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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. BSD is rice!!! :-D by devphaeton · · Score: -1, Troll

    I look forward to going home and making world up to beta7 from beta6...

    I aspire to be an exhalted Gentoo Rice Boi, but due to my lack of l33tn3zz, i must remain a downtrodden and bitter fan of FreeBSD.

    boo hoo.

    (disclaimer: i'm mostly joking, i run Debian and FreeBSD and love them both, and i don't think i'll need my Anti-Gentoo Flamesuit here in the BSD section.)

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    do() || do_not(); // try();
  2. Re:Keep in mind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    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).

    Joseph, FreeBSD user since the 2.2.8 days.