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FreeBSD 4.10 Released

Posted by timothy on from the move-a-decimal-to-get-a-shotgun dept.

lorand writes "After some delay (initially scheduled to be released on May 5th) the long awaited 4.10 version of FreeBSD was released today. It features a large merge of the USB code from the -CURRENT development branch, some conservative updates to a number of programs in the base system and many bugfixes. The detailed release notes can be found here. Use one of the many mirrors if you need to get the ISOs." feargal adds "There are no sweeping changes from 4.9, mostly a consolidation of security and bug fixes. Looking forward, it is also the first in a new 'Errata Branch' which increases the scope of fixes applied. In the past only critical security fixes were applied to the release branch. The Errata branch will include local DoS fixes and well-tested non-security fixes."

3 of 269 comments (clear)

  1. Bsd is dying :P by MrRuslan · · Score: 5, Informative

    But the 4.X branch just won't die. Can't wait till 5.x gets ironed out.On a serious note it is good that they maintain the 4.x, It is good stuff.

  2. I like it by molnarcs · · Score: 5, Informative
    I like the way they package things - one cd full of goodies (KDE 3.2.2, GNOME 2.6) and one rescue (live) cd for all releases (since 4.8 at least).

    BTW - FreeBSD seems to be included on distrowatch now (good thing!) and there is even a nice review there of the 5.x branch. There are even some nice tips included in the review :)

  3. FreeBSD-laptop by n0dez · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wrong!

    This is the most popular FreeBSD-Laptop site. gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/

    This is a great resource if your laptop is old. www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html

    Here you can read an article about FreeBSD on laptops. www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/lapto p/article.html

    If you need more FreeBSD resources, then visit www.n0dez.com/freebsd/

    If you've got a 32-bit PCMCIA card on your laptop, use FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. The 5.x branch supports 32-bit PCMCIA cards. In fact, I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE on an old laptop without a hitch.