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FreeBSD 8.0 – Code Freeze – Whats cooking? Why FreeBSD? Why are you using linux?

FreeBSD 8.0 – Code freeze [www.evilcoder.org]

In continued preparation to the FreeBSD 8.0 Release, the tree had been frozen by re@. This means that development had been slowed down a lot because everything needs to be reviewed by the Release Engineers first. This step will make sure that the system will get as stable as possible before a fork will be done to RELENG_8. Stay tuned!

What's cooking for FreeBSD 8? Plenty. Jails v2, Xen dom-U support, ULE 3.0, and DTrace will all likely make it into the release, not to mention all the other new features, stability and code improvements. What else is cooking in FreeBSD 8? Here is a very long post to pump you up.

FreeBSD - What's cooking for FreeBSD 8? [ivoras.sharanet.org]

Dizzy? Pull yourself together. From Wikipedia [en.wikipedia.org]:

As of 2009, FreeBSD 8.0 is the "bleeding edge" development version, called -CURRENT in FreeBSD development terminology. It will feature superpages [en.wikipedia.org], Xen [en.wikipedia.org] DomU support, network stack virtualization, stack-smashing protection [en.wikipedia.org], TTY layer rewrite, much improved ZFS support and, new USB stack, and rewritten NFS client/server introducing NFSv4. Inclusion of improved device mmap() extensions will allow the technical implementation of a 64-bit Nvidia display driver for the amd64 platform. FreeBSD 8.0 is planned to be released in the 3rd quarter of 2009.

Yahoo! has been using it for years. I have been using it for years. Why FreeBSD? IBM tells you why in 2005.
Why FreeBSD - A quick tour of the BSD alternative [www.ibm.com]

FreeBSD tells you why.
About FreeBSD's Internetworking [www.freebsd.org]

FreeBSD made you a slideshow about 7.0 explaining why.
Introducing FreeBSD 7.0 [people.freebsd.org]

Right now, you might be feeling anxious. You've been using some linux distro with a name you can't even pronounce or spell properly and a confusing package management system. You thought it was the best. Better than Windows right? You don't know anymore. It doesn't make sense. You're not sure if it ever did make sense. The room starts spinning. You realize this must have been a joke. A Penguin? Some guy named Linus? Ubuntu? Why didn't you see the clues? Is this the real life?

Why are you using linux?