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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. Post BitTorrent in summary for RELEASE! by CaptainPinko · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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?

    --
    Your CPU is not doing anything else, at least do something.
  2. Re:Keep in mind by SillyNickName4me · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > 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?