FreeBSD 5.2.1 Released

Kalev writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. This is intended to address several bugs and vulnerabilities discovered in the FreeBSD 5.2 release. See the Release Notes. The release is now available for downloading. If you are currently running FreeBSD 5.x, you can easily cvsup to it or use binary upgrade feature of sysinstall."

Re:What a shame

[Anonymous Coward]

Comments about BSD dying are biased blabberings of blithering linux losers.

Repeat after me, "BSD creates, Linux leaches, Microsoft profits"

I feel pretty secure with FreeBSD, given that since the 5.2 release on January 12th eight people have committed as contributors, 1 to documentation, 1 to ports and 6 to src. During which only one member resigned. Indication that FreeBSD is growing, not dying.

FreeBSD will chug right along as it has for over ten years. Linux on the otherhand will bloat, splinter, and implode.

Re:Unfortunately

[anthonyrcalgary]

Even Theo deRadt is talking about a combined *BSD userland utility team.

oh god I hope not. They'd kill each other over philosophical issues.

Re:Point point releases?

[cant_get_a_good_nick]

Remember? I'm still dealing with it... Oi!

Re:Point point releases?

[cperciva]

Heh, even a "bad" release of FreeBSD is still pretty good compared, oh, say, a bad RedHat release

A "bad" release of FreeBSD is pretty good even compared to a "good" RedHat release.

(In my defense re: forgetting about 4.1.1, I was thinking about point-releases-due-to-problems, not point-releases-due-to-added-features.)

A prediction.

[Anonymous Coward]

I predict 5.x will become the stable branch of FreeBSD before the 2.6.x kernel gets adopted by any major Linux distro >:)