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FreeBSD 5.3 Released

Posted by michael on from the only-mostly-dead dept.

cpugeniusmv writes "FreeBSD 5.3 has been released! This release marks a milestone in the FreeBSD 5.x series and the beginning of the 5-STABLE branch of releases. For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the release notes and errata list. Bittorrent Download."

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  1. FreeBSD uses gcc 2.4.2? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's pretty ancient.
    I know, it's a mistake. 3.4.3, or 3.4.2?

    Anyway, FreeBSD rules. I'm glad they waited to make 5.3 great.

    1. Re:FreeBSD uses gcc 2.4.2? by docbrazen · · Score: 5, Informative

      Ya, it's 3.4.2. GNU GCC has been updated from 3.3.3-prerelease as of 6 November 2003 to 3.4.2-prerelease as of 28 July 2004. -http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/relnotes-i38 6.html#NEW The release notes say the same thing for the other platforms as well.

    2. Re:FreeBSD uses gcc 2.4.2? by shlong · · Score: 5, Informative

      Yes, it's 3.4.2. While 3.4.3 was recently announced by the FSF, there certainly wasn't time to get it tested and properly integrated into 5.3. Anyways, it's one of a couple of typos in the announcement that I fixed in later emails.

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  2. Re:The torrent link is not working by cpugeniusmv · · Score: 5, Informative

    Torrent Mirror

  3. Re:upgrade 4.10 to 5.3 stable by Bodhammer · · Score: 5, Informative
    1) read /usr/src/UPDATING

    2) read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/h andbook/current-stable.html

    3) and this: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/FreeBSD53. html

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  4. Re:Upgrading from RC2? by drmerope · · Score: 5, Informative

    Best approach is to upgrade via source.

    pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui
    edit the example cvsup file:
    so that:
    *default release=cvs tag=.
    becomes
    *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3

    Then, do the following (quoted from /usr/src/UPDATING, slightly abridged because this is will be a small upgrade):
    make buildworld
    make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
    make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE

    make installworld

    You can omit the KERNCONF business if you just want to use the GENERIC kernel.