From BSDForums: “FreeBSD Release Engineering Team’s Scott Long presents the FreeBSD November-December 2002 status report. Key highlights of the report include the anticipated FreeBSD 5.0 Release Bluetooth stack development, busdma driver conversion project, DEVD, C99 & POSIX Conformance Project, FreeBSD Package Cluster work and much more!”
Nov-Dec 2002 FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Status Report Available
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FreeBSD is a great platform. The ports and kernel configuration are super easy plus it has linux binary support which makes it a great platform without having to miss out any of the linux only apps.
I would like to see more commercial programs ported to FreeBSD. Fortunately, TapeWare is one of them. It’s a pretty nice backup application. If you want check it out, sign up for a version 7.0 beta copy by sending an email to [email protected]. You’ll get the complete app for Windows, NetWare, Linux, Solaris SPARC/Intel and FreeBSD. It has a console UI and X GUI, and web interface. For the list of certified tape devices and autoloaders, check out: http://www.tapeware.com/devices/
KGI is a really interesting project. I’d love to see FreeBSD with a native graphics system that it could boot right into…with an e17 desktop, and some good gui admin tools. That’s my vision for a perfect FreeBSD.