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FreeBSD 6.2 Released To Mirrors

Posted by kdawson on from the come-and-get-it dept.

AlanS2002 writes "FreeBSD 6.2 has been released to mirrors. The release notes for your specific platform are also available. FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon64, and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PC-98, and UltraSPARC architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development."

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  1. x86 compatible? by Dolda2000 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I would argue that FreeBSD does, in fact, not run on x86 compatible CPUs in general, but rather i386 compatible CPUs. If I'm not vastly misled, x86 means 8086 and forward (16 bit, real mode, no MMU), while i386 basically means IA32.

  2. I noramlly check Distrowatch.com by QueePWNzor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When it comes to these things. I guess that and Slashdot are opposites; distrowatch.com doesn't give a damn for BSD, and Slashdot doesn't give a damn for anything that anybody puts together and calls a distro. FreeBSD is actually a good OS. Mac users use it, Solaris is based around it, and most of Linux is a cheap ripoff of it. (But I still use Linux) So it's good that somebody cares for the forgotten OS. I'd call this a weak excused for a full story, but it's good that somebody cares at all.

  3. with an ad no less by r00t · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Rather than actually tell us what is new, we get:


    "FreeBSD is an advanced [we can argue] operating system [duh] for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon) [yeah, a Pentium is x86 compatible, who'd have thought?], amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon64, and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PC-98, and UltraSPARC architectures. It is derived from BSD, [says that in the name, doesn't it?] the version of UNIX [actually no, this is a trademark reserved for OSes that meet a standard which FreeBSD violates] developed at the University of California, Berkeley. [you no longer need to put that in your advertising] It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals."

    So, as far as we can tell from this ad, nothing has changed other than the version number. I guess that is a sign of life though, kind of, sort of, maybe a bit.