Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

FreeBSD Freezes Code For 4.7 Release

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 5, 2002 @05:53AM from the pre-halloween dept.

SirGeek writes: "According to the Daemon News and the FreeBSD site a code freeze has taken place in preparations for the impending 4.7 release on October 1st."

1 of 39 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Token rings galore by dmadole · 2002-09-06 05:32 · Score: 2, Interesting

Some Olicom token ring cards are well supported under FreeBSD. The support contains some binary code from Olicom, so it is not compiled in by default and resides in the contrib directory. But it's easy to enable and has been solid for me.

I'm not much of a token ring fan, but my printer (IBM Network Printer 17) came with a token ring card. Instead of buying an ethernet server for $150 (I only paid $300 for the printer) I got five Olicom PCI cards ($15 for all) and a twisted-pair token ring hub ($10) on eBay. Dropped one card into my server and set up routing. Handles lpr just great.