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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. Making choices... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Currently run 5.1 on all my machines, but 4.x series was marvelous as well.
    With DragonflyBSD rolling its release sometime around 5-STABLE branch I think people will have a hard time making a choice of what to run.
    5-STABLE branch releases or DragonflyBSD, it will be interesting times ahead.
    I will probably run FreeBSD on most my servers and put DragonflyBSD on my laptop, as 4.x series worked better on crappy hardware; I needed more advanced features that 5.x offered that DragonflyBSD will too.

  2. Re:better than 4.8 by sirket · · Score: 2, Interesting

    (problem was apparently in the driver for the ethernet card)

    What ethernet card was this? I have seen issues with RealTek and Via Rhine ethernet chipsets, mostly because they are awful chipsets. (Not trying to make excuses for FreeBSD. Though I have never seen problems with an ethernet card under FreeBSD except under -CURRENT).

    I did get some panics when running -CURRENT with a Via Rhine on a high throughput firewall, but when I returned to 4.8, everything was fine. Serves me right for running -CURRENT on a production box.

    -sirket

  3. Re:better than 4.8 by endx7 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What ethernet card was this? I have seen issues with RealTek and Via Rhine ethernet chipsets, mostly because they are awful chipsets. (Not trying to make excuses for FreeBSD. Though I have never seen problems with an ethernet card under FreeBSD except under -CURRENT).

    I don't remember what card exactly it was, but it used the xl driver. I had also tried an SMC? that used the dc driver, and it seemed bpf breaking then (but I'm not expert at debugging the kernel). But it appears to be fixed in 4.9, so I'm happy.

  4. Works For Me by devphaeton · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've been running it since Saturday, and so far so good. I had to download and install the ports separately because they weren't on the mirror yet, but that's no biggie.

    Everything seems to go well, the usual fit-n-finish is superb, no complaints or warnings from any packages or utilities. Just what you'd expect from the FreeBSD team ;)

    Of course, i have `boring' hardware- nothing special:

    Athlon 1533Mhz
    512M Kingston
    30G WD IDE
    nvidia TNT1 (eek!)
    SbLive! (haven't built a kernel for support yet)
    Netgear FA312TX (natsemi chipset)
    IBM CDRW (haven't configged yet)

    But hey.... I just may make FreeBSD my primary desktop OS instead of Debian :-/

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