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FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 Almost Ready

Posted by timothy on from the open-ended dept.

essdodson writes "Scott Long of the FreeBSD release engineering team has posted that FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 has been compiled and should be available shortly. Check it out and help make this the best FreeBSD release so far. The updated release schedule lists Jan 17, 2003 as the anticipated release date."

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  1. Jan 17 is the anticipated release date of 5.0 by atrus · · Score: 4, Informative

    The story body isn't worded very clearly... Jan 17th is the anticipated release date of 5.0, not 5.0RC2

  2. Just in time for Christmas!! by SuperDuG · · Score: 2, Informative
    Wait a minute, isn't FreeBSD some satan worshiping distro??

    But in all seriousness I'm going to say it again and again, if you get a chance to check it out, installing FreeBSD is definantelly worth a try. It's enough like linux where the linux user can feel comfortable, but different in many ways (try it out, you'll figure out what the differences are).

    I would be the happiest man alive if debian would use the FreeBSD kernel.

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    1. Re:Just in time for Christmas!! by jon787 · · Score: 4, Informative

      I would be the happiest man alive if debian would use the FreeBSD kernel.

      They're working on it

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  3. OS X by snitty · · Score: 2, Informative

    And the new code should be integrated into OS X sometime in late 2003!

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    1. Re:OS X by FireBook · · Score: 2, Informative

      actually thats dead right, os XI (yes, os eleven) is gonna be built on the bsd 5 system :o) just it may not make it in 2003, seeing as theres another 7 .1 pointreleases apple can use to fleece their userbase

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  4. cylinder limit by guile*fr · · Score: 3, Informative

    wonder if they worked out the 1024 cylinder limit.
    it's a big show stopper for me

    1. Re:cylinder limit by shamilton · · Score: 3, Informative

      man boot0cfg

      -o options
      A comma-separated string of any of the following options may be
      specified (with ``no'' prepended as necessary):

      packet Use the disk packet (BIOS Int 0x13 extensions) interface,
      as as opposed to the legacy (CHS) interface, when doing
      disk I/O. This allows booting above cylinder 1023, but
      requires specific BIOS support. The default is
      `nopacket'.

      sh

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    2. Re:cylinder limit by MobyTurbo · · Score: 3, Informative
      Upgrading within 4.x has been pretty smooth

      4.x to 5.0 may not be however. This from the 5.0-DP2 release notes "Warning: Binary upgrades to FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 from FreeBSD 4-STABLE are not supported at this time. This may change by the time 5.0 is released."

      Yes, but the best way to upgrade if the computer is on the internet and is already running FreeBSD is to CVSup /usr/src, which, with changes documented in the early adopter's guide, and in /usr/src/UPDATE after the CVSup, should work fine. (Disclaimer, I haven't tried this myself - but since it's not the "binary upgrade" that is warned against it should work, as long as you *read* the UPDATE file and follow it step by step.)
  5. Re:say what? by softweyr · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uh, duh, the announcement didn't say it was almost ready, it said it was done. The available shortly part means it was being copied to the ftp mirrors as the post went out. You're really dense about online software, aren't you?

  6. Re:The real story by jonbelson · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to Bruce Mah, the reason for not creating the stable branch until at least 5.1 is to encourage people to work on fixing up the 5.x series. If a 5 STABLE branch was created first, people would more likely keep working on adding new features to HEAD.

    --Jon

  7. Re:FreeBSD...GEEBSD.... by MobyTurbo · · Score: 3, Informative
    Anything that does not work on my laptop truly sucks for me
    One of the things 5.0 is supposed to bring is better laptop support.
  8. FreeBSD has interesting History by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I converted to FreeBSD 3 from RedHat 5 and have not looked back since. It just makes more sense structurally and is more solid than anything I have found on i386. BSD argueably has the most solid TCP/IP stack out there. A few examples:

    - F5 BigIP's converted from BSDi to a modified FreeBSD kernel in v4 (microsoft uses these for Windows update)

    - Also I had to laugh when I found out F5 inserted the BSD TCP/IP stack in one of their "Red Hat" cache appliances (EdgeFX) for performance resons. :)

    - The evil empire also uses FreeBSD for hotmail. You didn't think Winders could hang?

    - Nokia/Checkpoint FW1 and IDS sensors run BSD kernels

    - Can you folks think of anymore on the resume?
    The interesting history is that Bill Joy (went on to help form SUN) was behind the original BSD movement. I heard it used to be called Bills' Software Distro... Wasn't Berkley behind tcp/ip? You folks probably know more of the history than me.

    Anyways, I had a crash and burn attempt at 5.0RC2 last night so I'll probably wait for 1/17/03 and get a new box for 5.0 Release.

    FYI - looks like RC2 is posted.

  9. Re:Difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? by Clover_Kicker · · Score: 3, Informative
    What the diff?

    FreeBSD installs tcsh as /bin/csh . The others don't.

    NetBSD runs on a Cobalt Qube2. The others don't.

    OpenBSD can encrypt swap. The others don't.