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FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 Ready For Testing

Posted by timothy on from the asking-for-a-pounding dept.

wumpus188 writes "FreeBSD Release Eng. Team's Murray Stokely announces the availability of first release candidate for FreeBSD 4.9 (RC1). He is requesting everyone to download and test, including helping with finding bugs. As indicated in the Release Engineering Team's testing agenda, more testing should be done with PAE systems to test device compatibility and performance. In particular, active systems with 12 gigs of RAM or more should be thoroughly tested to make sure the various memory allocation algorithms in the kernel still scale properly."

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  1. active systems with 12 gigs of RAM or more by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    > In particular, active systems with 12 gigs of RAM or more should be thoroughly tested

    Yes. Both of them. Sheesh.

  2. Re:4.9 RC1 by phoenix_rizzen · · Score: 3, Informative

    RELENG_4 tracks -stable. This is a moving target and isn't always stable or usable. All new developments in the 4.x branch are made here, and all new releases in the 4.x branch are tagged from here.

    RELENG_4_X tracks 4.X + security fixes. Security fixes and super-major bug fixes are the only things that get added to this branch. No new features will be added here.

    RELENG_4_X_Y_RELEASE will get you 4.X.Y release, the same code as is put on the CDs.