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FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 Released; 5.3-RELEASE Soon

Posted by timothy on from the film-at-11-back-to-you-in-new-york dept.

hugo_pt writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7. This is the seventh and final BETA of the 5.3 release cycle. Fixes and enhancements made since BETA6: fix timekeeping on sparc64 and alpha that would result in the day of the week being stored incorrectly in NVRAM; add support to the fxp driver for the ICH6 chipset; fix the panic on detach problem with USB hubs; import BIND 9.3.0, this completely replaces the old BIND 8.x nameserver in the base system; fix panic when allocating swap on a busy system; fix loader crash when using the 'lsdev' command.... You can read the release announcement, and download the beta ISO." (ISO 1, ISO 2)

2 of 76 comments (clear)

  1. This a joke, right? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    From the announce message:

    - There are known data corruption issues with gvinum. Fixes are being tested now.

    Excuse me? That bug has been there since BETA1 and still not fixed? The funniest thing is that this bug is the fault of arrogant extraordinaire Poul-Henning Kamp, yet nobody dares to flame him for that.

    Smorgreff

  2. Re:Keep in mind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What Brett Glass does is not advocacy.

    Of course it is. He has been writing articles about FreeBSD for years. What did he get in return? A permban on the lists. Just because, like Dyson, he knows about the dangers of the GNU GPL. Except that Dyson was never punished for expressing his opinion on that matter.

    And what you people are doing for DFly is not advocacy either. It annoys people and sends them somewhere else.

    Au contraire, I want arrogant assholes (Furlong Smoorgroff, Bosko Milekic and Tom Rhodes) out of the DF mailing lists. And it would help if they refrain from posting flaming crap on the FreeBSD lists every time they have a change. Are you listening Smoorgroff?

    Nobody likes whiny paranoid high-pitched idiots, and it's high time you realised it.

    And nobody likes arrogant assholes either.