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FreeBSD 8.0 released
The FreeBSD Project has announced
the release of FreeBSD 8.0. "This next major release branch of
FreeBSD delivers a large number of new technologies into the hands of an
ever-increasing number of users. Key release focuses include wireless
networking, virtualization, and storage technology." See the release notes
for more information.
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FreeBSD 8.0 released Posted Nov 27, 2009 20:14 UTC (Fri) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link]
Nice, I'd love to see some benchmarks.
Is Fedora10 still supported?
FreeBSD 8.0 released Posted Nov 27, 2009 20:33 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
By Fedora Project, yes but only for a short while since Fedora 12 is already out.
FreeBSD 8.0 released Posted Nov 30, 2009 18:11 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]
Even if it were f12, why would they target something so ephermeral as a Fedora release?
Seems like this would be the perfect place to target a real software Rock of Gibraltar. Like, say, Debian. Or maybe CentOS. But somehow Debian seems like a better fit with FreeBSD.
But to target a distro release whose remaining users are just about to get pushed off of it by
FreeBSD 8.0 released Posted Nov 30, 2009 18:51 UTC (Mon) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]
You don't need to bash Fedora and Red Hat every opportunity you get. You migrated off of Fedora, and you've been harping on it for many months.
Move on.
FreeBSD 8.0 released Posted Nov 30, 2009 19:27 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]
Your post is out of line and irrelevant to the subject at hand. If a conservative and long
release cycle project like FreeBSD is going to standardize on a binary compatibility environment, why should the standard be based upon the most ephemeral Linux distro in existence, and in particular, a version which has less than one month of life left to it, rather than upon a target which is slower moving and guraranteed to have a real-life user base, and thus packages targeting it, for years to come?
That I feel that the Fedora distro is poorly managed and not of particularly high quality is not
FreeBSD 8.0 released Posted Dec 1, 2009 7:47 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
A very opinionated post calling for "sticking to facts". The irony is rich.
FreeBSD 8.0 released Posted Dec 1, 2009 18:48 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]
Answer the pertinant question, Rahul. Here it is again, just in case you missed it:
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It's a very valid question. And for some reason, some people want to dance around it,
FreeBSD 8.0 released Posted Dec 1, 2009 23:47 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
I don't see why I am expected to answer a FreeBSD decision. It is clear that they disagree with you and find Fedora suitable for their requirements and they are free to take advantage of it.
I am just pointing out that you are presenting your opinions as facts and discarding others opinions as somehow less relevant than yours. That isn't helpful for any discussion.
FreeBSD 8.0 released Posted Dec 4, 2009 8:16 UTC (Fri) by rganesan (subscriber, #1182) [Link]
I don't know past history of sbergman27 with respect to Fedora but his post here makes perfect sense. I don't see it as Fedora bashing. The argument is valid even if FreeBSD were to support Ubuntu. They're better off targeting long term releases like Debian or RHEL (or Ubuntu LTS for that matter).
FreeBSD 8.0 released Posted Nov 30, 2009 19:11 UTC (Mon) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]
I would dream to see an interesting benchmark like http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ refreshed ...
FreeBSD 8.0 released Posted Dec 4, 2009 5:29 UTC (Fri) by SkyGuy (subscriber, #60773) [Link] Don't know how interesting it is, but there is a FreeBSD 8.0 benchmark here:http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd8_benchmarks&num=1
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