Busy BSD: New FreeBSD Status Report

edhall cut-and-pastes "After a six-month hiatus, a new FreeBSD Status Report has just been issued, along with a promise to resume its bi-monthly publication. As the report itself makes obvious, a lot has happened over the last six months. Progress has been happening along many fronts; those groups making reports include: [snip] These are, of course, just the projects that remembered to send in a report -- there are many more ongoing efforts than listed here; see this page for a fuller but not necessarily complete list (you'll note that there are status reports for projects not listed there, such as the AMD64 port)."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Case Mod for *BSD Hardware

[Sean Riordan]

Funny pic!

Appropriate in a way as well, since the rumor of the untimely demise of *BSD is so persistant. Maybe that explains the uptime of all the FreeBSD based Apache [netcraft.com] boxes out there. They are so stable they keep running even from the grave.

That explains much. :-)

BusyBSD

[shlong]

I like the headline. Kudos.

Re:what I know about *BSD

[Anonymous Coward]

1. You can not play games on it.

You can play just about all the games that can be played on Linux.

2. It cannot be used by my grandma.

If your grandma knows how to use Linux, she can figure out FreeBSD. Most grandmas don't use computers at all.

3. It lacks a GUI of any note.

If X (which has been around longer than windows and has been fully functional from the start, quite unlike Windows) is not a GUI of any note, then Unix is "dying".

4. There is no support available for it.

There is support avail

Some of my favorites...

[_Sharp'r_]

Some of my favorites included in the list are:

AMD64 port
Java Project
ACPI Status Report
FreeBSD ports monitoring system

Just to be a little off-topic, while installing my new Highpoint 1540 SATA RAID controller this afternoon, I noticed an option to mount (yeah, "man mount". I read the article, too.) in the man pages that I hadn't noticed before, mount -o snapshot lets you mount up a snapshot of a filesystem.

I'm sure it's been around forever, but it's new to me! Check it out. It appears to just about rival