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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)

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  1. Re:Close to FreeBSD 5.3 by the+real+darkskye · · Score: 5, Informative

    FreeBSD 5.3 supports Project Evil, ala NDIS support.
    It can take binary windows drivers for a majority of networking hardware and use them to run the device.

    Information on Project Evil can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ndis&apro pos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-current&format =html

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  2. Re:Close to FreeBSD 5.3 by JQuick · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Newer supported devices" is uselessly vague, as you are aware. Adding the words "wireless one" is more detailed, but not as you state, "more precise".

    Wireless could still mean almost anything. IRDA, 802.11*, bluetooth, heck you might be talking about anything from a mouse or a keyboard to an interface to an amateur packet radio band (via short wave). As a result, though I would like to provide an answer, I cannot. I can only make it easier for you to find it on your own.

    FreeBSD supports a wide range of devices. Note however that FreeBSD strive for quality over quantity, and that your particular hardware may not be well supported yet, if supported at all. You should look at the hardware support page for the release you want to run. (version and host architecture)

    For FreeeBSD 5.x on intel that page is:

    http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/5-STABLE/hardwar e/ i386/index.html

    It list all the hardware specific release notes for the i386 architecture, including motherboard, processors, and devices.

    The device page covering everything from mice to raid controllers is:
    http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/5-STABLE/hard ware/ i386/support.html

    Does it support strange and obscure devices?
    Yes.
    Does it support your strange and obscure device?
    I don't know, take a look and see. Good luck, I hope you give it a try. It's a very nice environment.