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FreeBSD Freezes Code For 4.7 Release
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."
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Editors, please look these up - this must be the third or fourth repeated article within the last week.
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im not too sure whats new, but i hope they have improved jail mgmt. As per the release schedule, the 4.7 PreRelease was out as of the first of sept! And as far as i know, the releases will come out 1 per quarter.
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If you would have read the release process document you would have seen the link to the Testing Guide for 4.7 (pre-)release which explains what should be checked carefully in this (pre)-release.
Reading the article doesn't take so long, you probably spend more time in replying to it.
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Cool, FreeBSD 4.7 will hopefully be released on the 1st of October this year :)
The main improvement I want to see on this version is the ability to do a net install on my laptop using a Xircom CEM33 pcmcia ethernet card.
Pity the Xircom project has pretty much closed, it was my last best hope, one of these days I should just go buy a better ethernet card, or maybe a CD-ROM.....lol
Saying your OS is the best because more people use it is like saying MacDonalds make the best food
Yes this is most likely the final release before 5.0 comes out.
:)
The 5.0 current code is planned to be frozen on the 20th of October 2002, with an expected release on the 20th of November 2002.
That will give us plenty of time to go and buy FreeBSD 5.0 and give it to our relatives for christmas
Saying your OS is the best because more people use it is like saying MacDonalds make the best food
5.0 is supposed to be released November 20, according to the FreeBSD site
but note that that is still a -CURRENT tree. 4.8 is the next -STABLE release after 4.7, planned for February 1.
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.
Aren't you the popular one at gift-giving festivals! ;O)
And actually, I remember seeing a release schedule which stated that they wouldn't recommend the general population to use 5.x until 5.2.
I just looked, this was the only reference I could find (note this schedule was done before the decision to push 5.x to 11/2002 instead of 11/2001)
2001-04-20: FreeBSD 4.3 released
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2001-08-20: FreeBSD 4.4 release date
2001-11-11: FreeBSD 5.0 release date [EARLY ACCESS]
2001-12-15: FreeBSD 4.5 release date
2002-03-15: FreeBSD 5.1 release date [GENERAL ACCESS]
2002-04-20: FreeBSD 4.6 release date
2002-07-15: FreeBSD 5.2 release date [BEGIN -STABLE]