FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

[Jorn Argelo]

>So the question is, has any person, anywhere, at any
>time, successfully installed 5.2.1-RELEASE on any
>hardware whatsoever ?  Or is it just a practical joke
>release ?
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I'm not going to tell you again that the installation media is bad, 
because everybody else said that already.

But something that I do wish to say is that I am wondering why it is 
always the fault of the software, and not the person itself. I mean, 
think about it, do you truely think a project like FreeBSD would release 
software that is _that_ unstable? Thousands, ten thousands of people are 
using it daily for their server or workstation needs. Aren't you going 
to think then that it might be a problem which lies with you and not the 
software?

Why don't we take our friend Bill's software for example? Starting from 
Windows NT4, it has been a good operating system for both servers and 
workstations. You can't say it's bad, because it's probably being 
maintained by a bad system adminstrator then. It's the programs running 
on Windows that can make it run bad (spyware, malware, viruses, bad 
drivers, name it up). People always bash Microsoft for security 
exploits, but FreeBSD and Linux people have to patch their machines as 
well because of security exploits. Why don't they ever give a kick when 
they have to patch their *nix machine, and they all blame, curse, troll 
and flame on Microsoft and Windows, but we forget that Windows 
developers are humans as well. Anyway, this is going too much offtopic.

Pardon my obvious frustration, but I am quite tired of people bashing 
and trolling on software like this before they even think about their 
problem.