FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 Released

Posted by michael on Thursday December 11, 2003 @01:30AM 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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Re:What does FreeBSD have over Linux? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-12 03:45 · 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?