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FreeBSD 5.0 Available

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-has-a-better-mascot dept.

Vegard writes "Although not yet officially announced, the 5.0 version of FreeBSD is beginning to appear on the FreeBSD FTP site and mirrors world wide." Congrats to the developers. Update: 01/19 17:44 GMT by T : Some more detail -- Dan writes "Scott Long of FreeBSD Release Engineering team has officially announced the availability of FreeBSD 5.0 release. Improvements include second generation UFS filesystem, GEOM, the extensible and flexible storage framework, DEVFS, the device virtual filesystem, Bluetooth, ACPI, CardBus, IEEE 1394 and many more! FreeBSD is also available on 64-bit sparc64 and ia64 platforms."

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  1. Release Notes by Squeezer · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want to see what is new in FreeBSD 5.0 then click to view the release notes.

    http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/relnotes.html

    --
    Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
  2. A few mirros by KAMiKAZOW · · Score: 5, Informative

    The ISOs are not yet on all mirrors, but at least on the following servers:
    ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO -IMAGES-i3 86/5.0/
    ftp://ftp2.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO -IMAGES-i 386/5.0/
    ftp://ftp5.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/IS O-IMAGES-i 386/5.0/
    ftp://ftp6.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-I MAGES-i386 /5.0/
    ftp://ftp14.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMA GES-i38 6/5.0/

    Please look also if the files appeared on the other mirrors.

  3. RC3 was a good experience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Good to hear the final 5.0 release is out. I installed FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 on my Pentium 100MHz with 32MB of RAM and I must say I'm really impressed how well the system performs. I'm a console freak so I try to do everything I need to do using console programs. It's been a really great thing to notice all of the utilities I have needed are also available as console programs.
    I use "slrn" to read the Usenet news, "lynx"/"links" to surf the web, "mutt" to read/send e-mail, "mpg123" to listen to music/internet radiostations. Truly great experience and imagine it works _really_ smoothly and fast on computer which was bought in 1995. I am impressed and a happy FreeBSD user!

  4. Mirror by huhmz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Has been available for a couple of days now, since the mirrors are gonna get hit bad now i figure i could contribute with my unofficial 100Mbit mirror.
    ISOs for i386 here:
    mirror

    Dont forget to check the md5sums, I could be an evil blackhat after all. Enjoy.

  5. Early Adopter's Guide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    And if you want to read some thoughts on whether you should upgrade, then click to view the early adopter's guide.

    http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter .html

    Summary:

    "While FreeBSD 5.0 contains a number of new and exciting features, it may not be suitable for all users at this time. In this document, we presented some background on release engineering, some of the more notable new features of the 5.X series, and some drawbacks to early adoption. We also presented some future plans for the 4-STABLE development branch and some tips on upgrading for early adopters."