FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE Now Available

cperciva writes "FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE, the fourth release from the highly successful 6-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, has been released. In addition to being available from many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."

Wait, what?

[Seumas]

I thought BSD was dying? I've been on Slashdot for a decade and I precisely recall hearing that BSD was dying a few hundred thousand times.

Re:Wait, what?

[jd]

You see, if it dies more than 32767 times, you get an overflow, the sign bit flips and it becomes alive again. This is the problem with using fixed-length integers. If computers were using variable-length precision, you wouldn't get this problem.

Re:A very niche OS

[jcgf]

FreeBSD has the advantage of not being for bitches. [linuxisforbitches.com]

That's the main reason I use it ;)

Re:Well, this is slashdot after all

[kace]

So I take it that 2008 will be the Year of the BSD Desktop?

I'm thinking yes and hell yes. PC-BSD is going to be carried in Fry's and Microcenter (for starters).

And, whenever one is choosing an OS, even for the desktop, you've got consider what sort [pcbsdbabe.com] of crowd [pcbsdgirl.com] you'll be getting mixed up with.

"Unleash your desktop with PC-BSD! [spreadbsd.org]"

Re:Wait, what?

[hey!]

Well, the most likely explanation woudl seem to be that BSD has joined the ranks of undead operating systems.

So while it cannot be said in strict truth to be "alive and kicking", it nonetheless is still "kicking", and will continue to do so until somebody can devise the operating system equivalent of a wooden stake through the heart.

That'd be something involving unresolved intellectual property rights, I suppose, although there is little chance at this late date that might happen. If vampires could only be killed by wood from the descendants of a particular tree, they could breath, er rest easily once that line was extinct.