Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:10:56 +0200 From: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available Message-ID: <200507151711.05970@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <20050715115650.I66818@ganymede.hub.org> References: <42D79676.6040606@samsco.org> <20050715115650.I66818@ganymede.hub.org>
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--nextPart2366701.DakFbG5TGv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 servers and I'll take RELENG_6 since there are so many improovements=20 (nullfs in jails etc.) and 6-current has been pretty stable for me on my=20 UP workstation with all kinds of new stuff enabled (ULE PREEMPTION), so I=20 guess I won't see more troubles than with 5.4, I think less :) =2DHarry > > 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.=20 > > 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) =3D eabda0a086e5492fe43626ce5be1d7e1 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-alpha-disc1.iso) =3D d7fe900bb3d5f259cc3cc565c4f303e4 > > > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) =3D 9b04cb2f68300071c717f4aa4220bdac > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) =3D cb0f21feaf8b7dd9621f82a8157f6ed8 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-disc2.iso) =3D 84d40bc291a9ed5cd69dfa717445eeb5 > > > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) =3D 38e0b202ee7d279bae002b883f7074ec > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) =3D b2baa8c18d4637ef02822a0da6717408 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso) =3D 2b151a3cea8843d322c75ff76779ffcf > > > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-bootonly.iso) =3D 97800ec7d4b29927a8e66a2b53e987fb > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-disc1.iso) =3D 7d29cd9317997136507078971762a0d8 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-livefs.iso) =3D 6ff974e60a3964cf16fcec05925c14e9 > > > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-pc98-disc1.iso) =3D 40a3134cce89bd5f7033d8b9181edf91 > > > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) =3D > > 2f64974e9bd5adcf813f5d35ff742443 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-powerpc-disc1.iso) =3D > > b2562c38414ff4866f5ed8b3a38683c8 > > > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) =3D > > ae9610aeb1169d2cc649628606014441 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) =3D > > af21752630b13cf60c9498fbf7f793b6 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc2.iso) =3D > > 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 =20 > 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" --nextPart2366701.DakFbG5TGv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC19IJBylq0S4AzzwRAhnqAJsGLXPrmeAR9TPESWrUcpIp0zpIrACggCvL zNht9Pr7tbu5z+qosmhzYoU= =nY/P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2366701.DakFbG5TGv--
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