FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 Released; 5.3-RELEASE Soon

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)

Comments

Post BitTorrent in summary for RELEASE!

[CaptainPinko]

For whomever decides to submit the article for the RELEASE of 5.3 would you please post a torrent? The horde of /. that will want it immediately will get to get it faster since they won't be bogging down the server. People who don't have the a BT client can then have the FTP all to themselves while we share our unsued bandwidth. Plus, that gives those of us on slower connections the ability to turn off the computer and resume the download later WITHOUT the fear of corruption.

Please mod this up so any submitters and story accepters can see this. (I'm not a karma whoe, got quite enough just wanted this to start at +2)

PS: why does it take so long for the FreeBSD people so long to update their schedule?

Re:Post BitTorrent in summary for RELEASE!

[Ezdaloth]

PS: why does it take so long for the FreeBSD people so long to update their schedule?

What's part do you consider 'taking long'? It is afaik updated at every new item they complete, which was about once per week for the last 1.5 months. There s nothing that takes long imo.

Re:Surprised

[josepha48]

Considering how long bind 9 has been in the ports, shouldn't the real question be, wht took them so long?

This is good news as I am tired of having to add bind 9 from the ports to my system.

Re:Keep in mind

[SillyNickName4me]

> If this sorry piece of crap is what is to become the new STABLE I'm jumping ship. OTOH DragonFlyBSD is making progress very fast and the added value that is free of arrogant assholes (Poul-Henning Kamp and Dag-Erling Smograv).

Instead, we get arrogant assholes like you?

(btw, I like what Matt and friends are doing, nothing wrong with them, but the attitude some of their fans seem to have is just sad)

> Joseph, FreeBSD user since the 2.2.8 days.

Bart, FreeBSD user since the 2.0 days... your point being?

Re:Keep in mind

[SillyNickName4me]

> He never left, he was unfairly kicked out

His commit access was removed. THe 'unfairly' part is quite open for debate.

> Why weren't Poul and Erlang kicked as well? Their flame/conversation ratio is as high or higher than Matt's.

Why was what Matt did not accepted while what some others did was? Because there is a huge difference between discussing, flaming and whining on one side, and trying to get your way regardless on the other side. Personally, I think Matt had technically valid concerns, but him going to try them with his own project instead of trying to force them onto a project he was a part of is really a better idea in this case, and it is unfortunate that he didn't come to that conclusion before this happened.

Now maybe you should start putting your time into developing the system you so enthousiastically support instead of making the project look bad with your attempts at discredditing people, you might actually contribute to something, possibly maybe...