From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 16 10:58:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24BD816A4CE for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:58:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB2643D1F for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:58:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from dsc01-chc-il-209-109-227-235.rasserver.net ([209.109.227.235] helo=nbritton.org) by grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AsnwM-0000CN-00; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:57:58 -0800 Message-ID: <403112B4.1080801@nbritton.org> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:57:56 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DerAlSem , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <9810709762.20040215031601@inbox.ru> <40305B6B.9030608@nbritton.org> <995841125.20040216154554@inbox.ru> In-Reply-To: <995841125.20040216154554@inbox.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 5.2.1 RC? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:58:03 -0000 DerAlSem wrote: >Hello Nikolas, > >Monday, February 16, 2004, 8:55:55 AM, you wrote: > >NB> DerAlSem wrote: > > > >>>Hello freebsd-newbies, >>> >>> I want latest release of FreeBSD. >>> 5.2.1-RC2-i386-disc1.iso - RC2 stands for Release Candidate 2? Does >>> anyone knows, when it'll become Master? >>> >>> >>> >NB> FreeBSD 5.2.1 will be release in a week or two. 5.2.1 is being released >NB> because of some bugs in 5.2 that went unnoticed. Because it's based on >NB> 5.2 code and not the the current cvs head you should be able to safely >NB> use the RC now and just CVSup to 5.2.1 when released. > >Hm, i'n using 5.1 now... Just few net-servers (ftp,www,irc, and home >NAT). And as a newbie, a don't know about CVS... man cvs, am i right? > not the man pages, read the following from the FreeBSD Handbook, after read you should be able to use CVSup, upgrade the whole system (tracking current or stable), install/upgrade ports, and install/update Kernels and no you don't have to know everything by heart, skim through all if it then bookmark/print/makenotes of the key info. Start with the ports system, then the kernel, and then building world. Appendix A.5 Using CVSup: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html Chapter 21 The Cutting Edge: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html Chapter 9 Configuring the FreeBSD Kernels: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Chapter 4 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html > >NB> BTW: FreeBSD 4.9 is the lastest "Production" Release. The 5.0, 5.1, and >NB> 5.2.x releases are still considered beta. > >But 5.0 and 5.1 and 5.2 as far as i know is in "RELEASE" status. I >thought, it's mean, that i can use them, and they are free of bugs and >security holes. > Yes you can use it and it should work perfect for you, but the code is untested. So 4.9 is still recommended for mission critical deployments. Read this, It explains a lot of thing about the *BSDs: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php > >NB> More info why 5.2.1 was cut: >NB> http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=18954 >NB> http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=18471 > >O, great thank for info! > > > >