FreeBSD 4.11-RC2 Available

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."

Comments

Re:Requiem for the FUD

[BossMC]

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.

linux emulation FINALLY WORKS!

[TheGratefulNet]

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.

Re:Why RedHat 8?

[TheGratefulNet]

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.