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FreeBSD 5.2 RC2 Now Available

Posted by timothy on from the merry-eve dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Scott Long announces the availability of FreeBSD 5.2 RC2 which fixes a number of bugs, specifically the one in which users experienced system panics during install and dynamic library problems in the 'fixit' environment. Scott is asking everyone to test this release over the holidays. You can download it from one of your preferred mirror sites." Update: 12/24 23:01 GMT by T : Dan writes with more info: "Scott Long has also laid out a roadmap for future FreeBSD 5.3 releases now that FreeBSD 5.2-RC2 is getting close to release quality."

7 of 301 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I thought you were dead! nt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Hey who is the OSDN hottie in red? question mark question mark question mark

  2. Re:I thought you were dead! nt by Rhubarb+Crumble · · Score: 5, Funny
    Hey who is the OSDN hottie in red?

    An HP ProLiant DL140 server, apparently.

    Oh wait, you've probably got a different ad...

  3. Try it today! by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 2, Funny
    I want everybody in the community to know that 5.2 RC2 is the best version of FreeBSD yet, and is even the best OS out there. I have been using 5.2 RC2 for over three years over here, currently reflected in its uptime, because it has not crashed at all over the entire three years.

    Anybody who hasn't tried 5.2 RC2 yet is really in for a treat...

  4. Experienced user panic during install? by Chemisor · · Score: 3, Funny

    > bugs, specifically the one in which users
    > experienced system panics during install

    I wonder how they expect anyone to actually use an operating system whose installation procedure makes experienced users panic... Oh, yeah; I forgot. It's open source.

  5. test the release over the holidays ? by Jenty · · Score: 2, Funny

    that's the best part IMGO: "Scott is asking everyone to test this release over the holidays". What a scary geeks you are !

  6. OK, I'll bite by argoff · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's dying!

    OK, It's so much that it's dying .... it's that all these companies like SCO are able to keep living by forking off endless proprietaty code for themselves because the FreeBSD license allows it. Do a "strings" command on any SCO binary and you'd be amazed how much similar stuff they have to the FreeBSD equivalents. (what's even more amazing is that for all that copying you'd think they'd be able to make SCO stable)

  7. Netcraft confirms: *BSD trolls are dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    With *BSD proving to be especially resilient, *BSD trolls are facing the reality that *BSD is, indeed, not dying after all. The particularly outspoken troll known only as "Anonymous Coward" recently said, "*BSD trolls will never die, like *BSD soon will! We will never give up! Face the death of *BSD and switch to a different OS and section!" but the numbers tell a different tale. In fact, in the month of December alone, *BSD trolling is down by 14%, continuing a pattern from earlier months. *BSD may not be dying after all, but it seems to be only a matter of time before the *BSD trolls' days of trolling the BSD section are over.

    Fact: *BSD trolls are dying.