!!!!!!!
Why should I care about NetBSD? Linux runs on more platforms, and doesn't make audio skip if you try to rip a CD at the same time...
See Above!
Due: rxplain, plese?
Ahhhh,ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhl. I'm here.
The /. GODS are sending me away.
You suck complete ass. Thank you, that is all.
Does it run Linux?
(sorry, it's Christmas so the posting volume is low, and I had to get it in because I've got 'owt else better to do!)
"I see a vacant seat," replied the Ghost, "in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, *BSD will die."
"No, no," said Scrooge. "Oh, no, kind Spirit! say it will be spared."
"If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race," returned the Ghost, "will find him here. What then? If it be like to die, it had better do it, and decrease the surplus operating system population."
Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief. It was sad to see any operating system die, even one so obviously flawed and useless as *BSD.
God bless us, every one.
Seriously, why bother with this *BSD stuff anymore. No one is using it today, no one used it yesterday, and no one will use it tomorrow. Just please update your OS to Windows XP like the rest of the known world. I'm sure the 12 people using this OS have been holding their breath for this release, the rest of the world just doesn't care. I'm sure I will be modded down for this, the truth may hurt but it will set you free.
*BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personae?
The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead.
As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.