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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It would be nice if this (and other FreeBSD release threads) commented on whats new instead of endlessly banging on about Flash, e.g. superpages and multiple IPs for jails are quite interesting in my opinion.
They are, but they don't matter to the end user, the desktop end user. Progress of ZFS and dtrace are other interesting things, but they do matter to server admins and developers only, and they're a minority, because they don't have oh joy oh market share. :-)
Another point of view could be given by explaining wqhat FreeBSD can do what other operating systems can't do (or can't do so easily).
Finally, I'd like to point everyone's attention at FreeBSD's excellent documentation: Handbook in multiple languages, FAQ, manpages for every bit of the OS (programs, maintenance procedures, tuning advices, device drivers, kernel interfaces, library functions, configuration files etc.) - everything locally accessible right after installation. This is one of the things that helped FreeBSD to become my favourite OS. As a developer, good documentation is an essential part of the OS.
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2008-03-15
It would be nice if this (and other FreeBSD release threads) commented on whats new instead of endlessly banging on about Flash, e.g. superpages and multiple IPs for jails are quite interesting in my opinion.
Edited 2009-05-05 10:16 UTC