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FreeBSD 4.9-RC4 (i386) Available For Pounding

Posted by timothy on from the final-seems-an-odd-word dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Murray Stokely has announced the availability of RC4 - the final Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.9. He says that RC4 includes SATA, DRM and other bugfixes; he is requesting everyone for help with testing. He says that if all goes well, they will be able to release Monday."

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  1. better than 4.8 by endx7 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I can tell already 4.9 is gonna be better than 4.8 was. I had a machine running 4.8 that would panic and reboot under heavy load (problem was apparently in the driver for the ethernet card). Since I really had nothing to lose, I decided to go up to the release canidate of whatever version was available.

    This was friday morning, and the newest version of stable was RC3. I downloaded it, ...and it didn't work (and checksum mismatch, which might explain it just -slightly-).

    I looked back at the server, and RC4 had been put on the server while I was downloading RC3. Okay! Download, and before too much time passed, 4.9-RC4 was running.

    I pushed and pulled some large files off and on it (100 mbit, which in 4.8 it wasn't lasting longer than a few minutes on that card), and this time it stayed up (and it's still up).