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FreeBSD 4.9 Code Freeze 136

Posted by michael from the stop-in-the-name-of-love dept.
lewiz writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering have announced that the code freeze in preparation for 4.9-RELEASE (scheduled for 29th September) will begin on 25th August. Also 4.9-RC is tentatively scheduled for 12th September. A full list of dates can be found on the Release Process page."
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  • In Other News... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21, 2003 @09:42AM (#6754434)
    The SCO is offering licences for the use of 0 and 1 in free bsd, at the low price of $699 per bit, with an increase to $1399 after October 15th.

  • Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    *crickets chirp*

    • Re:Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! (Score:4, Interesting)

      by mhesseltine ( 541806 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @10:42AM (#6755056) Homepage Journal

      Sure, no one seems to care now. However, wait until the SCO gestapo starts really trying to nail down their "licensing fees" from users. FreeBSD will see a huge influx of new users, migrating over from Linux.

    • Re:Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! (Score:5, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21, 2003 @11:10AM (#6755424)
      I'm sure the Linux fanboy base that makes up the core of Slashdot readers are all pleased to hear that another free OS is making progress. I'm sure they will all show up here to show their support as soon as all crusades against Linux and Geekdom in general are brought to an end and Microsoft is destroyed!

      In the meantime FreeBSD uses will be content to stay out of the limelight while Slashdot fights those terribly important battles. :rolleyes:
      • Ok, since I'm something of a neophyte, I'm going to show my ignorance and ask, what are the big differences between *BSD and linux. I know they're related. I've been under the impression that they share a relatively wide variety of software. With BSD being thought of as more stable, and linux a little more flashy with some of the software, like wine x, available for it.

        Please disabuse me.

        • Re:Be gentle... (Score:1, Insightful)

          by Anonymous Coward
          Here's the deal.

          They are enough alike that GNU/Linux users should be shouting down the BSD is dying trolls in the same way the BSD proponents should be helping out WRT the Linux lawsuit of SCO. Preceived 'leaders' like Linus, Alan Cox, et la of the 'linux movement' would be the obvious choices to lead by example. Another example would be Miguel de Icaza.

          Instead, you have people like Bruce Perens saying 'its not my job to support BSD' (Yet he claims to be an Open Source advocate), the Open Source Develo

    • Re:Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! (Score:5, Informative)

      by cperciva ( 102828 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @11:11AM (#6755436) Homepage
      I, for one, agree here. 4.9-RELEASE isn't really all that exciting. Of course, it's not supposed to be exciting -- it's from the STABLE branch; new and exciting features don't belong in the STABLE branch.

      Now, if there was a completely new scheduler or virtual memory system, or a couple data-corruption on unmount bugs, that would be exciting. But in FreeBSD, that sort of thing doesn't get into the STABLE branch.

  • Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! (Score:1, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Most of us FreeBSD fans will be far more excited when FreeBSD 5.x becomes stable, and has things like KSE enabled by default. 4.x is a aging branch with only limited whiz-bang appeal.

  • Features List (Score:5, Informative)

    by rf0 ( 159958 ) <rghf@fsck.me.uk> on Thursday August 21, 2003 @04:59PM (#6759432) Homepage
    4.9 Release notes [freebsd.org] showing what is going in/being fixed

    Rus

  • Loud and Proud, Put Away That Silly Shroud (Score:5, Insightful)

    by SlashCrunchPop ( 699733 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @10:49PM (#6761904)

    I was wondering, can any of the people who seem to be badmouthing FreeBSD all the time code? If so, have you contributed at least a line of code to making your much beloved Linux better? If so... Wait a minute, I'm talking to myself now.

    Seriously though, if you are not contributing in any way, but still think that just being a fan makes you superior to other teams and their fans, you should think about this: the game is not about you, you're just observers and if your team should cease to exist, you wouldn't know what to do with a football to save your life. So put your scarf on, cheer like a good sport, but leave the criticism to those who actually play the game.

  • OFFTOPIC: but please help a n00b out (Score:1, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I'm interested in trying out FreeBSD or any of the other BSD operating systems. My one main concern is backups. There are a whole slew of backup solutions for Linux, mainly LVM and filesystem snapshots comes to mind. LVM also allows you take incremental snapshots which is a big plus for me. I heard in #freebsd on irc.freenode.net that FreeBSD 5 has filesystem snapshots but no incremental =(

    And another thing. Are there any plans in the future of the FreeBSD project where binary updates will be officially su

    • I don't know of any commerical backup utilties, but Freebsd supports things like Amanda.

      I typically use a simple dump script for backing up 5.x systems:

      /sbin/rdump ${LEVEL}uaLf $DIR $FS

      Dump will do a snapshot in case of any file system changes during the dump. FYI, a make world usually isn't needed, as you can just re-make that particular peice of code, or rebuild the kernel if it is a kernel change.

  • The big new feature appears to be... (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    PAE-physical address extensions, ported over from 5-CURRENT. I wonder if they're going to put out a version 4.10, because PAE doesn't yet work on all the drivers in current much less all that many drivers in 4-STABLE.
  • FreeBSD Frozen: Does that mean it is finally dead ;-)

    Oh well, looking forward to the 5.2 release, however, it is good to see that 4.x series are continuing to be developed as the temptation by some uname groups to focus more on the sexy/cool version rather than the boring maintainance work that is required.

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