[olug] Fw: FreeBSD 5.0 Release Available
neal r
neallist at wispair.net
Mon Jan 20 17:57:26 UTC 2003
I've had 5.0rc1 running on a workstation for some time ... no complaints. I
think the actual release was rc3, so its had much bug fixing since the
version I've got working, which has been trouble free.
There are some who are more conservative - I am pretty sure 4.8-RELEASE
will be out within the next thirty days.
Is anyone besides me using BSD? Chris Garrity, apparently Brian, too - any
others willing to come out of the closet?
Brian Roberson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Long" <scottl at freebsd.org>
> To: <freebsd-announce at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 11:03 AM
> Subject: FreeBSD 5.0 Release Available
>
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> >
> > It is my privilege and pleasure to announce the availability of FreeBSD
> > 5.0-RELEASE. The culmination of nearly three years of work, this
> > release starts FreeBSD on the path of advanced multiprocessor and
> > application thread support and introduces support for the sparc64 and
> > ia64 platforms. Among the long list of new and improved features:
> >
> > - UFS2, the second generation UFS filesystem, shatters the current 1TB
> > filesystem barrier.
> > - Background filesystem checking (bgfsck) and filesystem snapshots
> > eliminate the need for downtime to do filesystem repair and backup
> > tasks.
> > - Experimental support for Mandatory Access Controls (MAC) provide
> > an extensible and flexible means for administrators to define system
> > security policies.
> > - Fine-grained locking in the kernel paves the road for much higher
> > efficiency of multi-processor systems.
> > - Support for Bluetooth, ACPI, CardBus, IEEE 1394, and experimental
> > hardware crypto acceleration keeps FreeBSD at the forefront of new
> > technology.
> > - The GCC 3.2.1 compiler provides the latest installment of the
> > ever-improving GNU Compiler Collection.
> > - GEOM, the extensible and flexible storage framework, and DEVFS,
> > the device virtual filesystem, simplify storage and device
> > management while opening the door for new enterprise storage
> > technologies.
> > - Support for the sparc64 and ia64 platforms expands FreeBSD's
> > support of advanced 64-bit computing platforms.
> >
> > Although FreeBSD 5.0 contains a number of new and exciting features, it
> > may not be suitable for all users. More conservative users may prefer
> > to continue using FreeBSD 4.X. Information on the various trade-offs
> > involved, as well as some notes on future plans for both FreeBSD 4.X
> > and 5.X, can be found in the Early Adopter's Guide, available here:
> >
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter.html
> >
> > For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
> > release notes and errata list, available here:
> >
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/relnotes.html
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/errata.html
> >
> > For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities,
> > please see:
> >
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
> >
> > Availability
> > - ------------
> >
> > FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE supports the i386, pc98, alpha, sparc64, and
> > ia64 architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the
> > boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for
> > all architectures are available now.
> >
> > Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media
> > from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies will be
> > offering FreeBSD 5.0 based products:
> >
> > FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/
> > Daemonnews, Inc. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html
> >
> > If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to
> > use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO
> > images. We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the
> > larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
> > ftp://ftp12.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
> > ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
> > ftp://ftp{2,3,4,5}.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
> > ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
> > ftp://ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
> > ftp://ftp.lt.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
> > ftp://ftp2.za.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
> > ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
> > ftp://ftp{1,2,4}.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
> >
> > FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the
> > following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada,
> > China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
> > Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Lithuania,
> > Mitchistan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
> > Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain,
> > Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
> >
> > Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional
> > mirror(s) first by going to:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
> >
> > Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.
> >
> > More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:
> >
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.ht
> > ml
> >
> > For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The
> > FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through
> > for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at:
> >
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html
> >
> > Acknowledgments
> > - ---------------
> >
> > Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to
> > finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 5.0 including
> > The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and
> > NTT/Verio.
> >
> > The release engineering team for 5.0-RELEASE includes:
> >
> > Scott Long <scottl at FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering and
> > Building
> > Bruce A. Mah <bmah at FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering,
> > Documentation
> > Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Security
> > John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
> > Murray Stokely <murray at FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
> > Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at FreeBSD.org> IA64 Release Building
> > Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan at FreeBSD.org> PC98 Release Building
> > Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> Package Building
> > Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar at FreeBSD.org> Security Officer
> >
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