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FreeBSD 5.0-RC2 Now Available

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-download dept.

An anonymous reader writes "FreeBSD 5.0-RC2 has been uploaded to ftp-master and is showing up on most of the primary mirrors. ia32, ia64, pc98, and alpha images are available now; sparc64 will be pushed out once it becomes available. The plan going forward is to cut an RC3 in early January, followed by 5.0-RELEASE a week later."

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  1. Not a dupe by Stinson · · Score: 2, Informative

    Its not a dupe. Compare the 2 articles. The earlier one this morning said that the FreeBSD developers said its compiled and should be available shortly and put up the release schedule, where as this new said its definitly available now, and even on mirrors, which normally take a while to get up to date. If anything, at the farthest, this is more like a partial dupe, but figuring CmdrTaco posted it, he most likely reads his news everymorning and noticed the previous one.

  2. Re:pthreads using rfork? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    No, threads based on fork/rfork/clone is a horrible idea. threads will be based upon KSEs, which will give solaris level threading performance, and much less overhead. This basically splits the process into an equal number of threads as you have processors, scheduling is done by the kernel of those threads, and user-level threading is done within each of those. This means you can fully utilize all the CPUs in your machine with only that number of kernel schedule entries, the overhead of managing thousands of threads is pushed off to that applicaton (where it should be). In terms of scalability, this is where it is at. Its simply a briliant idea. I'm surprised it took OpenSource this long to get it.

  3. Re:CVS Tree created by pfish · · Score: 2, Informative

    Cute...it didn't post in HTML as i selected.

    If you'd like to use cvsup to get to this release, change your current

    *default release=cvs tag=
    to:
    *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5


    Note: You may have to run this 2 times - the first time it will DELETE the contains of your existing src dir, the second time it will inflate it.

  4. Re:pthreads using rfork? by muyThaiBxr · · Score: 2, Informative

    FreeBSD has linux threads which do something similar.... FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE (as far as I know) will also have it's own form of kernel threading called KSE's... These are much better than the rfork threads.