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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. Bind version changed by Cronopios · · Score: 5, Informative

    An important difference is that BIND 9.3.0 has replaced BIND 8.x as the default name server.

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    Internet Explorer is obsolete. Please upgrade to Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
  2. Re:Very good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, once you branch a release you cannot make radical changes, that's why 4.x still has gcc 2.95 and why it has that ancient copy of perl. Because 5.x will be the -STABLE branch for years they decided it would be more practical to wipe perl out of the base and let people install it from ports. This way you can install 5.6 or 5.8 or whatever version you need/want.

    This wasn't done in 4.x because it would be against POLA (principle of least astonishment). A 4.10 system should work the same way 4.0 did unless a change is justified. You just cannot change the version of perl on a production system. Once all the perl scripts in base were replaced by sh+awk or C equivalents (so the system can work without perl), perl was taken out and the user is given the option to install a package during installation.

    Jaysen