First Official CD Release of FreeBSD 205
Chris Coleman writes: "Daemon News is pleased to announce the availability of pre-orders for
FreeBSD 4.5. This will be our first release of FreeBSD on CD. We will
be using the official FreeBSD 4.5 ISOs created by the FreeBSD project.
The expected release date for FreeBSD 4.5 is January 20th. We expect to have CDs available two weeks after that.
We are taking pre-orders at this time to help gauge the number of CDs we will need to produce.
You can pre-order CDs here.
CD subscriptions are available here.
Vendor pricing will be handled through cylogistics.com."
just the cd? (Score:2, Interesting)
Is it just the CD? Because I'd rather just donate 40 dollars and download the ISO when I can get it. (Which would seem to be less than 2 weeks after the release).
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Re:just the cd? (Score:2, Interesting)
4.x-install.iso - 4.x ISO 9660 bootable (El Torrito) CDROM image.
4.x-disc2.iso - Live filesystem "Fix it" CD and CVS repository.
4.x-disc3.iso - Extra packages for FreeBSD 4.x
4.x-disc4.iso - Extra packages for FreeBSD 4.x
This probably includes ports, tons of documentation, and everything else that you'd expect from FreeBSD.
Why not a support fee? (Score:2, Interesting)
Native Java ? (Score:4, Interesting)
Time to desert Linux ? (Score:1, Interesting)
Quite frankly it is almost impossible for us (due to time constraints) to keep track of all software updates necessary to keep the firewall and main server secure. The SuSE distributions are at times painful to use for upgrades - As far as I can see the SuSE scripts cant handle all our configurations. We tried on the server to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 SuSE but numerous reconfigurations were required to keep the running e.g. yellow pages - so we didnt upgrade in the end. I guess we would need to sit down several days to do it properly - but simply dont have the time. It is beyond me why distros as SuSE must make it that hard to upgrade. It seems that upgrading involves inevitably to reconfigure half of the system because numerous configuration file formats have changed which the SuSE scripts cant handle. I really wonder why we do pay for distros - only to have several GB of software which we dont install anyway ?
The firewall machine acts as a proxy, masquarading, DSL access point - so I do regard it as the most crucial point to tackle. The firewall log is now spilling out lines as if there is no tomorrow, the fw crashes the DSL regularly over weekend (absolutely no clue why) and we could probably employ another person just to check the logs. I am now thinking about switching over to BSD on the firewall (and possibly later on the server).
My reasoning is that BSD is less exposed since there are fewer systems around and secondly it should be easier to keep track of security problems since development is more centralised. Any views on that ? What would be the choice FreeBSD, OpenBSD ?
Why I like FreeBSD (Score:2, Interesting)
After trying to use Linux (redhat 6x/7x, mandrake 7x/8x, debian, slackware) I found that none were upgradeable as easy as FreeBSD. Try upgrading from Redhat 7.1 -> 7.2. I've had it fail on 3 different machines (at work). Nightmares doing that. Plus everything is changing on a
BSD is just rock solid. It's easy to install, upgrade and use. It has been proven. I can't wait to use 4.5 and try it out. Linux is trying to emulate Windows, and it never will. Linux should find it's niche over time. I know BSD has and it's thriving. Doing everything for everyone is bad, and I know BSD isn't.