Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...

[Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD]

Thanks for the reply Nikolas - that's helpful. I ended up upgrading my laptop to 6.1-PRERELEASE (from 6.0-RELEASE) anyway, and haven't had any problems since. After your feedback I'll probably do the desktop shortly.

The only thing that's holding me back from moving my home server from 5.3-RELEASE is that I've successfully got ndis working on it using the 'old' ndiscvt method and I'm a little reluctant to risk not being able to replicate my success with ndisgen under 6.x

Thanks again,


Peter Harrison 




>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nikolas Britton [mailto:nikolas.britton at gmail.com]
>Sent: 11 April 2006 12:06
>To: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...
>
>
>On 3/30/06, Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD 
><PETER.HARRISON at dwp.gsi.gov.uk> wrote:
>> I realise the answer to this question is "when it's ready", 
>but does anyone have a rough idea how close to being ready 6.1 is?
>>
>
>The 6.1 branch was cut on the 5th, this means you can cvsup to
>RELENG_6_1 branch and rebuild world to 6.1-RC. As for the release date
>of the official 6.1-RC1 builds... It should have happened yesterday,
>so expect it any time this week. 6.1-RELEASE should be released at the
>end of this month or the beginning of next month.... If you look at
>the schedule everything has been shifted out 1 month.
>
>If you want my opinion on 6.1, it's ready right now, I've been running
>a production server on 6.1 since BETA2, my main workstation at work
>since BETA4 and my main workstation at home has been running 6.1 since
>before BETA1 (tracking 6-STABLE). I've had no problems and feel that
>It's far superior to FreeBSD 5.x, It's also alot faster then 5.x. The
>more tester we have for the 6.1 release candidate runs the better
>6.1-RELEASE will be!
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributin
g/index.html


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