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FreeBSD 5.2.1 RC Ready For Getting

Posted by Hemos on from the get-more-of-it dept.

MobyTurbo writes "FreeBSD 5.2.1 RC is now available, and now can be downloaded from the FreeBSD site and mirrors, or if you are currently running FreeBSD 5.2 (or for that matter some earlier versions) you can simply cvsup to it. The upcoming 5.2.1 release should fix a number of outstanding bugs in the 5.2 release, and this is a chance to make sure those bugs get fixed!"

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  1. Re:Install Howto ($core:-5, Clueless) by rob_macgregor · · Score: 3, Informative

    FreeBSD certainly does support CD writing and has for some time. Maybe you last used it before CD burners were produced :-P

    Even your favourite K3b is available.

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  2. A Brief synopsis by the+real+darkskye · · Score: 5, Informative

    of what has been reported broken in 5.2 and MFC'd to 5.2.1 can be found here

    I just hope I can use my USB mouse with out needing a PS/2 mouse plugged in and my sound works again!

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  3. Freesbie by Louis+Guerin · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... is a FreeBSD-based liveCD. You can find it at www.freesbie.org. I downloaded it awhile ago but haven't yet checked it out, must get onto that. So many distros, so little time. L

  4. Re:I was a Linux user considering FreeBSD... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well stereotypes don't just start by themselves.

    Remember though that just like any stereotype what you actually see from a group doesn't necessarily paint the whole picture. For linux OR FreeBSD.

  5. Re:why so far ahead of linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ignoring the fact that the parent post was a joke for a moment, BSD has been around since the 1970s.

    The original Windows (not NT, which is a different OS) was released in 1985 (Windows 1.0), and the last version was released in 2000 (Windows Me).

    Linux and NT are about the same age: Linux 1.0 was released in 1994; Windows NT 3.1, (which was really NT 1.0, but called 3.1 to match the version number of Windows 3.1) was released in 1993.

    Also:

    Windows 2000 = NT 5.0 (really 3.0, since NT started with version 3.x)
    Windows XP = NT 5.1
    Windows 2003 = NT 5.2

  6. Re:5.x production release date? by DES · · Score: 3, Informative

    The 5.x branch is expected to go -STABLE with FreeBSD 5.3, which should be out some time this spring. There is a list of outstanding issues at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/todo.html.

  7. Re:CVS must die by mypalmike · · Score: 2, Informative
    Why must CVS die? One word: Atomic commits.

    OK, that's actually 2 words. But they're important words describing a feature CVS lacks. Basically it means that when I commit a bunch of files, they either all are committed or none of them are. No partial commits that break the build. No chance of getting latest during what happens to be the midst of someone else's multi-file commit.

    See the Subversion site to try it out.

    In the last 10 years, I've worked on projects with RCS, CVS, Sourcesafe, Perforce, and Subversion. Once you get used to atomic commits in Perforce and Subversion, you'll wonder why any source control software is still used that doesn't do it this way.

    -_-_-

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