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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. Who need Release-Candidates? by kwench · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just get 4-LATEST or 5-CURRENT...

  2. Just got this last night by The+Irish+Jew · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Last night I was grabbing some 5.1 isos and happened to see 5.2 had just been updated to RC1 so I went ahead and grabbed them. As always another quality release from the FreeBSD team.

  3. Dead Project release 5.2 RC1 by thefatz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Going strong, in a mature way! You know, I stay impressed with the quality of FreeBSD. As a longtime UNIX user and Linux user, FreeBSD has the professional "sheen" that I would expect from Solaris or AIX. While I enjoyed using Linux, it was the small things in FreeBSD that made me happy. Complete man pages, vs. halfway done man pages and broken info pages, or ports, or how there was a new kernel of the week (eerie similar to Microsoft). I like the fact that FreeBSD was rather set it up, update it, build your software, and forget about it. It's hard to make the 4.x series die, and the 5.x series is looking close to or already is enterprise ready. Good Luck, God Bless, and keep up the good work FreeBSD Team.

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    1. Re:Dead Project release 5.2 RC1 by archen · · Score: 2, Interesting

      they say 5.3 will be the first stable release on the 5.x line.

      Depending on your definition of "stable". I didn't use 5.0 much so I can't say anything there, but I've already found 5.1 at least as stable as Linux, or at times more stable considering some problems I've had on Linux. I won't say that 5x doesn't have issues, but I haven't encountered any really.

      If my inital tests of 5.2 pan out (which I have no doubt they will) then I will finally begin the migration from Redhat 7.3 to FreeBSD. If I have to reboot every 10 months or so (unlikely) I'll live. It's certainly better than the random 'inode pointers busy self destruct in 5 seconds' messeges I get on Linux every couple weeks.

    2. Re:Dead Project release 5.2 RC1 by Billly+Gates · · Score: 2, Interesting
      I have had nothing but problems with the 5.x series.

      I use the ports to build everything and not pkg_add. The ports tree is quite broken in alot of area's.

      No kernel panics I admit but it was almost as bad as Gentoo.

      I switched back to 4.9 and I noticed the ports work and they are also more up to date.

      Also I tried using just pkg_add under 5.1 and some of the apps were broken.

      Still would not trust it yet.

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