FreeBSD 7.0 Beta2 is here!

Posted on November 4th, 2007 by Yousef Ourabi

Fresh on the heels of beta1, the FreeBSD team has released Beta2 of their upcoming 7.0 release scheduled for this December.
If you are already running FreeBSD 7 Beta1, the proper way to upgrade to beta2 is by checking out the RELENG_7 tag using a tool like CVSUP.
Announcement: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/037966.html
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C++ in the Freebsd kernel?

Posted on November 4th, 2007 by Yousef Ourabi

There is a really interesting thread on the FreeBSD-Arch mailing list about supporting a subset of C++ in the kernel. Poul-Henning Kamp (PHK), a well known FreeBSD developer voiced objections early on in favor of an augmented C like language called K (link to FreeBSD wiki).
Poul-Henning Kamp’s main concerns revolved around his opinion [...]

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