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The much-anticipated public release of FreeBSD's 5.3-RELEASE was made official today through the release announcement by Scott Long, a member of FreeBSD's release engineering team. Improvements in this release include a kernel-level binary interface to allow running Windows NDIS network drivers, multithreaded and reentrant network and socket subsystems, inclusion of newer GCC and other development tools and many other improvements. You can take a look at the complete list of new features by visiting the release notes and errata pages for 5.3-RELEASE. Along with 5.3-RELEASE, the 5-STABLE branch is well underway. This means that FreeBSD's APIs, base-system applications and other important features won't undergo any critical changes that could disrupt upgrades from release to release throughout the rest of the FreeBSD 5 series. To find out more, visit FreeBSD's site.

08/31/2004 02:24 PM: FreeBSD Popularity Contest by duke
OSNews is discussing FreeBSD's popularity today. It is the most popular flavor of BSD, without a doubt. However, it still can't match up with certain distributions of Linux in this department. They ha...

07/16/2004 06:02 PM: FreeBSD 5 Installation Guide! by Jim_
I noticed this how-to by way of OSNews just now. If you have some Linux experience and you'd like to give FreeBSD 5 a try, this might help you get it installed. The first thing to understand about Fre...

05/27/2004 02:47 PM: FreeBSD 4.10 Released by Jim_
I noticed over at Slashdot that FreeBSD 4.10 has been released! It features a large merge of the USB code from the -CURRENT development branch, some conservative updates to a number of programs in the...

04/27/2004 01:01 PM: Painless FreeBSD System Updating by Jim_
I noticed a link to a FreeBSD CVSup how-to over at OSNews. For those of you relatively new to the world of FreeBSD, this might be interesting. One of the greatest advantages that *BSD has over other U...

02/26/2004 03:03 PM: FreeBSD 5.2.1 Released! by Jim
Thanks to OSNews.com for informing us that FreeBSD 5.2.1 has been released. Improvements and fixes? Significantly improved ATA/IDE and SATA handling. Problems with timeouts, error recovery, and certa...

01/28/2004 02:26 PM: FreeBSD 5.2 Review @ OSNews by Jim
Over at Slashdot I noticed a link to a review of FreeBSD 5.2 at OSNews. In my opinion, FreeBSD rocks as a server, but it is pretty poor as an "out of the box" desktop system is concerned. Bu...

01/12/2004 04:22 PM: FreeBSD 5.2 Released by Jim
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 in...

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...

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#32614 Posted on: 11/07/2004 05:56 AM This means I have a busy week ahead of me...I have a machine waiting for the -RELEASE to replace my [url="http://www.puresimplicity.net"]domain[/url], a machine ready to replace my file server at home, my firewall box at home, etc. It's going to be fun. Unix is user-friendly; it's just picky about its friends.

terminalrecluse is home now Posts: 3802 Joined: 2004-08-07

#32615 Posted on: 11/07/2004 07:04 AM Does this mean you will finish that request for teh 4.x vs 5.x thread? Err wait just realised this wasnt the -stable..... 121 total Ghz, 304GB in total memory... Arch Linux - stable : 3930k @ 4.4Ghz, 64GB DDR3, 120GB Samsung 840, HX850 DAS - Norco 4020 - 20x Seagate 3TB, 1KW PSU FBSD 10 ZFS server - SM Chassis, SM X8DTE, 2x L5520 Xeons, 48GB Reg DDR3 ULP, IBM 5015 w/ 512MB DDR2 cache, RAID-50 - 42TB storage Dell C6100 - 4 nodes, 2 1.1KW psu's, 2x L5520s, 6x e5530s, 192GB reg DDR3 (48GB each), F@H, etc

cowonmars Registered User Posts: 39 Joined: 2002-03-16

#32616 Posted on: 11/07/2004 07:24 AM Awesome. Good to see the FreeBSD team at work. Great operating system.

HEMI Registered User Posts: 2467 Joined: 2001-12-18

#32617 Posted on: 11/07/2004 07:42 AM terminalrecluse: there is a 5-STABLE branch now. I'm going to hopefully start working on the benchmark stuff soon. Unix is user-friendly; it's just picky about its friends.

terminalrecluse is home now Posts: 3802 Joined: 2004-08-07

#32618 Posted on: 11/07/2004 08:37 AM YES! That will be a good read. Good luck HEMI 121 total Ghz, 304GB in total memory... Arch Linux - stable : 3930k @ 4.4Ghz, 64GB DDR3, 120GB Samsung 840, HX850 DAS - Norco 4020 - 20x Seagate 3TB, 1KW PSU FBSD 10 ZFS server - SM Chassis, SM X8DTE, 2x L5520 Xeons, 48GB Reg DDR3 ULP, IBM 5015 w/ 512MB DDR2 cache, RAID-50 - 42TB storage Dell C6100 - 4 nodes, 2 1.1KW psu's, 2x L5520s, 6x e5530s, 192GB reg DDR3 (48GB each), F@H, etc

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#32619 Posted on: 11/07/2004 02:02 PM Sweet, though I won't be upgrading my server until the end of the semester, my laptop will be getting that sweet NDIS wrapper lovin' Me Webpage | If you always think like an expert, you'll always be a beginner. | "A handful of knowledgeable people is more effective than an army of fools" -Writing Secure Code, 2nd Ed.

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#32620 Posted on: 11/07/2004 10:45 PM Well I am downloading now.. will give this a shot on a spare box to try it out. First must read about the Tier One Hardware support and see if it will run on one of my boxes I have heard some really good things about the 5.x Branch. We shall see

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#32621 Posted on: 11/08/2004 04:34 PM Downloaded both ISOs in 25min! I just couldn't wait! (Actually, one of the two cable ISPs I use here in my house has a unmetered fileserver service where they host distros and other goodies locally...I get the full 10Mbit when downloading). Sempron (Socket 754): 2x Abit NF8-V (nForce3 250Gb) and ASRock K8SLI-eSATA2 (ULi M1697) Dual CPU love: Supermicro P6DBE (i440BX), PIIIDRE (i840), 2x PIIIDR3 (i840), 4x ASUS P3C-D (i820), and ACorp 6A815EPD1 (i815EP) OSs?: Linux, Solaris and BSDs.

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