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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. FreeBSD's race to "oblivion" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    All joking aside, FreeBSD really is "dying" in a certain sense. After Jordan and Mike left, the project has been a shambles. The best way to describe FreeBSD kernel code now is "shabby". Matt is a brilliant perfectionist who wants to do the right thing. The current state of FreeBSD kept him from pursuing excellence.

    Unfortunately the FreeBSD core has come to be dominated by political types who are short on engineering skills. They gave Matt the air and locked him out of CVS. The FreeBSD kernel is currently full of ugly expedient hacks *and* several intractable bugs.

    Of all the BSD kernels, FreeBSD can now be considered the most hackish and ill conceived. It wasn't always this way, of course. But presently the FreeBSD development environment continues to favor the political solution over the technically correct one. OpenBSD and NetBSD both do much better on quality issues. I suspect that DragonFly will come to be highly regarded as the latter two as well.