FreeBSD Looks Ahead to 6.0

I was catching up on mailing list archives when I came across an announcement from Scott Long of FreeBSD's release engineering team, noting that after the rather substantial amount of time that it took to take FreeBSD 5 to a -STABLE designation, their release schedule will be speeding up in the future. With the official release of FreeBSD 5.3 coming Real Soon Now, a new branch for 6.0 is now tentatively scheduled for mid-2005. It would seem that while the version numbers may increase more rapidly, so will the rate at which new features are merged from -CURRENT, so end users can get new features faster.

Comments

gvinum still broken

[Anonymous Coward]

As you can see here, gvinum is still broken, after almost one year.

Scott, I'm still waiting for my patches to be reviewed and committed. But hey, I guess Poul-Hennings new toys have higher priorities than actually fixing ULE problems.

HawkinsOS, for the adult in you.

Re:Private message for Mr. Hawkins

[Anonymous Coward]

IMBECILE!. How is a message sent by other person talking about gvinum's bug a troll? I didn't even write that message.

Let me guess, you're that annoying AOL guy who keeps trolling the freebsd-questions mailing list, right? But you're not fooling anyone. We all know that TM4526@aol.com is no other than Doug-Erlang Smoorgreff.

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HawkinsOS: for the real coder in you.

Re:FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE Released

[Anonymous Coward]

This iso will need to be rerolled because Scott Long still hasn't managed to do a decent release in 2 years. He should have merged the gvinum patches, instead of calling a buggy OS -RELEASE.

I've noticed a big decline in quality since the big players (Dyson, Dillon, Smith, Hubbard) left the project. The quality in the 5.3 series is abysmal. Running 5-STABLE in production systems is suicidal, a sure recipe for disaster.

Hopefully some guy decided to put up and released a better alternative.

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HawkinsOS: kicking Smorgrav in the ass since 2004.