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FreeBSD 4.11-RC2 Available

Posted by timothy on from the keeping-stable dept.

hugo_pt writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.11-RC2. This is the second of three scheduled release candidates. At the moment there are no known severe issues. However the Linux Emulation subsystem (mostly added as a package) has been completely updated based on Red Hat 8.0. We would appreciate people testing the Linux emulation support. In particular testing to see if Linux applications continue to behave correctly if the linux_* packages get installed while using sysinstall(8) during the initial installation of the machine. The package set for disc1 is still being decided on, what is on disc1 for this RC will most likely change before the release."

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  1. Why RedHat 8? by Trevin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Forgive my ignorance, since I don't usually follow the FreeBSD distro (having moved from NetBSD to RedHat over four years ago). But it seems a bit late to be targeting the Linux emulation towards RedHat 8.0. Not only has RedHat 9 already been obsoleted by Fedora, but 8.0 was extremely short-lived (even by RedHat's usual release timeline) having had numerous problems. In addition, before the days of RedHat Enterprise, RedHat recommended that users requiring stability stick with 7.2 (or something around there).

    1. Re:Why RedHat 8? by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 3, Interesting

      rh7 was a hack. its emulation was very broken for me (see my mp3 encoder post).

      rh8 libs and such finally make things work.

      in short, they did The Right Thing.

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      "It is now safe to switch off your computer."
    2. Re:Why RedHat 8? by molnarcs · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Of course, you are right, thanks.

  2. Re:Requiem for the FUD by BossMC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Dear AgainstTheFUD (840249), Being a FreeBSD user, I find myself reading the Slashdot BSD section once in a while. In light of the fact that your posts are somehow modded above 0, I end up reading your same stupid post over and over again. This is becoming a nuisance, as it is irrelevant to the story. At least the *BSD is dying trolls are modded down, thus shielding my eyes from "The FUD." I am politely asking you to shut the hell up. You are not providing a service; you are feeding the trolls in a routine fashion, and I hate it. Stop. Thanks in advance.

  3. Re:Kreskin said it ! by chinhngt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    May be you miss a thing, FreeBSD is not a commercial project/OS. The market share or some other shits is not a goal of FreeBSD (and maybe it's also right for others *BSD). So, please stop trolling here. I use both Windows and FreeBSD, and I love them, I don't care if they are popular or not. They help me solve my problems, help me understanding more prety things and that's enough.

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    MS-DOS since 6.0, Windows since 3.1, Novell Netware since 4.5 and FreeBSD since 4.5
  4. linux emulation FINALLY WORKS! by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 3, Interesting
    yay!

    the issue I had was with some closed-source (sigh) software that was linked against old old libc. it was a $200 mp3 encoder that I bought and ran fine under RH6.x. but never under later versions. even running this binary under modern LINUXs caused problems. this being the best encoder I have ever heard - and having paid $200 of my own money for it - I really wanted this to work. and since I'm now a 100% freebsd user, I needed this to work with bsd.

    it does now. I'm sooo happy about it. finally I can get rid of all my linux compute-servers on my mp3 render farm. they are now all 4.11 bsd boxes and couldn't be happier.

    I'll probably submit this to the bsd guys, but it would be nice if they included these files as well. I needed them for this last level of linux emulation:

    compat/linux/lib/libc.so.5
    compat/linux/lib/lib m.so.5
    compat/linux/lib/ld-linux.so.1

    those get you libc (not glibc) compat, from what I can tell. when I did an LDD on the mp3 encoder binary, it showed this:
    /usr/local/bin/mp3enc31:
    /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 => /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 (0x280ad000)
    libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x280b3000)
    libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x280bb000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x28184000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.1 => /lib/ld-linux.so.1 (0x2809a000)
    this is the first time since freebsd 3.4 (I think) that I've gotton this old linux binary to run under freebsd.

    again, yay!

    great work guys. you made my week.

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    "It is now safe to switch off your computer."
  5. Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3 in server by hubertf · · Score: 2, Interesting
    ``With the recent releases of NetBSD 2.0 and FreeBSD 5.3 operating system, many new and exciting features have been implemented. Both criticism and commendation on performance, reliability and scalability have been directed towards these releases.

    This paper presents a suite of benchmarks and results for comparing the performance of these operating systems. The benchmarks target core operating system functionality, server scalability and thread implementation. These benchmarks are useful server-based criteria for demanding applications such as loaded webservers, databases, and voice-over-IP (VoIP) media relays. The results indicate that NetBSD has surpassed FreeBSD in performance on nearly every benchmark and is poised to grab the title of the best operating system for the server environment.''

    Full paper: http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/gmcgarry/