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FreeBSD 5.3 Beta1

Posted by michael on from the early-adopter dept.

Tezkah writes "From the announcement: 'The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1. This is the first BETA of the 5.3 release cycle. It is intended for early adopters and those wishing to help find and/or fix bugs. The 5.3 release cycle will continue with weekly BETA builds while bugs are being fixed and features finalized. The schedule is at www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html . Be sure to check the "Known issues" below, there are known problems still being worked on at this time.' New features include fully threaded and multi-processor safe network stack, X.org instead of XFree86, many ACPI enhancements, GCC updated to 3.4.2, gdb updated to 6.1.1, binutils updated, and much more. Expect 5.3 to be released in full on October 3rd, if everything goes according to schedule!"

3 of 74 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Upgrading from 5.2.1 to 5.3-BETA1 a little bump by archen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    why does the handbook tell you to run mergemaster -p after buildworld? I thought mergemaster was supposed to prepare your system for installworld, and that buildworld was just for compiling the system (not installing it).

    I used to be intimidated by installing freebsd by source, but after having gone through the buildworld process, I find it's really easy to keep freebsd updated. Just cvsup one server and rsync the rest. While I've always done installs and upgrades by CD, I think I'll be doing 5.3 from source. Then again if I'm going to have issues, maybe I'll stick to CD's anyway.

  2. Supported hardware list? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Does anybody know if there's already a supported hardware list available for FreeBSD 5.3? I'd be happy to switch to FreeBSD 5.3 as soon as my Conceptronic 54g Wireless PCI Card is supported :)

  3. Re:Installer by rycamor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oops, I'm sorry. It's "XFree86 -Configure" (notice the capital F).

    Yes, it is unfortunate that all the cool shortcuts in Linux/Unix tend to take years to discover. I really didn't know about it until I had been using FreeBSD for 3 years. Of course, reading the XFree86 manual would have helped ... ;-)