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FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 Released

Posted by michael on from the now-ever-so-slightly-fewer-bugs dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engg. Team's Scott Long has announced the second release candidate of FreeBSD 5.2.1. The release is now available for downloading. Please test and provide feedback. Changes since the RC1 include more bug fixes for ATA, working kernel modules on the install floppies, and numerous security fixes to the src and XFree86 packages. Note that the sparc64 XFree86-4-Server package in this set does not have the latest updates, Scott says that this will be fixed in the final release."

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  1. The Sky is Falling! by eviltypeguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Sky is Falling, and our society's impending breakdown is near.

    A slashdot contributor actually linked to the FTP mirror list instead of directly to ISOs or an FTP Site!

    Run for your lives!

    1. Re:The Sky is Falling! by __past__ · · Score: 4, Funny

      They still have a chance to announce the final 5.2.1 release before releng@ does.

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      Programming can be fun again. Film at 11.
  2. Engg? by cperciva · · Score: 2, Funny

    How does "Engineering" get abbreviated to "Engg."? Where does the second "g" come from?

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    Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
  3. Re:Thoughts on the release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmm, did RedHat's death cause so much harm
    to people's minds??

    It certainly did nothing to mine: I switched
    to FreeBSD 5.1 the very next day after, and
    here's what happened:

    [root@mymach]# uptime
    3:29?? up 80 days, 23:31, 26 users, load averages: 0.15, 0.06, 0.02
    [root@mymach]#

  4. Here's my favorite version of the Linux kernel: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    $ /usr/compat/linux/bin/bash

    $ uname -a
    Linux myhost 2.4.2 FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #29: Sat Feb 14 02:40:58 EST 2004 i686 unknown