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Upcoming FreeBSD 5.1 Release Schedule

Posted by michael on from the planning-ahead dept.

BSDForums writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has posted the schedule for the Release of FreeBSD 5.1 late spring. FreeBSD-5 stable roadmap, announced earlier, outlines the future of FreeBSD-5 stable releases, specifically 5.1 and 5.2."

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  1. The TODO list... by drdink · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Since all 3 of the other comments on this story are offtopic or trolls, I'll throw in something somewhat informational about the upcoming FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE.

    First off, you can see the TODO list here. Stuff on this list is supposed to happen before release time.

    Also, remember that even though this is -RELEASE, it is not -STABLE. FreeBSD 5.1 will not be part of any stable branch. It is still considered the developmental version. Despite that, it is pretty stable. I haven't seen my machine crash in quite a while.

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  2. Where is etc/defaults/make.conf on FreeBSD 5? by Billly+Gates · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Without a master makefile like the the 4.x series I may not upgrade.

    For some reason this file was deleted in version 5. There is a /etc/make.conf but its only a few lines long and is made for perl. No information on gcc or master ftp sites to automatically download ports in this file. I also checked /usr/local/etc with no luck as well

    I searched the web and found no information on this. To me this is essential. I am posting here as a last resort.

    Maybe I did something wrong when I installed it and yes I did chose to install the ports with make, gcc, etc. A change like this had to be documented. /etc/defaults/make.conf is a big deal and no information was found at freebsd's website so I guess its a user error.

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  3. Re:FreeBSD? I heard it was dead ... by Billly+Gates · · Score: 4, Interesting
    No goatse.cx and tubgirl.com surely are alot more offensive and stir alot more people into a flamewar then the ancient bsd is deing.

    Infact to the contrary FreeBSD is growing. A couple of years ago BSD was unknown except by the slashdot crowd. Now after Linux quality is begining to go downhill that its getting more noticed. a 5x fold in applications definetly has strainged rpm and yes even apt-get. Depancy problems are still there.

    I tried FreeBSD in 99 and did not like it. It was weird and archiac and felt old. Today I love it. The ports are way cool and the bsd crowd ignored the Linux flashiness and focused on stability. Today it paid off and many ISP's in the New York area for example are switching to RedHat to FreeBSD because of the quality and out of box security.

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