FreeBSD 7.2 Released

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."

Comments

Re:I really wish BSD would take off.

[aliquis]

Except, like, you know:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_180.51.html
But maybe a binary Nvidia driver from 21st april 2009 is too old an un-maintained for you?

And where would FreeBSD fail as a desktop OS?

http://www.freebsd.org/ports/
20.000+ ports not enough for you?

And they make a point of not binary closed drivers to, OpenBSD crew have made a lot of wifi progress by reverse engineering instead of having closed stuff, and Linux have been able to take lots of advantage of their work. They are proud of their drivers and open-source solutions vs accepting only having a closed solution.

So, very insightful of you... I seriously doubt you've got any idea whatsoever why BSD would be better as a server either, not to mention the BSDs out there are pretty different and it wouldn't make sense to group them together like that, they don't have the same advantages. I guess it's just something you've happened to have heard somewhere, but yes, FreeBSD used to be considered superior as "a server" a long time ago, FreeBSD 5 probably lost some of that but I would assume they have catched up by now. But it all depends on what you need and how you set the system up in general anyway.

Re:just my two cents

[phantomcircuit]

You're aware that linux 2.6.3 has a group limit of 32 right? That's really not much better than 16, which can be changed by recompiling the kernel.

Re:I really wish BSD would take off.

[drinkypoo]

You can't get more elitist by using a cast-off product that's less open. That's like fighting for peace or fucking for virginity, it just doesn't work (although I'm willing to take part in the latter activity.) OpenSolaris is not a serious attempt by Sun to produce another Open Unix, it's an attack on Linux. Otherwise they could have released ZFS under a compatible license. Guess what? Unix is about Openness. Sun done forgot.