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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. FreeBSD on Compaqs by Black+Acid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Recent Compaq/HP laptop users can't run FreeBSD. This problem has been known since July and still not fixed in this release. FreeBSD 5.3 (all betas, RCs, and the release itself), 5.2, 5.1, 5.0, all versions of FreeBSD 4 and 3 cannot run on Compaq Presario R3000Z and similar laptops, in either i386 or AMD64 mode. When is this going to be fixed? How come the patch exists.... works perfectly.... and isn't being commited?

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  4. Re:Doesn't Matter by mkro · · Score: 5, Funny
    In five years, either FreeBSD will have adopted DragonflyBSD's model, or nobody will be using FreeBSD.
    Matt? Is that you?
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  5. 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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  6. Re:Excellent OS by HenryKoren · · Score: 5, Insightful
    FreeBSD is okay for many users but it has slowed down tremendously, lost a lot of cleanliness too
    Regretfully admitting that FreeBSD 5.3 is crap

    You my friend, are a Troll. As an avid user of FreeBSD 4,5, 4.10, 5.1, 5.2.1, and now 5.3RC2, I can personally guarantee that you have no fucking Idea what you are talking about. Lost cleanliness, my ass! The improvements in 5.3 are awesome. The integration of BIND 9 into the base inside a chroot jail is excellent. The separation of Perl from the base also helped to clean it up. The user experience is awesome in 5.3... My Ghz athlon server has 500+ ports installed, every service you could imagine, and runs X.org with OpenGL flawlessly. I notice a distinct increase in performance and functionality after CVSUPing from 5.2.1 to 5.3 RC2. With a streamlined kernel and good old SCHED_4BSD what exactly is so "unclean"? Have you had a personal experience with 5.3 or are you just spouting mindless zealotry? Why are you on a personal quest for schism in the BSD community?

    Calling anything so massively successful "crap" is just pure ignorance. Are Linux and Windows, or anything that's not NetBSD also crap? Please share.... The /. mods obviously can't get enough of your idiotic pontification.

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  7. 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.