FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE Now Available 100
cperciva writes "FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE, the fourth release from the highly successful 6-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, has been released. In addition to being available from many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."
Dedicated to Itojun (Score:5, Informative)
Looking forward to 7.0 (Score:5, Informative)
FreeBSD 6.3 for me and my servers will be the last update to the series before switching over to the new hopefully soon to be released 7.0. My suggestion for anyone planning on trying FreeBSD out after having heard about this new release, grab whatever the latest RC disc is of 7.0 and play with that. There is practically no difference between the two, when it comes to userland and will make it easier to stay up to date by already being being on the right branch.
I definitely need to check out freebsd-update. See if it can be used in our systems to keep them up to date, with less down time than using the rebuild world and kernel steps that we take currently.
Re:A very niche OS (Score:5, Informative)
Besides that? I find that it is more consistent. If you move from one Linux distribution to another, you need to go hunting for the configuration files, they are not in a set location as specified by man hier. I know that when I install something from the ports tree, the configuration files can always be found in
Re:A very niche OS (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Looking forward to 7.0 (Score:5, Informative)
See these slides [freebsd.org] by Kris Kennaway for more details on that.
Re:better engineered? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:better engineered? (Score:4, Informative)