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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. Re:The Sky is Falling! by Homology · · Score: 5, Informative
    A slashdot contributor actually linked to the FTP mirror list instead of directly to ISOs or an FTP Site!

    That is because the average *BSD user is mature and thoughtful ;-)

  2. Re: automatic hardware recognition? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The BSD kernels can and do automatically set up devices that are compiled into them. In my expreience though, OpenBSD has the greatest built-in support, including things like sound cards. If you recompile the FreeBSD kernel with 'device pcm' it will do so as well. Not that it's hard to 'kldload snd_pcm' either, but that goes agains what you really want here...

  3. Re:Status of NAT, pf, &c? by elbuddha · · Score: 5, Informative



    natd is userland, but You do have to re-compile the kernel to get divert sockets.

    pf is not the default filter, but it is in the ports tree and only a pkg_add or make install away.

  4. 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]#