January-February 2003 FreeBSD Status Report

Dan writes "FreeBSD's Scott Long provides the Jan-Feb 2003 bi-monthly FreeBSD status report. Highlights include focus on making 5.0 faster via more fine-grained locking, adding high-end features like memort support for i386. FreeBSD 5.1 is expected to ship in late May, early June, with 5.2 following end of summer with significant speed and stability improvements over 5.0. FreeBSD 4.8 release due shortly adds XFree86 4.3.0 and intel hyperthreading support. Major FreeBSD project statuses are also provided in this report."

Looking forward to 4.8

[Anonymous Coward]

To put on my laptop. Great OS, fast and supremely stable.

Come on, someone else must want to post a comment here!

Re:Looking forward to 4.8

[Arandir]

Let's see. It's extremely stable and robust. But more so than Debian? Hard to say. I would say "yes", but that's my opinion. So let's assume it's equally as stable as Debian. Let's move on to other stuff.

FreeBSD has complete documentation. I've never seen any Linux distro even come close to FreeBSD in terms of documenation. FreeBSD doesn't believe in the GNU idea that man pages are bad. There are man pages for everything in the OS. And they're good man pages. Then you have an excellent handbook, faq, and m

Re:In case of Slashdotting...

[essdodson]

I was playing with my USB mouse a good 6 months before my Linux zealot friends were franticly recompiling their kernels to checkout the long over due USB support.

FreeBSD

[thanjee]

I am just waiting patiently for FreeBSD 5.x to become the stable version.

I am also waiting for MIDI to start working properly too. As soon as MIDI works there will be no need for me to use any other OS.

Yes, I know the documentation states how to add MIDI to the kernel, but the code behind it just doesn't seem to be written yet, cos it does nothing.....oh well, also waiting patiently for that.

January-February 2003 FreeBSD Status Report

[MainframeKiller]

I thought FreeBSD was dead?