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FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 available

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-play-with dept.

Nirbo writes "One week after FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1, FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2, is now available to those wishing to update to the most current FreeBSD on the 5.x branch. It's available from the Main FTP servers, and probably a few more places by this point. BETA-3 is due out September 3rd, but for those who don't want to go a single day without updating, you can find snapshots (and the ISO images) here."

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  1. Definately a beta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just like 5.3 BETA1, BETA2 does not detect my network card automatically, and nothing I do makes any difference (it's always been found by every Linux distribution and all other BSDs, including all previous releases of FreeBSD since 4.7).

    I can only hope that someone fixes this before it's released, because I've long been waiting to try a truely modern version of FreeBSD (with KSE, ULE and now X.org all as defaults).

    I guess it makes little difference in the long run, as I've mostly switched over to the (admittedly too new to realistically be used in a production environment, yet utterly promising) DragonFly BSD and Mac OS X.

    This version has been in the works for over three years now (5.x that is), and I am getting tired of waiting for something that could have been out and stable a year and a half ago were the developers not constantly adding to the feature list while trying to stablise the core architecture of the system.

    DragonFly seems to be doing better in this department (it looks as if thier "light weight kernel threading" subsystem has allowed them to almost completely multi-thread their network stack in roughly a one month period (the project itself being little over one year old) while the FreeBSD folks *still* have not made significant progress doing the same with 5.x (no, even with 5.3 there is more code that cannot function without the big giant lock than there is code that can run happily without it)).

    I can't wait for version 1.1 of DragonFly (due in some six to eight months). It'll be very interesting to see how far they've come at that time when compared to FreeBSD.

    1. Re:Definately a beta by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Interesting

      That is a supported card. It uses the "rl" Realtek driver. See p os=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6-current&format=ht ml> for more information. Searching the bug database I find... no open problem reports on this card! Are you sure you submitted a bug? The last reported bug on this card was in FreeBSD 4.2.

      Is this the SAME card you used sucessfully with FreeBSD 4.x? D-Link is notorius for changing the chipsets in their cards while keeping the model number. Make sure it's really a Realtek 8129/8139 chip. What does dmesg say? You are going to submit a problem report, right? Bitching about the quality of a BETA release without submitting a bug report is silly. Make sure you include the full output of dmesg in your problem report.

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      Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
  2. intel e1000 by preposterity · · Score: 1, Interesting

    let's hope they've fixed those buffer problems with the intel e1000 network cards. i'm tired of having to restrict my card to 100mbps