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FreeBSD 5.2.1 Released

Posted by michael on from the now-in-technicolor dept.

Kalev writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. This is intended to address several bugs and vulnerabilities discovered in the FreeBSD 5.2 release. See the Release Notes. The release is now available for downloading. If you are currently running FreeBSD 5.x, you can easily cvsup to it or use binary upgrade feature of sysinstall."

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  1. Cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Despite the claim that 5.x isn't yet the
    production branch, we've been running it on
    all our development machines and servers for
    6+ months now. Apparently the FreeBSD
    release engineering team has pretty high
    standards! We're really looking forward to
    FreeBSD 5.3, which has M:N threading and
    the new O(1) scheduler as the default.
    Thread creation in our application is
    blindingly fast *and* runs on many CPUs at
    once. After getting off the poor Linux 2.2
    and 2.4 threading, there was no turning back.

  2. Re:Point point releases? by dohcvtec · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Funny, 4.1.1 was the first version of FreeBSD I used, and I was hooked right from then. Heh, even a "bad" release of FreeBSD is still pretty good compared, oh, say, a bad RedHat release (anyone remember the whole GCC 2.96 fiasco?)

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  3. What is it about by coughski · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Operating Systems that invokes such spite between proponets? IMHO FreeBSD works very well I run 4.8 for my server and have never had a problem never crashes and it does what I need it do. For my Desktop I run SuSe 8.1 and it works very well for most everything I need. I suspect I could use both as a server or a desktop with few problems. I am not a developer or sys admin but I do enjoy tinkering with networks and computers and *nix or *bsd based systems. I just wonder why I see posts like "FreeBSD is dead" from a supposed linux user when clearly both operating systems are actively growing. cough

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  4. Re:Updating from 5.2-RELEASE to 5.2.1-RELEASE. by cperciva · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do you have any idea how many people actually use your service?

    Yes. Around 100 systems per day; in total, somewhere around 2500 systems have been patched.

    Are there any plans to make it an "official" offering of the FreeBSD project?

    Yes. I recently joined the FreeBSD security team, and now that 5.2.1 is out of the way, I'll be pushing to get the integration underway.

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