FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 Released

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."

Comments

Sparc (Sunblade)

[BrookHarty]

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.

Anyone try the release on a sunblade? Been using Gentoo, its sparc64 support has pretty solid. Just wondering...

Re:Sparc (Sunblade)

[essdodson]

I wasn't able to boot my SunFire V120 with a 5.2 release disc. Gentoo was the only thing that seemed to offer full support for such hardware. I've been fairly impressed with gentoo since I started this task.

Status of NAT, pf, &c?

[Anonymous Coward]

What's the status of NAT? Do we still have to re-compile the kernel to get it?

What's the status of pf? Is it the default filter?

Opinions on automatic hardware recognition?

[jbn-o]

I'm curious about FreeBSD (and the other BSDs too), but it has been a while since I've had the time to install and administrate a BSD-based system of my own (OpenBSD 3.0, which was a fine system).

One of the things I just don't have much interest in doing is figuring out which drivers I need and setting them up. Are BSD systems these days good at automatically picking the appropriate drivers?

Thanks.

5.2.1 is much needed

[puzzled]

I do an ls in my home directory and everything is fine. I do an 'ls -l' and I see stuff I deleted a long, long time ago. Other than this very disqueting discovery earlier today 5.2 has been sweet, solid, & flexible - sort of like dating an aerobics instructor. Maybe my troubles stem from a binary upgrade from 4.9 on this laptop, but somehow I don't think so ...

I think I'll play with some of my newly functional USB devices and try to ignore the filesystem stuff ...