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I noticed by way of Slashdot that FreeBSD 5.2 has been released and is available on several mirrors.

The Release notes are over here. HEMI is our FreeBSD guru and he didn't even hook me up with this information. I wonder what I pay him for!

04/10/2003 04:14 PM: FreeBSD Boots on x86-64 by Jim
I was cruising the news sites and I noticed this tasty morsel over at Slashdot. FreeBSD developer Peter Wemm has successfully booted FreeBSD on a Clawhammer in both 64 and 32-bit modes. FreeBSD 5.0-CU...

01/20/2003 11:15 AM: FreeBSD 5.0 - RELEASE now available by JohNEE
Conveniently carrying on with the *nix and server theme, FreeBSD has announced FreeBSD 5.0 is now available: It is my privilege and pleasure to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. The c...

04/02/2002 08:08 AM: Anti-Unix Site Hosted on a FreeBSD Box... by Jim
Oh the irony.Several sites have reported on this already, but not with the flair and panache that 2CPU.com regulars are accustomed to. So here goes: In an article written a few days ago by CNET, it be...

01/31/2002 05:45 AM: FreeBSD 4.5-Release Available! by Jim
Cory mentioned to me this evening as we were watching the Cowboy Bebop Movie that Slashdot had a note up stating FreeBSD 4.5-Release was ready to go.I'm doing a 'make buildworld' right now, actually. ...

02/09/2001 06:23 PM: Linux 2.4 vs. FreeBSD 4.1.1 -- Servers by J0rdan
Courtesy of the Tech Report we have some decent linkage for you. Byte.com has a little comparison of how Linux 2.4 stacks up against FreeBSD 4.1.1 in the server arena. What makes this even better is t...

12/09/2000 10:48 PM: FreeBSD 4.2 Review! by J0rdan
Duke of URL has decided to play with the latest release of FreeBSD, version 4.2. Is FreeBSD's binary compatibility too good to be true? Not at all. It almost seems ludicrous that it works so well, but...

08/14/2000 07:21 PM: FreeBSD Basics... by J0rdan
This is just something I noticed during the daily pilgrimage to Slashdot. Dru Lavigne was nice enough to write up a little introduction to FreeBSD and to go over the basic concepts and commands. In th...

08/08/2000 10:10 PM: FreeBSD 4.1! by J0rdan
I'm a little late on this one, but I honestly just noticed it on Slashdot today. FreeBSD 4.1 is ready to go. You can check out the announcment over here. Time to update my cd collection... again. Why ...

08/01/2000 03:24 PM: Hotmail: FreeBSD --> Win2k? by J0rdan
According to The Register, Microsoft is preparing to switch their Hotmail platform from FreeBSD over to Windows 2000. This has been an ongoing embarrassment for MS for obvious reasons. At the moment, ...

07/18/2000 01:01 AM: FreeBSD 4.0 Review! by J0rdan
I was making my daily pilgrimage to Slashdot and noticed a link to this review of FreeBSD 4.0. Needless to say the author seems quite taken with it. At the risk of sounding like a zealot, I will say t...

HEMI Administrator Posts: 2744 Joined: 2001-12-18

#25807 Posted on: 01/12/2004 10:46 PM Probably cause it's not officially out yet. The release docs are there, mirrors are updating and other things are being done for the release, but there's no official release announcements yet. The [url="http://www.freebsd.org"]site[/url] still says the latest is 5.1. There's been problems in the past with someone from slashdot jumping the gun and saying a -RELEASE is out when it isn't. People download the images and have got bad code in the past because release engineering decided to make some last-minute updates to fix a few final problems, etc. before sending the release announcement. Until there's a release announcement, it's not official. Don't get bit by grabbing -RELEASEs before they are announced. Unix is user-friendly; it's just picky about its friends.

Jim_ Administrator Posts: 3577 Joined: 2000-03-15

#25808 Posted on: 01/12/2004 10:47 PM Thanks for the update HEMI. This is why you're our FreeBSD guru, beotch. :-) [url="http://www.jimkirk.org"]jimkirk.org[/url] - Not a Myth any Longer. Just a Dad.

SUOrangeman Finally went SMP Posts: 690 Joined: 2002-01-23

#25809 Posted on: 01/13/2004 01:48 AM I'm averaging over 3MB/s from http://ftp6.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/5.2 Good stuff! -SUO SuperMicro X7DCA-L-O (mATX) | 2x Intel Xeon L5420 | 6x 2GB Kingston Reg DDR2-667 | Intel G2 160GB SSD + 2x WD2002FYPS + Seagate 4TB | GalaxyTech 8800GT HDMI| 2x Asus MS228H | Win7 Ultimate x64

Mr. Hahn Unregistered

#25810 Posted on: 01/13/2004 02:42 AM well crap, I went ahead and installed it. it should probably be fine though right?

HEMI Administrator Posts: 2744 Joined: 2001-12-18

#25811 Posted on: 01/13/2004 02:59 AM Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:25:30 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Long X-X-Sender: scottl@pooker.samsco.home To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.2 Released! It is once again my great privilege and pleasure to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE. Building upon the success of FreeBSD 5.1, this release includes: - Full Tier-1 support for single and multiprocessor AMD Athlon64 and Opteron systems. - Dynamically linked root partition for a smaller installation footprint and better integration with the Name Service Switch subsystem. - New and improved driver support for IDE, SATA, and 802.11a/b/g devices, and significantly better integration with the ACPI power management subsystem. - Client support for the Network File System version 4 protocol. - Experimental first-stage support for multithreaded filtering and forwarding of IP traffic. This also provides the foundation for a fully multi-threaded network stack in the next release of FreeBSD. - In-box support for the latest Gnome 2.4 and KDE 3.1 desktops. I truncated the message to not waste space. Now it's official. Chances are good the early-grabbers are fine since they didn't make any announcements about having to rebuild images for any reason. Unix is user-friendly; it's just picky about its friends.

dualboot_2xcpu Removed from forum Posts: 2396 Joined: 2001-07-16

#25812 Posted on: 01/13/2004 06:18 AM multithreaded network stack eh? does that mean smp servers will be able to handle much more of a load? alex I finally have SMP. Looking for the next Mrs. Right now (c) 2004. HEMI.

i_wolf labhair dom as gaelige Posts: 2034 Joined: 2002-11-19

#25813 Posted on: 01/13/2004 09:33 AM \woot/ ok... someone with a dual opteron let me know how she is cookin for you under 5.2! Hung like a donkey. Go like a horse!

Mr. Hahn Unregistered

#25814 Posted on: 01/13/2004 12:49 PM well, it seems that 5.2 does not like either me, or my system. I'll get everything installed, then when I want to startx xwindows the system hangs... maybe it'll work out in a few months, I mean it was beta just yesterday morning. Anyways, im back to 5.1 now.

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