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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. Alive by p0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Good to see it is still alive and very kicking.

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  2. I hope it's better than 5.3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I tried installing 5.3 back when that was released but all I got was a boot prompt and a solid tone/beep.

    I had followed the standard basic install, using the whole disk, etc. Obviously something was wrong with the bootloader. I did some searching but didn't really find anything. Some stuff seemed like a hell of a lot of work just to fix the issue so I gave up.

    (note that I have been using BSD systems for some 8 years but it's been about a year or two since I had to install one from scratch; I just remember that the install worked a lot better back then)

  3. Re:Commercial flavours of unix maybe. by Some+Random+Username · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about you give some evidence of either of your bullshit claims then?