FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

Fri Jul 15 15:11:15 GMT 2005

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 
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.
> > --
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> > unauthorised parties without the explicit permission of the author(s).
>
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