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FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE Available

Posted by michael on from the keep-on-plugging dept.

noackjr pastes "'The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD Legacy development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE in May 2004 we have made conservative updates to a number of software programs in the base system, dealt with known security issues, and made many bugfixes.' See the release, hardware and installation notes for more information. Currently there are no errata. FreeBSD 4.11 is available via BitTorrent or one of the many mirrors."

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  1. Nice, but 5.x is nice for new installations by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think it's great that they're maintaining the 4.x branch for a little while longer for those who can't afford to upgrade today. Still, if you're on 4.x and haven't made the jump because you're nervous about it, this is an excellent time to do so. I'm running it on several production servers, and it's at least as fast for everything I've thrown at it (and quite a bit faster at some things).

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
  2. Please Support FreeBSD by wikinerd · · Score: 4, Informative

    Please don't download FreeBSD but prefer to buy it on CDROM, preferably from FreeBSDmall.com, which is linked from FreeBSD "Getting" page. This way you can support FreeBSD. Another way to help the project is to donate money.

  3. BitTorrent (the right link) by wikinerd · · Score: 3, Informative

    Please help to save bandwidth by using BitTorrent to download FreeBSD.

  4. Re:No Errata? by ve · · Score: 2, Informative

    info about bugfixes would have gone into the release notes. errata paper contains info about bugs/problems that were discovered late in the release cycle and not yet fixed. they state it pretty clearly in the beginning of both papers:
    4.11R errata
    4.11R relnotes

  5. Re:Fast on older h/w? by archen · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've found 5x to be... well hard to predict. On a K6-400 I found an improvement in performance, although I have absolutely no idea why. On my first computer (P166/192Mb RAM) I found the performance to be rather poor. I suppose it depends on what you run as well. I'm runing Apache2 (with random CGI), Postgresql, with a Music Player Daemon playing ogg/mp3 at times. But maybe I just idealize how fast I expect the machine to run, since I recall only being able to run Paint Shop Pro 5, Netscape and Winamp (1.8 or lower) at one time on win95.

    Support for old NIC cards seem to be fine as far as I've seen.

    For a 486 stick with 4x or NetBSD. On a 233... I'm not sure. Just keep in mind that the minimum recommended swap is 256Mb no matter how little ram you have.

  6. Re:Fast on older h/w? by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 4, Informative
    On a K6-400 I found an improvement in performance, although I have absolutely no idea why.

    One big reason may be that 5.x uses GCC 3.4.2, which has much better optimization than GCC 2.9.5 in 4.x. I upgraded some pretty unusual hardware (an older Alpha) and saw tremendous speed increases (several hundred percent) in a few areas, like running "openssl speed".

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?