FreeBSD 5.2 released.

[Laukev7]

http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/01/12/1141201.shtml?tid=122&tid=185&tid=190

Yay! Can't wait to try it!

There hasn't been a press release on the official website yet, though.

[ January 12, 2004: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

[preacher]

Go FreeBSD!!!! At least Laukev7 and I can agree on one thing.

[Laukev7]

I thought you didn't like FreeBSD?

[WMD]

I heard that FreeBSD 5.0 was unstable...good, now people won't be stuck on 4.9.  

[preacher]

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
I thought you didn't like FreeBSD?

I love freebsd, use it on my 200mhz. I hate BeOS, but lets not start that again.

[Laukev7]

quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:


I love freebsd, use it on my 200mhz. I hate BeOS, but lets not start that again.

Fair enough. As for me, I'm not a fan of Linux, but I do like FreeBSD.

[Uipe]

FreeBSD 5.2 is out for about some time as it passed to stabel? or is it still just the current release?

[Laukev7]

Hmm, I tried to install 5.2, but so far it looks very buggy, at least the installer (never could finish the installation). First, when I put in the boot floppies, it shows all the commands like 'load -t mfsroot /mfsroot (before the system boots, I mean). Then, when I partition my hard drive, I get a message saying that the geometry was incorrectly detected (which didn't happen with FreeBSD 5.1 or 4.9). Then, after I manually set up the geometry of my hard drive (ad1), I got all kinds of errors during the installation, like 'Error on partition /: disk full'.

[ January 12, 2004: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

[Kintaro]

FreeBSD is leetz0r, i will try it when I can get my hands on it.

[Laukev7]

Crap. I finished installing it, and it fucked up my Windoze partition. What's worse, the X server doesn't even work! I've never had so many problems with FreeBSD before!

[preacher]

I haven't yet tried any of the 5.0 versions, in fact Im stil back at 4.7, but it works, and that is all I need.

[Laukev7]

Both 4.9 and 5.1 worked very well, and much better than 5.2. It's been like four times I've been trying to install 5.2 before I could even get it to work.

And since when are the apps installed with sysinstall in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin ??? WTF? Maybe my memory is failing, but I recall that mc (midc in the old versions) used to be in /usr/bin, not in /usr/local/bin.

Edit: Finished ranting. I'll STFU and wait for the STABLE release. But I'm so impatient, and the STABLE branch isn't going to be until the 5.3, which is in March!

[ January 13, 2004: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]