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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!"

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  1. Upgrading from 5.2.1 to 5.3-BETA1 a little bumpy by beholder77 · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you running 5.2.1 and planning on doing a source upgrade, make sure you check the /usr/src/etc/group and /usr/src/etc/master.passwd files and add the new groups and users into your own, otherwise your buildworld will fail about half way through.

    As well, you can't build a new kernel until the userland is upgraded, the "config" program and kernel options have been upgraded.

    Otherwise, the upgrade went well, and it does seem faster than the previous releases.

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  2. Re:Upgrading from 5.2.1 to 5.3-BETA1 a little bump by the+real+darkskye · · Score: 5, Informative
    or you could use mergemaster -p before the buildworld.
    -p Pre-buildworld mode. Compares only files known to be essential to the success of {build|install}world, including /etc/make.conf


    source http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mergemast er&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE +and+Ports&format=html
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  3. Re:Supported hardware list? by Coneasfast · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'd be happy to switch to FreeBSD 5.3 as soon as my Conceptronic 54g Wireless PCI Card is supported :)

    freebsd has support for windows driver via ndis (aka project evil) if native ones are unavailable

    just read up on 'ndis' and 'ndiscvt' man pages

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  4. Re:Upgrading from 5.2.1 to 5.3-BETA1 a little bump by drmerope · · Score: 5, Informative

    You should only need to run mergemaster -p before the installworld stage (despite the description of the option in mergemaster). Doing a buildworld should not require any special users or groups.

    The official procedure (from /usr/src/UPDATING) is:
    make buildworld
    make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
    make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE

    mergemaster -p
    make installworld
    mergemaster