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FreeBSD 5.3-BETA4 Available

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-rock dept.

BrunoC writes "Once again, the FreeBSD Project presents yet another beta release of FreeBSD 5.3. FreeBSD 5.3 BETA 4 features major bugfixes for ATA, 4BSD is now the default scheduler and overall stability has greatly improved. BETA 5 should hit the streets next week and should be the last BETA and a Release Candidate is scheduled too. 5.3 should be around by October 3rd. ISO images are available for those who want to help the testing process." (Use a mirror.)

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  1. Scheduler? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    4BSD is now the default scheduler

    How bizarre. They only just switched the default scheduler from 4BSD to ULE. Now they've swapped it back. Anyone know why?

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    1. Re:Scheduler? by drmerope · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The author of ULE has been out of touch now for sometime. ULE had known issues at the time it was made default in -current, but it was hoped that visibility would generate the reports necessary to stablize it. Unfortunately, Jeff hasn't seemed to have the time to fix or even examine the issues uncovered.

      The recent preemption changes drove ULE from being merely suboptimal (inefficient) in some situations to being unstable.

  2. Switching by rawg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I switched over to FreeBSD a while ago because Debian was so out of date. I fell in love with FreeBSD because it's so easy to maintain. And Ports are awesome! I can run a stable OS with the most up-to-date (stable) software. Before I had to run unstable Debian to get the latest PHP/Postgres to install, unless I compile it myself.

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  3. I've been happy with Beta3 by Moloch666 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I switched over my 5.2.1 personal server to 5.3-Beta3. Mostly for the NDIS driver so I can get my atheros wireless card to work in turbo mode. It runs great. Their ath drivers are much more mature than linux's madwifi they still can't do turbo, all though the man file said otherwise. I'm guessing it's an issue with my card(DWL-G520). I now have my 2 linux computers and this one using windows drivers using ndis wrappers. My wireless speeds are now up to acceptable.

    I suppose I'll give this one ago, although by the time I get around to it, I'll probably be cvs up'ing beta5.

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  4. Re:I read this recently, how accurate is it? by ValiantSoul · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Enabling power management in the kernel would help. You are most likely comparingn linux w/power management vs FreeBSD w/o