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FreeBSD 5.3 Release Candidate Released

Posted by timothy on from the now-it's-on-probation dept.

Cronopios writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has just announced the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RC1. This will likely be the only Release Candidate before the final release of 5.3, so please give it a try and report/fix any bug you find. You can read the announcement, check the schedule and the 'Known Issues' (problems that are still being worked on at this time)."

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  1. Re:what's the status with usb 2.0 ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    All the good hackers left FreeBSD long time ago, Dyson, Smith, Dillon, you name them. What's left is some second tier code monkeys you can't code their way out of a paper bag. That's why each consecutive BETA/RC of 5.3 introduces new bugs. Their solution is usually some sort of crap workaround (like in the usb keyboard case). USB 2.0 doesn't work properly in FreeBSD. However, you might be interested in HawkinsOS instead, which fixes all the bugs present in FreeBSD 5.3 and is 100% free of people Dag-Erlong Smorgruff.

  2. Re:Scheduler? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, once DragonFlyBSD gets to be production ready, nobody will use FreeBSD anyway, so the whole situation is moot in the long run.

  3. Re:Scheduler? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    The thing I want to know, is how that clown PHK managed to swindle 20 grand for improving up the block device layer when he's already "fixed" it up quite enough:

    You'd really have to read this to believe it:

    -- same mobo and same disks --

    OpenBSD 3.5:

    dd if=/mnt/aa of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=1024
    1024+0 records in
    1024+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes transferred in 18.743 secs (57287584 bytes/sec)

    FreeBSD 5.3rc1:

    # dd if=/mnt/aa of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=1024
    1024+0 records in
    1024+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes transferred in 42.215597 secs (25434719 bytes/sec)


    It has been recently shown by many on the mailing list that disk performance (on all vintages of computers old and new, IDE and SCSI, even higher end SCSI RAIDs) in FreeBSD is pretty crap.

    They show OpenBSD and Linux usually nearly doubling (in this case, more than doubling) FreeBSD performance in linear throughput. This is what PHK has to say about it, and I quote:

    "Shitty benchmark design."

    and

    "A sequential speed test like the one done here is pointless for 99.999% of all disks being used in the world."

    Excuse me for a minute. pfffh HAAA HAAAA HAAAAAA HAAAHAAHAHA HAAAHAAHA BBLBSD GGRAAAH BAAHH GGRRAAGH *choke* *cough*. Sorry, I had something caught in my throat. Now as I was saying, I'm glad this guy isn't looking after the block device subsystem of my operating system of choice.
  4. Re:what's the status with usb 2.0 ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Generally speaking everything which needs to be in the kernel is an indication of a kernel design failure.

    Bullshit you idiot.