Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:58:31 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available Message-ID: <20050715115650.I66818@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <42D79676.6040606@samsco.org> References: <42D79676.6040606@samsco.org>
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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? 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
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