FreeBSD 4.5 NOT Released (Updated)

Jordon Hubbard writes: "The latest release in the FreeBSD 4.X branch has been released after an extensive release engineering process. Important bugfixes for the TCP stack and NFS are included in this release. You can view the release notes and find a mirror here." Update: 01/24 21:42 GMT by Hemos :Fake submissions, not really released. Yah. Comedic value provided for the day.

release notes

[Phexro]

looks like the links on that page are broken, and it seems that 4.5-release hasn't made it's way out to all the ftp sites yet.

in the mean time, here are the relnotes for 4.5-rc3 i386 [freebsd.org] alpha [freebsd.org]

Re:What is a "bikeshed"?

[Anonymous Coward]

The color of a bikeshed is what 99% of all Linux developers spend their time worrying about.

Journalistic Accuracy

[Cato the Elder]

So, which is worse:

Making a few errors and not featuring corrections so prominently

Making so many errors that are so basic that people find out within minutes, but at least you post corrections fast too.

Just a thought, vis a vis michaels article yesterday.

Re:FreeBSD and MacOS X?

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple has also been providing stuff back, with the recent filesystem exerciser utility that Apple provided being used to find a number of bugs in FreeBSD's NFS and softupdates code. It's all good, man!

That's good to hear. I'm looking at migrating from Win32 and Redhat to MacOSX, and one of the things I worry about is trusting big companies with my computing "life". Although I currently HAVE to use Windows for some tasks, I don't trust MS AT ALL. That's my main reason for wanting out. And I'm tired of dual booting. I want to stick with one Operating System, one that has all the features I'm looking for, and (unlike my first choice, BeOS), will stick around for the long haul. Hearing you honestly say good things about Apple is comforting to me as a prospective customer. I trust you, and if you think I should, I will learn to trust Apple.

Not having full access to the source code is a bit of a downer, but Apple is about the only company I understand being closed-source, since (IMHO) if MacOSX was open (not necessarily under an open source license, just *viewable* by the user for security and bug tracking, etc.), it would quickly be ported to x86 and they'd go under just as quick, since their main bag seems to be cool hardware. I think Microsoft, however, just wants to cover their ass (and their many flaws). But that's just my opinion. How is it at Apple so far? Are they cool? I wanna know as much as possible about who I'm buying from. I also think a lot of normal PC users are in the same situation as I'm in, so anything you can say would be immensely helpful.

Graham

Re:Erm, OK, this is bizarre...

[krappie]

What's bizarre is not so much that this is hoax, but that a website managed by such incompetent idiots can be so successful.

What's bizarre is not so much that this website is so successful, but that idiots who frequent it and post can complain about how successful it is.