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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.