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FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 Released

Posted by michael on from the try-and-die dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Scott Long has uploaded ISO images and FTP install bits for FreeBSD 5.2-RC1. i386, alpha, and pc98 are available now, amd64 will be available shortly, and sparc64 will be available shortly. Please test this as much as possible so that the FreeBSD Team can release a good 5.2-RELEASE next week. Testing focus for 5.2-RELEASE relates to PCM locking and performance issues, ATA driver improvements, GPT support for sysinstall, ATAng disk corruption issues, SMP and random_harvest panic, vinum data corruption, ACPI kernel module and reported NFS failures."

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  1. and use a mirror! by samhalliday · · Score: 4, Informative
    here

    then go to releases/ARCH/ISO-IMAGES/5.2-RC1

  2. Re:Who need Release-Candidates? by mbadolato · · Score: 3, Informative

    Um, no DON'T get 5-CURRENT. That will likely have changes in it that will bork your system. That's for development and developers, not for end users

  3. Re:Dead Project release 5.2 RC1 by anthonyrcalgary · · Score: 2, Informative

    eh-- they say 5.3 will be the first stable release on the 5.x line. I would tend to take their word for it. Given how utterly rock solid previous FreeBSD-stable releases have proven, their opinions count for a lot.

    Unfortunately my spare box at the moment is garbage, otherwise I'd jump at this. I haven't been able to get anything other than Windows working on it.

    --
    When someone might yell at me, it has to be OpenBSD.
  4. Re:Who need Release-Candidates? by kace · · Score: 2, Informative

    > no DON'T get 5-CURRENT. That will likely have changes in it that will bork your system. That's for development and developers, not for end users

    A slight exagerration. 5.2-RC1 pretty much is CURRENT. As I understand it, release engineering (or somebody) would say "OK, that looks pretty good" and then take a snapshot of CURRENT and dub it 5.2-RC1. Whatever changes may have happened to CURRENT in the last couple of days would be minor, as CURRENT is still preening for 5.2-RELEASE, and major and/or risky new commits are discouraged in this phase.

  5. Re:What does FreeBSD have over Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Red Hat offer 5

    If you repeat a lie long enough do you hope to make it true?

    Red Hat's policy for Red Hat Linux distributions is to provide maintenance for at least 12 months. No 5 year offer....just a 1 year offer.

    well-designed and thoroughly tested distros like Debian and Slackware are totally rock-solid.

    That would be the same 'totally rock-solid' Debian project which was rooted via do_bkr() - a result found in the 'thoroughly tested' Linux kernel?