Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

FreeBSD 7.2 Released

Posted by timothy on from the quite-up-to-date dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: Support for fully transparent use of superpages for application memory; Support for multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for jails; csup(1) now supports CVSMode to fetch a complete CVS repository; Gnome updated to 2.26, KDE updated to 4.2.2; Sparc64 now supports UltraSparc-III processors. For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list." Adds another anonymous reader, "You can grab the latest version from FreeBSD from the mirrors or via BitTorrent. There is also a quick review of the new features and upgrade instructions."

6 of 204 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I really wish BSD would take off. by _merlin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    At least the BSD-user chicks are hotter than their Linux-loving counterparts.

  2. Re:Yaaaaay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    FreeBSD just isn't ready for the desktop yet. It may be ready for the web servers that you nerds use to distribute your TRON fanzines and personal Dungeons and Dragons web-sights across the world wide web, but the average computer user isn't going to spend months learning how to use a CLI and then hours compiling packages so that they can get a workable graphic interface to check their mail with, especially not when they already have a Windows machine that does its job perfectly well and is backed by a major corporation, as opposed to FreeBSD which is only supported by a few unemployed nerds living in their mother's basement somewhere. The last thing I want is a level 5 dwarf (haha) providing me my OS.

  3. Re:I really wish BSD would take off. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck FreeBSD, 5 and 7.0 are pig disgusting. The only good things left in FreeBSD are either ripped straight from OpenBSD or are reinventions of Linux.

  4. Re:Yaaaaay! by finarfinjge · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You wrote:

    "What is the motivation of this person to post this kind of post these days. I don't get it, anyone care to explain?"

    Obviously you haven't asked for help on the mailing lists or usenet with this OS. Personally, I thought his post was fairly restrained. I dumped FreeBSD after 6 years a couple of months back. A straight forward security update and suddenly I don't have a working X, most of my programs core dump and I can't get at anything. And the help on the mailing lists and usenet? X isn't part of the OS. You shouldn't run programs (i.e. Xorg) that aren't supported.

    Run, don't walk from FreeBSD. It is a rotting hulk of a once proud thing and should be allowed to die in dignity.

    Cheers

    JE

  5. I'm stunned it actually made it to the front page by rivaldufus · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    but not surprised that everyone here is blasting it. Linux fanboys have grown to embrace the MS way, I guess.

    If I can't click on my little gnome wizard and have it turn the box into a bloated desktop with a single click, I'm not happy!

    Pretty ironic.

  6. Re:I'm stunned it actually made it to the front pa by Brandybuck · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I love the way they always say "Fubuntu Linux is sooooo popular! You should use what everyone else is using!"

    Funny, Windows has more users than Linux, so why aren't they following their own advice and use Windows?

    --
    Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!