FreeBSD 5.0 Available 372
Vegard writes "Although not yet officially announced, the 5.0 version of FreeBSD is beginning to appear on the FreeBSD FTP site and mirrors world wide." Congrats to the developers. Update: 01/19 17:44 GMT by T : Some more detail -- Dan writes "Scott Long of FreeBSD Release Engineering team has officially announced the availability of FreeBSD 5.0 release. Improvements include second generation UFS filesystem, GEOM, the extensible and flexible storage framework, DEVFS, the device virtual filesystem, Bluetooth, ACPI, CardBus, IEEE 1394 and many more! FreeBSD is also available on 64-bit sparc64 and ia64 platforms."
Release Notes (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/relnotes.htm
Re:Oh, hooray (Score:2, Informative)
which would mean it hasn't reached the mirrors yet
No. There were already copies of the release, on the mirrors I checked.
A few mirros (Score:5, Informative)
ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/IS
ftp://ftp2.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/IS
ftp://ftp5.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/I
ftp://ftp6.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-
ftp://ftp14.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IM
Please look also if the files appeared on the other mirrors.
Mirrors (Score:5, Informative)
Can't /. editors *PLEASE* *PLEASE* list mirrors rather than freebsd ftp directly??
Anyway .. here is a list of mirrors [freebsdmirrors.org] of FreeBSD [freebsd.org]. Don't know which works though. A mirror of the mirrors is available here [virtualave.net] Its *very* badly formatted though. Oh.. and suppress popups, will you please?
The stupid /. "postercomment" compression filter won;t let me post a list of mirrors ...
And to pre-empt stupid /. comments about Mirrors and Soviet Russia --
In Soviet Russia, FreeBSD Mirrors YOU
Re:My review of FreeBSD 5.0 (Score:0, Informative)
RC3 was a good experience (Score:5, Informative)
I use "slrn" to read the Usenet news, "lynx"/"links" to surf the web, "mutt" to read/send e-mail, "mpg123" to listen to music/internet radiostations. Truly great experience and imagine it works _really_ smoothly and fast on computer which was bought in 1995. I am impressed and a happy FreeBSD user!
Re:From the BSD 5.0 Bugs Page (Score:2, Informative)
But for a server (and I hope you aren't using BSD to play games on) SCSI is where it's at (although SATA shows promise, the tech still has a little maturing to do)
SCSI sub-systems handle loads much better and are much better at dishing out data.
Re:Free BSD for ALPHA anyone? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Free BSD for ALPHA anyone? (Score:2, Informative)
re concerned about linux/alpha support check out debian. well supported and stable.
Peter
Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
ISOs for i386 here:
mirror [130.237.77.139]
Dont forget to check the md5sums, I could be an evil blackhat after all. Enjoy.
Re:Oh, hooray (Score:2, Informative)
Re:great... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Hurrah for the BSD Team (Score:1, Informative)
Check out "man rfork_thread" which provides the same level of threading as Linux does (and Linux threading is not that great - far too heavyweight IMHO).
But, you are right, hopefully KSE in 5.0 should place FreeBSD at the forefront.
Jamie.
You don't need the 4 ISOs (Score:2, Informative)
I've installed 5.0 this morning(GMT) with no problems (it performs as fine as 4.x!). I think is stable enough for a Workstation (remember, 3 RC's behind), so I recommend you to install this version. Remember that a 4.x-5.x transition will not be easy.
Re:Release Notes (Score:3, Informative)
When companies realize the benefits fo the BSD license this will takeover the world.
Re:Release Notes (Score:4, Informative)
Early Adopter's Guide (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopte
Summary:
"While FreeBSD 5.0 contains a number of new and exciting features, it may not be suitable for all users at this time. In this document, we presented some background on release engineering, some of the more notable new features of the 5.X series, and some drawbacks to early adoption. We also presented some future plans for the 4-STABLE development branch and some tips on upgrading for early adopters."
BitTorrent Links for 5.0 release (Score:4, Informative)
Since Slashdot had to link to the FTP, maybe this will help lighten the stress on the mirrors : http://tacos.sus.mcgill.ca/~hperes/BT_BSD5.0/ [mcgill.ca] has BitTorrent files for the i386 release ISOs.
BitTorrent is a peer to peer fileswarmer. It's Free and Open Source, and comes in flavors for *ix, win32, and MacOS X. Clients are avaiable @ http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ [bitconjurer.org] ...
Once you have finished the download, please keep the window open as long as possible so that others can get the file as well. Thanks !
The download might be a little slow at the beginning, but as more and more people hop on, it should get really fast. Just give it a couple of minutes.
Re:Nice linking (Score:2, Informative)
Journaling, well, I don't think one could call SoftUpdates actual journalling.. but it works like a charm really. It's fast, reliable and there are no lenghty fsck's for when the server ever needs to reboot (security patches).
The servers I speak of have been running steadily for well over a year without any unplanned reboots. Of course I reboot them when security patches demand it, but those are few and many don't even require rebooting. I also had a disk blow up on me some months ago. Vinum did what it had to do and the box just kept on running. (Whose slogan is that again?? I never had this kind of 'luck' with NT-servers. RAID would work, but the box would go south together with a disk fairly soon)
As for the single CPU-bit: I don't have any first-hand experience with SMP-systems but I hear 5.0 has some really great support for SMP in its kernel quite on par with Solaris. Fileserving witn Samba, Netatalk and NFS isn't exactly taxing on the CPU, so I'd like to hear some experiences from people who do run renderfarms on FreeBSD.
Re:Nice linking (Score:5, Informative)
No, Linux has its own implementation of networking code rewritten from scratch.
This is why problems affecting the traditional *BSD implementation of TCP/IP (which is used pratically everywhere except for Linux) don't usually affect Linux. Of course, the opposite is also true.
That said, the FreeBSD kernel is known (or, at least, it has been known) for being able to handle high load/low resource conditions far more gracefully than Linux.
Re:Release Notes (Score:4, Informative)
I realize that many of the "hardcore haxx0rz" don't see the value in this documentation, but the fact that it exists and is maintained shows the professionalism and dedication the FreeBSD team has (which results in a damned fine OS!)
Re:Hasnt this happened before (Score:3, Informative)
Also, if you guys want the REAL release announcement, go here [freebsd.org]
Re:Oh yeah ! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:UFS1 vs UFS2 (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Release Notes (Score:2, Informative)
Apparently it helped them squash a few hard to find bugs in NFS on FreeBSD....
Re:Oh, hooray (Score:2, Informative)
Just installed it, so far so good (Score:2, Informative)
All seems to be working quite well so far.
Congratulations to the Release Team.
Re:Keeping it a secret. (Score:5, Informative)
On all, it was very unprofessional of the Slashdot editorial team.
Re:Release Notes (Score:3, Informative)
Wow. With that kind of wit and charisma, how can I hope to win an argument against you?
Good thing I've got a soft spot for lost causes.
Apple could have easily, (and legaly) built OS X on Linux, and simply kept aqua back, closed source, just like they did with BSD.
Maybe, if they'd been extremely careful to do everything just right. They still would have had to use the FreeBSD user environment, because the GNU one is just too restrictive (refer to the infamouse OpenSSL/GNU conflict).
But the most important point is one that you made in passing: "The only thing they wouldn't be able to do was release Darwin under a the APL [sic]." Apple released Darwin and other open source components under the APSL for a reason. Had they thrown their lot in with any GPL component or library, it would have "infected" the entire kernel or userland or whatever, making it impossible for Apple to retain ownership and control of their code.
And apple isn't the biggest Unix software company in the world
No? Computerworld, August 30, 2002: "Rendezvous isn't Apple's first foray into the open-source community. With the release of Mac OS X, Apple became the largest vendor of Unix in the world."
they're merely the largest growing due entirely to dumb looking computers (iMac, etc.)
Wow. You really got me there. We'd better not give Apple any credit for their accomplishments, because their computers look "dumb." You are absolutely right.
Pfff.