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FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE Now Available

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the put-the-daemon-back-in-the-box dept.

cperciva writes "FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE, the fourth release from the highly successful 6-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, has been released. In addition to being available from many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."

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  1. Yes sirree... by dosius · · Score: 4, Insightful

    BSD is alive and well!

    -uso.

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  2. Re:Wait, what? by mdenham · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It still is. In the same fashion any of the rest of us without a terminal illness are.

  3. A very niche OS by slashuzer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is good to see FreeBSD keep on going, but I cannot help but feel that all BSDs, to some extent, have become a very niche, and bit of a dead-end OS. Today if someone wants to move away from windows, they can go to Linux (free) or Mac (not-free). Aside from server space, what does BSD bring to the average desktop user? Let's just say I want to move to a free OS, what exactly does FreeBSD offer that is not already available with any number of Linux distributions? And what purpose do two similar OS (Linux, BSD) serve when they pretty much appeal to the same segment of computer users. Truly, sometimes I wonder if it might not be better to have *one* OSS alternative to Windows instead of having the developer resources working on two, parallel, different-under-the-surface-but-similar-in-usage operating systems .

  4. Re:Wait, what? by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought BSD was dying? It is dying. Just like this is the 10th consecutive Year of Linux.
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  5. It's a distro. by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What you've just described is exactly what any modern distro worth its salt does.

    Any changes in kernel are immediately reflected in userland utilities -- check. Not "immediately" as in "the day they're released" -- more like, by the time they hit your distro's repository, they generally work together. Any "guesswork" at that point is a bug.

    Consistency is also a feature of the distribution, not the OS. Gentoo might have stuff in a different place than Ubuntu, but Ubuntu has everything in the same place as Ubuntu. Your comment would mean more if you said that FreeBSD had everything the same as OpenBSD and NetBSD, but in any case, I find any BSD (including OS X) to have a number of quirks in the commandline utilities that are unique to *BSD, and do not show up on Linux.

    So, another way of looking at it is that FreeBSD is as consistent as, say, Ubuntu, with regards to itself. But Ubuntu is more consistent with the majority of *nix distros, by user or by kind, mostly because Linux has more users and distros than anything else.

    Your example of having to hunt for config files in /var/www/httpd is a bit disingenuous -- or at least, I've never used a good distro that had Apache's configuration anywhere other than /etc/httpd or /etc/apache, or some variant thereof (like /etc/apache2) -- in any case, easily something I'd expect to find with tab-completion. Same with dhcp servers -- unless I installed a really strange one, it's going to be somewhere in /etc/dhcpd, or it's going to be named after the particular dhcp server (like /etc/dnsmasq).

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  6. Re:Looking forward to 7.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wow, they're finally back and beating the crap out of Linux again. That's awesome!