Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 14th May 2002 06:30 UTC
The question was asked recently on a FreeBSD mailing list, "What will be new in FreeBSD 5.0?" The thread discussed several ways a person could obtain such information, one good source being the latest release notes. The first developer preview of 5.0 was released on April 8th. The final release is targeted for the end of this year. Robert Watson offered an interesting summary of items to look forward to in FreeBSD 5.0, including: SMPng ("next generation" symmetric multiprocessing), KSE (improved scheduling), devfs (automatic /dev management), Firewire support, and much more. Read on KernelTrap for more details.
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"If anything, BSD is on the upward trend."
If anything, BSD is on the virge of dethroneing Linux. After all, with Microsoft throwing their support behind FreeBSD and porting .NET and C# to FreeBSD. A lot of Linux zealots will probably downplay this and try to say it won't matter. But Linus himself seemed to be concerned over it (remember his childish comments and his temper tantrum he threw after Microsoft announced they would support FreeBSD with .NET and C#.)
Of course, Apple is also using BSD in a very big way.