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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:come on. by kfg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have some sympathy with your point of view, however, let me offer another nonetheless.

    The software nerd, as opposed to those who view software merely as a means to get their work done, is more inclined to be interested in software "in the rough" than as a finished product. Thus release candidates are of particular interest.

    What's more, since most people are somewhat "embeded" in their favorite enviroment (Windows lock in anyone?) they aren't likely to personally keep track of the development of platforms outside their own, even those that they have some genuine interest in.

    I haven't used FreeBSD, but the posting of stories such as this keeps my interest up in doing so someday in a way that other news venues don't, because I don't see them.

    And I don't really see that posting a few of these in anyway takes away from other Slashdot stories. I don't know that this story was posted instead of some other story as opposed to as well as the other story.

    As with all Slashdot stories I read those that interest me and skip those that don't, just as I ignore the social pages of my local newspaper. I don't write letters to the editor complaining that they exist.

    KFG

  2. Re:come on. by JanneM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, I sort of agree with you in general; we have better sites for software announcements.

    That said, release candidates for really major pieces - like a new Linux kernel or this FreeBSD update - deserve a place on /. as much or more than the actual releases. This is _really_ a case of the widest possible testing being beneficial for everybody, and if /. can help to corral more tester it can only be good.

    So yes, agree in general, but not in this particular case.

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  3. Re:come on. by R.Caley · · Score: 2, Insightful
    People wanting bugfixes will absorp them via ports/pkg_add anyway,

    Er, it's not an update to a port, it's a call for testers for a new release of the entire OS. Seems pretty significant `news for nerds' to me.

    Certainly more interesting than `Intel is releasing yet another ugly processor no one needs care about'.

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  4. Re:I was a Linux user considering FreeBSD... by yer_momma · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes but.. couldn't a lot of Windows users considering Linux also say the same thing about Linux people?

    Linux users just like to bash Windows (the OS), not its users (people). BSD fans tend to act like condescending assholes towards Linux users (people). See, there's the difference.

  5. Not ever fix is in the ports by schnozzy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From the announcement e-mail on the -CURRENT mailing list.

    [...]
    - many improvements and fixes to the ATA driver
    - new kdeadmin3 package to address the 'KUser' problem
    - fixes to several network drivers, IPSec, NFSv4, and NNS.
    - fix for the cd bootloader code to handle USB cdrom drives.
    [...]

    As you see, most of the above fixes do not apply to ports/packages as they are in the base system.