FreeBSD 4.9 RC2 Available 25
Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Eng. Team's Murray Stokely says that the FreeBSD team has resolved many of the issues brought up with the first release candidate and made FreeBSD RC2 ISO available for testing. They are especially interested in hearing from people who can deploy this on heavily loaded systems."
Re:kamikaze? (Score:5, Interesting)
Many big companies have labs for this purpose. Some machine that is similear to production, but used only for testing. Normally they have the ability to simulate real load. These labs are perfect places to try freebsd4.9rc2. Note that some are very strict about what gets into the labs when, but in general if you run FreeBSD on your production machines, you should be testing this release someplace. If you find a bug in a release canidate it can be fixed before release, wait until there is a full release to test only to find a bug that affects you, and you can't run the released. If you want something in 4.9, you have to run -stable, which means you may get one bug fixed only to find someone else introduced a different one. (Not likely, but it happens)