Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:12:19 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net> To: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available Message-ID: <635F9EBB-6C5E-4437-ABDE-99D0540BC774@anduin.net> In-Reply-To: <200507151711.05970@harrymail> References: <42D79676.6040606@samsco.org> <20050715115650.I66818@ganymede.hub.org> <200507151711.05970@harrymail>
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On Jul 15, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 16:58 CEST schrieb Marc G. Fournier: > >> And, for "the stupid question of the day" ... how long before 5.x >> is no >> longer supported? I'm just about to deploy a new server, and was >> *going* to go with 5.x, but would I be better just skipping 5.x >> altogether? Or are there such drastic changes in 6.x that doing >> so at >> this time wouldn't be prudent? >> > > To post my opinion to the last part of the question: I'm also > deploying new > servers and I'll take RELENG_6 since there are so many improovements > (nullfs in jails etc.) and 6-current has been pretty stable for me > on my Hoi, what's changed wrt jails? And nullfs? I haven't been following the "news" as closely as I perhaps should, but I feel that the jail functionality doesn't get half as much attention in release notes as it should... Porting my jail-related tools to 5.x from 4.x was painful, but enjoyable when I was done. How does 6.x look? /Eirik > UP workstation with all kinds of new stuff enabled (ULE > PREEMPTION), so I > guess I won't see more troubles than with 5.4, I think less :) > > -Harry > > >> >> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Scott Long wrote: >> >>> Announcement >>> ------------ >>> >>> The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the >>> availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the >>> FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. >>> >>> FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 >>> branch than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from FreeBSD 4. Much of the >>> work >>> that has gone into 6.0 development has focused on polishing and >>> improving the work from 5.x These changes include streamlining >>> direct >>> device access in the kernel, providing a multi-threaded SMP-safe >>> UFS/VFS filesystem layer, implementing WPA and Host-AP 802.11 >>> features, as well as countless bugfixes and device driver >>> improvements. Major updates and improvements have been made to ACPI >>> power and thermal management, ATA, and many aspects of the network >>> infrastructure. 32bit application support for AMD64 is also greatly >>> improved, as is compatiblity with certain Athlon64 motherboards. >>> This >>> release is also the first to feature experimental PowerPC support >>> for >>> the Macintosh G3 and G4 platforms. >>> >>> This BETA1 release is in the same basic format as the Monthly >>> Snapshots. For most of the architectures only the ISO images are >>> available though the FTP install tree is available for a couple >>> of the >>> architectures. >>> >>> We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be >>> identified and worked out. Availability of ISO images is given >>> below. >>> If you have an older system you want to update using the normal >>> CVS/cvsup source based upgrade the branch tag to use is RELENG_6 >>> (though that will change for the Release Candidates later). Problem >>> reports can be submitted using the send-pr(1) command. >>> >>> The list of open issues and things still being worked on are on the >>> todo list: >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html >>> >>> Since this is the first release of a new branch we only have a rough >>> idea for some of the dates. The current rough schedule is available >>> but most dates are still listed as "TBD - To Be Determined": >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/schedule.html >>> >>> Known Issues >>> ------------ >>> >>> For the PowerPC architecture /etc/fstab isn't written out >>> properly, so >>> the first boot throws you into the mountroot> prompt. You will need >>> to manually enter where the root partition is and fix /etc/fstab. >>> Also the GEM driver is listed as 'unknown' in the network config >>> dialog. >>> >>> For all architectures a kernel rebuild might be needed to get some >>> FreeBSD 5 applications to run. Add "options COMPAT_FREEBSD5" to the >>> kernel configuration file if you have problems with FreeBSD 5 >>> executables. >>> >>> >>> Availability >>> ------------ >>> >>> The BETA1 ISOs and FTP support are available on most of the FreeBSD >>> Mirror sites. A list of the mirror sites is available here: >>> >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors- >>> ftp. >>> html >>> >>> The MD5s are: >>> >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-alpha-bootonly.iso) = >>> eabda0a086e5492fe43626ce5be1d7e1 >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-alpha-disc1.iso) = d7fe900bb3d5f259cc3cc565c4f303e4 >>> >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = >>> 9b04cb2f68300071c717f4aa4220bdac >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) = cb0f21feaf8b7dd9621f82a8157f6ed8 >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-disc2.iso) = 84d40bc291a9ed5cd69dfa717445eeb5 >>> >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) = 38e0b202ee7d279bae002b883f7074ec >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) = b2baa8c18d4637ef02822a0da6717408 >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso) = 2b151a3cea8843d322c75ff76779ffcf >>> >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 97800ec7d4b29927a8e66a2b53e987fb >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-disc1.iso) = 7d29cd9317997136507078971762a0d8 >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-livefs.iso) = 6ff974e60a3964cf16fcec05925c14e9 >>> >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-pc98-disc1.iso) = 40a3134cce89bd5f7033d8b9181edf91 >>> >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = >>> 2f64974e9bd5adcf813f5d35ff742443 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-powerpc-disc1.iso) = >>> b2562c38414ff4866f5ed8b3a38683c8 >>> >>> MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = >>> ae9610aeb1169d2cc649628606014441 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = >>> af21752630b13cf60c9498fbf7f793b6 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc2.iso) = >>> 3241af814bfe93a97707c7a964c57718 >>> >>> >>> Thanks to Ken Smith, Marcel Moolenaar, Wilko Bulte, and Takahashi >>> Yoshihiro, and Peter Grehan for doing the sparc64, ia64, alpha, >>> pc98, >>> and ppc builds, respectively. Thanks also to Ken Smith for his help >>> on writing much of this announcement. >>> -- >>> This mail is for the internal use of the FreeBSD project committers, >>> and as such is private. This mail may not be published or forwarded >>> outside the FreeBSD committers' group or disclosed to other >>> unauthorised parties without the explicit permission of the author >>> (s). >>> >> >> ---- >> Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services >> (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: >> yscrappy >> ICQ: 7615664 >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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