FreeBSD Oct-Dec 2005 Status Report Available

An anonymous reader writes "The latest FreeBSD Status Report is available, covering updates for the last quarter of 2005. A quiet time, for the most part, but some interesting news on the TCP Optimization, and Xen, fronts."

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BSD at SCALE 4x

[Anonymous Coward]

NetBSD and FreeBSD will have an exhibit at SCALE 4x

Re:Why do I care about FreeBSD?

[toadlife]

"Why do we need FreeBSD?"

So we don't have to run linux.

"What does it do that Linux doesn't?"

Things right.

"Who actually uses FreeBSD?"

People who like UNIX.

I wish I could use BSD

[John Nowak]

Unfortunately, I am on the PPC platform (I own a Powerbook).

BSDs do not support the following for my Powebook:
* Sleep/suspend
* Firewire
* Airport Extreme (linux barely does, but it is getting there)
* Bluetooth
* Processor scaling
* Internal modem (not that I care)

Unfortunately, for a laptop to be useful for me, it needs to be able to go to sleep. For it not to eat batteries, I need to be able to adjust the processor speed. Right now, I'm running Ubuntu (I did a server install -- it is basically Debian with an up to date kernel that supports sleep and all other non-wifi functions out of the box as far as I'm concerned), and I'm quite happy.

Re:I wish I could use BSD

[CoolVibe]

Don't rule out FreeBSD on sparc64. sparc64 is a tier 1 platform nowadays.

Re:Useful improvements

[CoolVibe]

Server? I use it as a workstation. KDE runs like a charm on it.

slightly offtopic

[kv9]

the netbsd status report for q3/q4 2005 is also available.

Re:Why do I care about FreeBSD?

[Arandir]

Who actually uses FreeBSD?

I do, and that's all that matters to me. Why the hell do you care what other people are using? Find your own operating system and be content with it.