FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE Available

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."

Comments

Nice, but 5.x is nice for new installations

[Just Some Guy]

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).

Please Support FreeBSD

[wikinerd]

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.

Re:Fast on older h/w?

[Just Some Guy]

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".