FreeBSD 5.3 on the Horizon

underpar writes "ZDNet UK is reporting that FreeBSD is nearing a code freeze. August 15th is the deadline which will be followed by the usual beta testing and a final release hoped for by October 1st. ZDNet interviewed the software engineer leading the release work, Scott Long, for the article. He says: 'The 5.3 release will be the first one where we see the real benefits of that. The multithreaded network stack will outperform everything we've done before, for running applications such as Apache or MySQL.' Status reports can be found on the FreeBSD website." I've been using the last technology release of FreeBSD for some time now, and am really looking forward to the 5.3 release, as well as the 5-STABLE branch that's rumored to follow soon after.

Hell's Frozen Over!

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Apache on FreeBSD

[Bull999999]

I tried that but I got the "DON'T_LISTEN_TO_TROLLS" error.

Re:Java support?

[dan_sdot]

Please don't make me stick with Red Hat 9 of all things.

Ok, fine. I'll buy you a copy of Windows XP.

Re:snap!

[underpar]

See.. I'm about to install something on a very sad looking box sitting in the corner. I was thinking about Linux, but the cute little devil makes me think I should try FreeBSD. Is it wrong to choose an OS based on the mascot?

Re:Speaking of the horizon...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's an open secret Netcraft just copies all their statistics out of the Farmer's Almanac.

Re:snap!

[captnitro]

Absolutely not. In fact, the mental image on my end is Tux, Clippy, and Daemon fighting it out.

Tux is gone; he's cute, but has no defensive weaponry. Furthermore, he can't even fly, all he can do is repeat the Futurama quote to himself --

Penguin: Full of fish?
Bender: Not entirely.
Penguin: Then let's fish.

So it's down to Clippy and BSD Daemon, and maybe that Apple and his friend Darwin the platypus in the corner who're both giving moral support, but they're setting off fireworks because they like eyecandy and have a short attention span.

Pretty much, the Daemon unwinds Clippy and uses him to open a stuck CD-ROM drive.

NetBSD logo

[r00t]

If you want to see "terminal decay", check out the NetBSD logo!

NetBSD.jpg [netbsd.org]

BSD status ;-)

[nusratt]

as always . . . [horrordvds.com]

Re:Hell's Frozen Over!

[discogravy]

no, that would be a debian release. (said, posting from a sarge box....)

Re:FreeBSD vs Linux - my findings

[hugo_pt]

by stability you mean a new way to get root on linux every month?

Re:Explain something!

[sp0rk173]

You've got to be more precise than BSD 4.4...because that was a realease of BSD back in the early 90's as I recall, and just about every version of *BSD after that is some what based on "4.4 BSD".

The current stable 4.x version of FreeBSD is 4.10. So, did you mean they based their code on FreeBSD 4.4? Because..i mean...to a certain extent Solaris is based on 4.4 BSD...but not at all on FreeBSD 4.4...and uh...whatnot.

Re:FreeBSD Daemon

[Secrity]

Do you honestly believe that a talking paperclip is less evil than the FreeBSD Daemon?