FreeBSD 6.2 Released To Mirrors

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 14, 2007 @04:18PM 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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Re:I noramlly check Distrowatch.com by BrainInAJar · 2007-01-14 18:41 · Score: 5, Insightful

FreeBSD is actually a good OS.
Yes, it's very nice

Mac users use it,
No they don't, they use Mach with a BSD api wrapper

Solaris is based around it,
No it's not, Solaris was on the SysV side of the SysV/BSD Unix wars (not a bad thing, Solaris is nice too)

and most of Linux is a cheap ripoff of it.
No, Linux is a school project based loosely off SunOS & Minix