FreeBSD 4.9-BETA i386 ISO With Packages Available

Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engg. Team's Murray Stokely has put together a FreeBSD 4.9-BETA ISO image for i386 with the latest package build provided by portmgr@. If you haven't yet given 4.9PRE a try, hopefully this will encourage you to do so!"

Re:What I know about *BSD

[tarius8105]

1. You can not play games on it.

Not true, but then again BSD operating systems were never meant for a gaming workstation, more on the lines of running the internet.

2. It cannot be used by my grandma.

I doubt your grandmother could use linux or windows either way.

3. It lacks a GUI of any note.

GUI is for the people who have to have others hold their hand. BSD doesnt need a GUI, but you can get Xwindows installed with it if you wanted it.

4. There is no support available for it.

Correction, there is no free support. This is true of Windows and Linux. However, there are mailing lists and chat rooms, much like there is for Windows and Linux.

5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes.

Uhh get your facts straight idiot. BSD was developed from AT&T Unix.

6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform.

Maybe not the very first BSD operating system, but now any BSD os can run on x86, including Darwin. Hence get your facts straight

7. You have to compile everything and know C.

Compiling everything is a good thing, it allows for applications to be more robust, it allows for features to be added instead of packaged without some features.

8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor.

Maybe support for latest 3d video cards, but its always had good support for server hardware.

9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.

Actually FreeBSD with linux compat libraries is faster then Linux. Get your facts straight.

10.It is dying.

Linux is dying, windows is dying, I'm dying, you're dying, everything will die. Your point? Exactly that, you have no point.

Re:What I know about *BSD

[Anonymous Coward]

FreeBSD with Linux compat libraries faster than Linux? How so? This [freebsd.org] guy doesn't think so.

Re:FreeBSD -- last vestige of communism

[Anonymous Coward]

Take your BSD socialism and shove it up where the sun don't shine!!!

Onto my hard drive? Done.

w00t thumps up for the FreeBSD team and...

[horcy]

...going to download and test it right now!!!! FreeBSD rox. 30% of all webservers run FreeBSD and the numbers are going up woooooooooo!!!!!!

Re:w00t thumps up for the FreeBSD team and...

[Roelof]

No, no. It's just that their users are in veritable IT heaven!

It is not quite the same you know.

Roelof

Re:w00t thumps up for the FreeBSD team and...

[inertia187]

FreeBSD rocks. Now, if we could do something about all the trolls.

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Danger Will Robinson - TOO MANY BUGS

[Anonymous Coward]

Do not even attempt to download this UNLESS you have done a full backup. The IDE bugs in this release are not fixed yet and you could lose EVERYTHING. Backup is a must.

A word to the wise . . .

soekris PXE boot

[Anonymous Coward]

okay this is a little obscure but is anyone having problems with pxeboot and Soekris 4501 boards? I can only get the little guy to boot with 4.8-RELEASE, everything after including 4.9-PRE is not working for me. I've compiled it with the right flags and everything.

Re:soekris PXE boot

[trippinonbsd]

You might want to have a chat with this guy. [e-mail] [mailto] the writter of the minibsd [neon1.net] tutorial.

Already installed last night

[Green Light]

I already found & installed this gem last night.

The only problem that I had is that at the beginning of the install, an error was reported that the FireWire driver couldn't load. That was okay with me, since I have no FireWire hardware in the box.

Install, configuration, pkg_add of KDE & Mozilla all went smoothly on a stock Dell PowerEdge 400SC.

Re:Already installed last night

[Green Light]

Umm, I don't think I did...

Hey, but even if I did, so what? I like installing things!

4.8

[craig2787]

I'm running 4.8R here and loving it. I have every intention of putting 4.9 on when it becomes official, though I fear that PAE and ACPI might make it a little buggy. If enough people testify that it rocks like its older counterpart does, then 4.9 here I come!