Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th May 2009 09:42 UTC, submitted by Extend
Last week it was BSD week: OpenBSD 4.5, NetBSD 5.0, and DragonFlyBSD 2.2.1. FreeBSD 7.2 completes the picture, with every major BSD now having a new and fresh release waiting to be installed on your desktop, laptop, or server.
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Technically, the whole ports tree is "3rd party" and not part of the base system, so all tools that manage it, etc... are also 3rd party. Sure, you have the basic csup installed to download and portsnap, but anything else is 3rd party.
I would easily use FreeBSD exclusively as it's a superior OS to Linux in many ways. OSS vs. ALSA just being one of many. How come OSS can do hardware virtual devices and ALSA has to relay on a PoS program sound server sitting on top of it to do the same?
However, I digress. Flash is a pervasive part of the web and many sites I use require it to some extent or another, so I rather give them a Linux / Flash traffic hit vs. dual-booting into Windows and giving them those traffic stats.
I don't understand why Adobe can't just release a "beta", even only downloaded from their dev site, of Flash for FreeBSD. We're all more or less power users and would be happy to give feedback. If it was even 80% stable I would be happy with it.