As seen on BSDForums: “The FreeBSD-STABLE branch of the source tree has now been frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.6. This means that any new commits to the -stable source tree must be approved by the release engineering team first. The expected ship date for 4.6 is June 1 2002.”
FreeBSD-STABLE Branch Frozen for FreeBSD 4.6
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What? I thought that everybody was expecting 5.0 for autumn…
Uhm well, it’s all in the header
-STABLE goes -RELEASE approx. every 4 months
I hope to god it’s better than 4.5.
Whats wrong with 4.5??
I have succefully run it in a production enviroment, without any problems ever since it came out. I think that it is one of the most solid releases to date, and hopefully 4.6 will top that.
What was so bad about 4.5? Had less trouble with it than with different linux distros at that point in time.
Then again, I’m tracking -stable, so I don’t know if I ever had a system that was 4.5-release 🙂
What’s wrong with 4.5?
I am running,and have been running a 4.5-STABLE MAIL(IMAP & POP3, SMTP)/HTTP/SMB/FTP all in one server and it has given me no problems whatsoever.
> The expected ship date for 4.6 is June 1 2002
This means that 4.6-release will be actually available mid June or early July. I don’t think FreeBSD has ever releaesd on the deadline.
What’s wrong with 4.5?
I’m running it on my server, and it’s great. Far better than any Linux I’ve used and much faster.
There have been a few security issues, and they have been quickly patched.
what was wrong with 4.5? i’ve been running it since it was released without problems
How about putting XFree86 4.2 in for a change fer chrissake.
Well, duh. XFree is not in the base system (not even XFree 3.3.6). If you want XFree (either version 3 or 4) you go to the ports tree and get it. (Or get the pre-build packages if you’re unwilling to build from source). This has been the way to do it for quite some time.
You can also choose between KDE 2 or 3 that way.
You know the best part? You don’t have to fight the distro to NOT install something. (…mutters about Mandrake…)
FreeBSD 4.6 will ship with XFree86 4.2.
Other significant changes i’ve seen:
– new “modular” sendmail (8.12.2 or 8.12.3)
– new ATA subsystem
– emepheral port changes which should make FreeBSD perform better with networking benchmarks
After trying 5.0-current for a few months, I can’t go back to stable. Devfs is just too nice ;-D
The reason I ranted about the XF 4.2 being inlcuded was that when downloading and installing from scratch, it ALWAYS screws up the PS2 mouse! BSD tells me I should use /dev/sysmouse…..yeah right. It makes a spastic pointer that goes all over. Any ideas anyone?
Use /dev/sysmouse in XF86Config and make sure you have the following lines in rc.conf
moused_enable=”YES”
moused_port=”/dev/psm0″
moused_type=”auto”
that fixed the jittery pointer for me.