FreeBSD 6.2 Released To Mirrors

AlanS2002 writes "FreeBSD 6.2 has been released to mirrors. The release notes for your specific platform are also available. FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon64, and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PC-98, and UltraSPARC architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development."

Re:But wait.....

[MavEtJu]

If you're refering to the AT&T vs BSDi lawsuit, you're 10 years late :-)

Re:x86 compatible?

[Gothmolly]

Is there a point to your at least pedantic, and at most douchebaggy, comment about the difference between x86 and IA32?

Re:x86 compatible?

[DamnStupidElf]

Oh crap! What am I going to do with my cluster of 4Mhz XT machines now!?

Ha! I did it!

[Bluesman]

I was waiting, and waiting, and waiting for this release.

So last night I downloaded 6.1 and installed it.

Voila! 6.2 out today.

Wanna see it rain? I'm going to go wash my car.

Re:x86 compatible?

[ArsonSmith]

Not run FreeBSD on them?

Re:x86 compatible?

[NMerriam]

Oh crap! What am I going to do with my cluster of 4Mhz XT machines now!?

Yeah, I had the turbo switch fixed and everything...

Re:*BSD is Dying

[TheSHAD0W]

Considering the announcement in the topic...

"I'm not dead yet!"

"I'm getting better!"

"I don't want to go on the cart!"

Re:someday

[nukem996]

I think hes thinking of Redhat 6.2

Re:FreeBSD from scratch?

[RAMMS+EIN]

The BSDs don't work that way. Linux distros are made up of lots of separate parts, but BSDs are complete packages (for some definition of complete).

I don't know exactly how things work for FreeBSD, but with OpenBSD, it's like this: the OpenBSD team develops and maintains the whole operating system, consisting of kernel, libc, commands, compiler, documentation, X, etc. When you install, you get to choose sets: bsd, main, comp, etc, games, and so on. Some of these are mandatory, others are optional. This allows you to omit certain parts of the OS to save disk space. However, all of these are really part of the same package; you can't, say, use bsd from version 4.0 with comp from 3.8, or from an entirely different BSD flavor.

Besides the operating system, there is the ports tree. The ports tree consists of a ton of Makefiles with some patches, and allows you to install software that isn't part of the operating system proper. For example, if you wanted to install w3m, you could "cd /usr/ports/www/w3m && sudo make install". Typically, binary packages will also be provided for most architectures. The ports tree is only loosely coupled to the OS proper; ports may be updated while the OS stays at the same version, or not be updated when the OS version changes.