News.com looks
at FreeBSD 6.0. "FreeBSD developer Scott Long said on Thursday
that the next version of the open-source BSD-based operating system,
planned for release in September, includes support for "a lot more"
wireless cards and for wireless security standards such as the Wi-Fi
Protected Access (WPA)."
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FreeBSD 6.0 to target wireless devices (News.com)
Posted Aug 19, 2005 21:06 UTC (Fri) by gte223j (guest, #6492)
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"includes support for "a lot more" wireless cards"
I wonder if this is because of OpenBSD's fight.........no props were given.....
Posted Aug 23, 2005 12:48 UTC (Tue) by bohra (guest, #31342)
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Well not quite, the OpenBSD people consider the wireless drivers included in FreeBSD "not free" as only the APIs are open and not the entire source code.
And their activism has had no effect (at least till now)