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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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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.