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FreeBSD 5.4 Released

Posted by timothy on from the still-free-too dept.

FreeBSD 5.4 is out. Reader KFW excerpts from the announcement: "The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD Stable development branch. Since FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE in November 2004 we have made many improvements in functionality, stability, performance, and device driver support for some hardware, as well as dealt with known security issues and made many bugfixes." Here are the release notes.

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  1. Remember, cvsup is your friend! by nubbie · · Score: 4, Informative

    Using CVSup and then Rebuilding "world"

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  2. Re:congrats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Generally the mailing list comes out with patches much quicker than other flavors of *nix. 24 hour turn around times with patches is not uncommon for FreeBSD (They pride themselves with security)

  3. Re:congrats by jwthompson2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    As fast as they are fixed, which in reality ends up being comparable to Linux, just listen on the appropriate mailing lists and follow the step-by step instructions. There are also some automated utilities in the ports collection that ease security updates. The BSD ports system will take care of most of your packaging concerns as well since it is an actively updated collection, although most require compilation from source there is the binary alternative, package, which should be easy enough for most RPM folk I would imagine.

    Check out this link regarding packages and ports.

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  4. Torrents are your friends: by rkrabath · · Score: 5, Informative


    ##### Disk One #####

    ##### Disk Two #####

    Of course, in their infinate wisdom, the coders of slashdot have decided to make my life difficult with their damn lameness filters

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    1. Re:Torrents are your friends: by acidos · · Score: 5, Informative

      If you buy a set from BSD Mall they now come with both 2 CDs and a DVD that has all sorts of extra packages on it, for the same price that just the 2 CDs would cost you in the past.

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  5. 5.4 Dedication by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The FreeBSD 5.4 Release is dedicated to the memory of Cameron Grant. Cameron was an active FreeBSD Developer and principal architect of the sound driver subsystem despite his physical handicap. His is a superb example of human spirit dominating over adversity. Cameron was an inspiration to those who met him; he will be fondly remembered and sorely missed.

    http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/announce.html

  6. Re:congrats by cperciva · · Score: 4, Informative

    24 hour turn around times with patches is not uncommon for FreeBSD

    In all honesty... 24 hours is very unusual for us. I can think of one case where it happened recently, but that was when we rushed an advisory out in order to fit into the 5.4 release schedule.

    A more typical time is 3 days, since we want to test carefully to make certain that a "security fix" never ends up breaking something else.

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