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FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 Released 116

Posted by michael from the try-and-die dept.
Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Scott Long has uploaded ISO images and FTP install bits for FreeBSD 5.2-RC1. i386, alpha, and pc98 are available now, amd64 will be available shortly, and sparc64 will be available shortly. Please test this as much as possible so that the FreeBSD Team can release a good 5.2-RELEASE next week. Testing focus for 5.2-RELEASE relates to PCM locking and performance issues, ATA driver improvements, GPT support for sysinstall, ATAng disk corruption issues, SMP and random_harvest panic, vinum data corruption, ACPI kernel module and reported NFS failures."
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FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 Released

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  • Just get 4-LATEST or 5-CURRENT...
  • Last night I was grabbing some 5.1 isos and happened to see 5.2 had just been updated to RC1 so I went ahead and grabbed them. As always another quality release from the FreeBSD team.

  • and use a mirror! (Score:5, Informative)

    by samhalliday ( 653858 ) on Thursday December 11, 2003 @11:57AM (#7690168) Homepage Journal
    here [freebsd.org]

    then go to releases/ARCH/ISO-IMAGES/5.2-RC1

  • Dead Project release 5.2 RC1 (Score:5, Interesting)

    by thefatz ( 97467 ) on Thursday December 11, 2003 @12:04PM (#7690246) Homepage
    Going strong, in a mature way! You know, I stay impressed with the quality of FreeBSD. As a longtime UNIX user and Linux user, FreeBSD has the professional "sheen" that I would expect from Solaris or AIX. While I enjoyed using Linux, it was the small things in FreeBSD that made me happy. Complete man pages, vs. halfway done man pages and broken info pages, or ports, or how there was a new kernel of the week (eerie similar to Microsoft). I like the fact that FreeBSD was rather set it up, update it, build your software, and forget about it. It's hard to make the 4.x series die, and the 5.x series is looking close to or already is enterprise ready. Good Luck, God Bless, and keep up the good work FreeBSD Team.
    • eh-- they say 5.3 will be the first stable release on the 5.x line. I would tend to take their word for it. Given how utterly rock solid previous FreeBSD-stable releases have proven, their opinions count for a lot.

      Unfortunately my spare box at the moment is garbage, otherwise I'd jump at this. I haven't been able to get anything other than Windows working on it.
      • they say 5.3 will be the first stable release on the 5.x line.

        Depending on your definition of "stable". I didn't use 5.0 much so I can't say anything there, but I've already found 5.1 at least as stable as Linux, or at times more stable considering some problems I've had on Linux. I won't say that 5x doesn't have issues, but I haven't encountered any really.

        If my inital tests of 5.2 pan out (which I have no doubt they will) then I will finally begin the migration from Redhat 7.3 to FreeBSD. If I have
        • I have had nothing but problems with the 5.x series.

          I use the ports to build everything and not pkg_add. The ports tree is quite broken in alot of area's.

          No kernel panics I admit but it was almost as bad as Gentoo.

          I switched back to 4.9 and I noticed the ports work and they are also more up to date.

          Also I tried using just pkg_add under 5.1 and some of the apps were broken.

          Still would not trust it yet.

          • That's odd. I used 5.1 back when it was first released. I built, from the ports tree, well over 250 hundred packages, including KDE, gnome, mozilla, MozillaFirebird, mplayer, ffmpeg, quake2forge, videolan, jdk13, openoffice, abiword, and many others.

            Care to tell us what you were unable to build from the ports tree?
            • I use the instant-workstation port, which includes over a gig of userfull apps like kde, acrobat, python, mozilla, and gnome. This port would not compile all the way through.

              The other problem I had was with the nvidia driver.

              However later on, I relized I was not supposed to use any -o settings, so I was at fault there since I modified /etc/defaults/make.conf to include -O3.

              Also I got Mozilla to build but javascript would not run by default making it almost useless. I observed the same problem with 4.8. I
          • the ported software has nothing to do with the o/s release... if you cvsup'd your ports you'd realize that everything would be "up to date."
        • I've always been a BSD fan, but mostly for server needs. I've never really tried it for desktop use. For server, 5.1 was plenty stable. However, several ports for more "desktop-ish" apps are still broken. Most of them aren't important, but there are a few that I am looking forward to having fixed (boehm-gc, mono, etc.).

  • FreeBSD must be good (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    .... otherwise this mentally retarded deranged individual wouldn't be spending so much time trying to discredit it.

    Seems like this nut runs a Windows or Linux business and feels threatened by FreeBSD!

    Can't wait for FreeBSD 5.2 next week, this freak will go nuts!

  • What I would really like to see is multiple IP's and private System V IPC in jails. It doesn't look like it made it into 5.2, unfortunately....

    --
    OpenHosting [openhosting.com] Virtual Servers for the geeks.

  • two items (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Two thoughts come to mind while reading this:

    1) Haven't they asked you, repeatedly, (and besides that, isn't it better etiquette...) to point to a list of mirrors instead of directly to an FTP site?

    2) Just saw an ad for Slashdot personals. Heh.

    Me: So, you read slashdot?
    Her: Yeah.
    Me: I gotta get going now, nice meeting you.
  • If you are upgrading to 5.2-RC1 (or -CURRENT) via cvsup/buildworld, make sure that you read UPDATING - just like I didn't :-). Of course, this applies to any time you build. However, it's especially important now or you will have a broken system.

    Graham

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