Yeay! FreeBSD 5.3 is STABLE!
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE Announcement
My dear friends, (okay la... my one and only audience, mon2)
I am proud to announce that the reported, highly unstable but bleeding edge operating system that I am using on my laptop, workstation and many a server, FreeBSD 5.X, is now stable. This means, that I have a relatively kick ass UNIX-like operating system, that is NOT LINUX! but still in the same vein of free software and open source, and has been publicly announced to be OKAY! for production type servers.
Goodness, I tell you, leaving behind Win-blows is as easy as tossing away bad food inside the refrigerator. Sure you crave that week old moldy cheesecake, but it's BAD! Now you can try that delicious, FREE, and yummy new cheesecake, that NEVER goes bad.
But before i digress into food, let me focus back here to the topic. I am so glad that this release is now stable, cause I've got tons of stuff i wanna do. Funny thing is, it doesn't matter if it's running 5.x or even 4.x, which was, as of 3 days ago, the official stable version of FreeBSD. Saja jer kot nak bleeding edge sgt. It did cost me some sleepless nite's and a lot of RTFM'ing.. But it's well worth it. Compared to my earlier days as Joe User on a standard microsoft Windoze, where I hardly knew about how a friggin computer works, I now know oodles more, and have a better grasp of this interesting technology we call PC's.
I have a plan... well at least I have a dream la... I want to end my professional career trying to push things of Free Software and Open Source software nature and teach young children of such technology. Young minds are always inquisitive. I'm hoping that some of them catch on to the mysterious computers that gives them the ability to play games, and want to know how it works, and how they can make it work better. Or even design and build another system that can rival these systems. I want to give these children a chance to grow without the oppression of proprietary softwares, and paid licenses, at the same time providing tools and knowledge for them to learn something new. Just give them a chance to create something totally new.
Malaysia nak maju boleh. My optimistic belief in the younger generation of my country is that they can be on par with any other race/creed/nation/culture as long as we do not suppress their intake of knowledge, or try to muddle/dilute/contaminate it with so called "rules and regulations". Knowledge is key. Educators are important. Controlling the flow of education for the so called betterment of the country does not cut it. The only control anybody should have over education is, to always have it available. Jangan nak memesong anak2 muda kita with political/cultural/socio-economical brain washing. The more we try to introduce these elements, the higher the probability that the young ones will divert that energy into something not productive or even damaging.
Anyways.. that's my dream.. I wanna talk more about it, but i wanna cut it short because I think I'm starting to meracau/melalut, (to prattle and babble with no end in sight)
anyways... please keep on reading my one and only dearest reader.
CiAO!
My dear friends, (okay la... my one and only audience, mon2)
I am proud to announce that the reported, highly unstable but bleeding edge operating system that I am using on my laptop, workstation and many a server, FreeBSD 5.X, is now stable. This means, that I have a relatively kick ass UNIX-like operating system, that is NOT LINUX! but still in the same vein of free software and open source, and has been publicly announced to be OKAY! for production type servers.
Goodness, I tell you, leaving behind Win-blows is as easy as tossing away bad food inside the refrigerator. Sure you crave that week old moldy cheesecake, but it's BAD! Now you can try that delicious, FREE, and yummy new cheesecake, that NEVER goes bad.
But before i digress into food, let me focus back here to the topic. I am so glad that this release is now stable, cause I've got tons of stuff i wanna do. Funny thing is, it doesn't matter if it's running 5.x or even 4.x, which was, as of 3 days ago, the official stable version of FreeBSD. Saja jer kot nak bleeding edge sgt. It did cost me some sleepless nite's and a lot of RTFM'ing.. But it's well worth it. Compared to my earlier days as Joe User on a standard microsoft Windoze, where I hardly knew about how a friggin computer works, I now know oodles more, and have a better grasp of this interesting technology we call PC's.
I have a plan... well at least I have a dream la... I want to end my professional career trying to push things of Free Software and Open Source software nature and teach young children of such technology. Young minds are always inquisitive. I'm hoping that some of them catch on to the mysterious computers that gives them the ability to play games, and want to know how it works, and how they can make it work better. Or even design and build another system that can rival these systems. I want to give these children a chance to grow without the oppression of proprietary softwares, and paid licenses, at the same time providing tools and knowledge for them to learn something new. Just give them a chance to create something totally new.
Malaysia nak maju boleh. My optimistic belief in the younger generation of my country is that they can be on par with any other race/creed/nation/culture as long as we do not suppress their intake of knowledge, or try to muddle/dilute/contaminate it with so called "rules and regulations". Knowledge is key. Educators are important. Controlling the flow of education for the so called betterment of the country does not cut it. The only control anybody should have over education is, to always have it available. Jangan nak memesong anak2 muda kita with political/cultural/socio-economical brain washing. The more we try to introduce these elements, the higher the probability that the young ones will divert that energy into something not productive or even damaging.
Anyways.. that's my dream.. I wanna talk more about it, but i wanna cut it short because I think I'm starting to meracau/melalut, (to prattle and babble with no end in sight)
anyways... please keep on reading my one and only dearest reader.
CiAO!
posted by Cold at 11/10/2004 03:14:00 AM
1 Comments:
Thank you for acknowledging my faithfulness to your ntahapahapantah blog. ;-)
Erm..let's see. Good for you on the BSD thingy. As usual I dunno what it's all about 'cept that it's your OS and your laptop's running on it. So, whatever makes you happy, makes me happy.
Re: your dream to work with school kids..well I will always second you on that one. After you're done with 'em you can pass 'em over to me. We've got a deal right?
I love you for all the good things that you wanna do and I hope your wishes will come true.
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