FreeBSD 6.0 has been released, but an official announcement is not yet available. You can download the .iso images here (mirror list). More information, documentation and release notes for the various architectures can be found here. Note: read this. Update: It’s official.
is it the final 6.0 release?
Its a “Production Release”.
Good good. finally released.
they should redesign their website. current one is so temporary, and not good at all. and the new logo is very very bad.
What are you talking about? They just redesigned the site a few days ago and it looks great. It’s not temporary…
i know it’s just been redesigned, but it is just not that good.
btw, if you click “Home” and then “Get FreeBSD”, you can actually see the top logo moves to the left. i don’t know if this happens to other people as well.
I believe the movement is caused by the scrollbar showing up on one page and not on the other.
yes i believe so
Yeahsssss!!! I love the new logo, btw.
Rally? I thought it looked like a red “Sonic the Hedgehog”…
-YoGiX
Are the horns retractable?
it can’t be seen, but it actually has a button on its rear.
Awesome news! I like their new logo, although I prefer it with a white background and black text/black logo (see the example that was provided). Something captivating about it
Congrats and here’s to the official release announcement!
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html
There seems to be a lot of stuff that’s not been done for the 6.0 release? Does that mean it’s an unstable release?
It’s not an unstable release, most the the not done on the todo list are features they wanted in 6 but didn’t make it. I’ve been running 6 since the early beta’s and it runs beautifully on my Nforce3 Ultra system. Hats off to the engineering team it’s a great release.
All show-stoppers have been corrected. The TODO-list is a bit outdated.
“All show-stoppers have been corrected. The TODO-list is a bit outdated.”
Glad to hear it.
does not with me.. in firefox
congrats to fbsd devs, commiters, and everyone that does really support and use this great piece of software
fbsd the only OS that matters
a button on the back ?
does it means they can be long hor.. ?
Yeeeees!
I read your excuses. If you really want to make it on time without being on your computer make some kind of program monitor the release channels (mailing-lists, webpage, news) and when it can match a suitable pattern that probably indicates release, make it post the release message to OSnews. YOU DO SERIOUS DAMAGE TO MANY PROJECTS BY ANNOUNCING RELEASES EARLY. Your actions direct the online community into secrecy, which is not right.
YOU DO SERIOUS DAMAGE TO MANY PROJECTS BY ANNOUNCING RELEASES EARLY.
And still we have never received a complaint from people who actually manage releases. Rendering your argument untrue, and plain lying. If I do “serious damage” to projects this way, then why hasn’t anyone from those projects ever complained? I’l tell you why, in your language:
THEY LIKE THE PUBLICITY.
Next.
and this is what a news site is about.
bring excitement to viewers. uncover the truth, foresee the future… blah blah
why hasn’t anyone from those projects ever complained?
Perhaps they’re concerned that you might take against them in your reporting? Or perhaps they’re just plain scared of Eugenia
?
“If I do “serious damage” to projects this way, then why hasn’t anyone from those projects ever complained?”
Because the don’t care about this shitty site?
Thom wrote:
>And still we have never received a complaint from people who actually manage releases. Rendering your argument untrue, and plain lying. If I do “serious damage” to projects this way, then why hasn’t anyone from those projects ever complained? I’l tell you why, in your language:
And I am absolutely agree with Thom.
>YOU DO SERIOUS DAMAGE TO MANY PROJECTS BY ANNOUNCING RELEASES EARLY.
I would call this FUD.
And in the worst of the cases you can always use bittorrent, as I am doing. Bittorrent files are in the official mirrors.
Just because:
1) No one ever complained, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t cause trouble.
2) What happens if its listed and there is a sudden recall because a last second bug showed up.
“untrue, and plain lying”
Is this an official editorial comment. How about growing up a little bit. Your childish rants and deleting of posts is obnoxious.
Is this an official editorial comment. How about growing up a little bit. Your childish rants and deleting of posts is obnoxious.
How about listening to the FreeBSD Release Engineer when he posts on here to say that “posting ahead of release” is OK? Just sayin….
How do you know he is the release engineer ?
I agree with him. (though “serious damages” might be different from project to project).
I’d prefer that OSNews played fair and waits for official release instead of sneaking as soon as possible. The more users OSNews has, the more responsible it must be.
Posting download links before hand is ok. If the project don’t want it to be publicly available they should not make download anonymously avail anyway.
However the excuse news poster use is extremely WEAK. Man… he can just schedule the post automatically.
this is a old news!this news has been puplished since yesterday in h***://www.bsdforums.org, but this news is not offical anf FreeBSD 6.0 not released offically!
have a nice day!
Is the ULE scheduler finished?
The ULE scheduler has been fixed on both HEAD and RELENG_6. More testing is needed.
>Is the ULE scheduler finished?
On my system it even beats the old scheduler
in terms of performance.
You should really give it a try…
> Is the ULE scheduler finished?
Yep, it is locked!
Show stopper defects for 6.0-RELEASE labelled as “Needs testing”
Under high packet delivery rates, if_em interfaces may wedge until reset. A patch believed to correct this and related problems has been committed to HEAD, RELENG_6, and RELENG_6_0, and now requires testing.
Hopefully they’ve just forgot to update the page, but if they’re shipping with an untested fix for a show stopper, they must be mad.
There have been complaints in the past.
If someone wanted to get funny about OS News publishing ahead of release, there’s more than a slew of terrorist related legislation in the pipeline across Europe and North America that could be thrown at them. Yes, OS News gets the cheap headline and a bit of attention for their ego, but this can be at the price of causing someone difficulty or serious disruption. People, often, don’t complain about a bully because they believe the illusion the bully wishes them to believe. All it takes is one mistake too many and that can change, and I don’t see OS News staff doing anything to generate sympathy for their cause. They won’t listen. People never do. It will end in tears. It always does.
no one gets seriosly damaged. simple as that. if it is not at the local mirror – so what. if something still changes then it’s your own fault for downloading it, as it is not officialy released.
It’s the way to go I’m grabbin an ISO now
You can do a ftp install too:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.0-RELEASE/
🙂
i`m upgrading from source.. was using BETA2
Yes, one guy down in India was unprepared for the onslaught of users wanting the new release TOO early. The network cable to his FTP mirror server was still DISCONNECTED after morning prayers and his entire appartment was FLOODED with DOWNLOAD REQUESTS! He died instantly.
I liked very much when I have jsut visited OSNEWS.COM and have seen this anouncement.
You did it with OO.org 2.0 and now with FreeBSD.
Some people seem to dislike this, but I love it.
The To Do page hasn’t been updated since 10/23 (check at the bottom), most of those issues have likely been long taken care of. That’s always been a rough draft of problems being worked on at the time of posting, don’t worry about it, not what the developers use (they use GNATS to do bug tracking). In short, don’t worry about it, old info and far from complete. I agree it would be nice if they would either take it down or redo how that info gets posted/updated, causes confusion and unnecessary worry.
They will often upload ISO’s a day or so before the actuall announcment. This delay between uploads and announcments is, I think, to give enough time for all the mirrors to get synced up before they turn loose the deluge of initial downloads that follows the actual announcement. If they follow the usual pattern, since they posted the ISO’s yesterday afternoon, I’d expect the offical announcement to come out sometime later today.
FYI, here’s what looks to be the release announcment:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/relnotes-i386.html
Here is the i386 readme:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/readme.html
Here is the errata notes:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/errata.html
Here is the hardware list:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html
others available
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-amd64.html
If your hardware isn’t listed, they will not care much and your results will vary 😉 FreeBSD is oriented more towards small common servers (changing though) than trying to take over the desktop market from Redmond…keep this in mind = save yourself a lot of grief. There is a lot of hardware out there they do not care about as it’s so poorly designed the best drivers are not going to make it stable. For those coming from the Linux world, this can be hard to grasp, grin.
Download if you wish. Enjoy, so far looks to NOT be the typical mess of a x.0 release, not perfect, but looks pretty polished from a server side of things. Don’t fuss about things you aren’t willing to help fix…they don’t care. Don’t like it, don’t use it, grin.
Can’t wait to see how well they polish up the upcoming 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 releases if 6.0 is already looking this good. Hat’s off the the developers.
JT
“FYI, here’s what looks to be the release announcment:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/relnotes-i386.html ”
Okay, maybe that’s not the real rel’ announcment per se, but it answered all my questions (and more).
The “press release” style announcment should be out before long, probably later today…for what it’s worth.
Lot’s of goodies can be found here:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/
Good deal on the torrents. Now if we can just con them into an all-in-one DVD ISO, grin.
JT
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/announce.html
Have fun!
JT
Would this make a good desktop OS compared to Windows XP?
As always, the answer is it depends. What do you want to do with your desktop? Do you want to play the latest games, have hi-def audio and do video editing? Then the answer is no.
However, if you are just doing document processing, writing emails, and surfing the net then FreeBSD would make a fine desktop. I would even recommend looking at PC-BSD or Desktop BSD (FreeBSD based distributions) that come bundled with most of the stuff you’d want.
Is SMP enabled in the default kernel or do we need to recompile the kernel for that?
You have to recompile the kernel with SMP option added to the config.
Yeah, me.
Several years ago, we did get uptight about news sites covering releases before they were officially announced. Part of this was wanting the vanity of making the big splash ourselves, but part of it was legitimate concern over giving the mirror sites enough time to sync their bits and be prepared. We played with tricks like pushing the bits out in unreadable directories and then getting the mirror admins to ‘unamsk’ them once everyone was ready, but that quickly turned into a huge coordination nightmare.
So, we finally realized how silly all the secrecy was. Why chastise people for being excited for the release? It’s certainly not productive to chase away people who are obviously enthusiastic about FreeBSD. So, we adopted a new policy of being more laid back about it, pushing the bits out through multiple channels, making Bittorrent trackers available, etc, but still not announcing until the mirror sites were ready. This results in the bits being visible “early” to people who know where to look, but that’s OK. We want people to use FreeBSD, and we are thrilled that there are people excited enough about it that they will poll the websites in anticipation.
So, kudos to the users who like the release, and many thanks to the website editors who support us by giving us space on their websites for the announcements.
It’s great to see this release finally make it. Even though 6.0 is mostly a more stable 5.x series, they have made an incredible amount of progress from the 4.0 series.
Personally, I’ve been using the ULE since early on in the Beta process and never seen any problems whatsoever.
With the hardware that I’ve got, the system has been rock-solid and has been a really reliable desktop OS for me, my girlfriend and even my roommate is using it once in a while too. (My freeBSD workstation is in the living room)
I have to send a major kudos to the devs for the obviously hard work they’ve put into it.
I’ve also got to say to people that are worried, that it is really stable and is worth the jump, especially if you were already running the 5.x series. Just make sure to read the docs for upgrading becuase there are a few small changes (i think that the kernel config is a bit different for 6).
Thanks guys.
I like the new web site layout.
I have also had problems when my hamster powerd server ran out of fresh hamster due the news being put on osnews instead of news papers deliverd by donkies.
Does anyone know if this release will put my laptop into standby mode when I close the lid?
I know standby does work for some people, I haven’t really messed with it on my systems, I often close the lid while the system is doing something like recompiling world, so I want it awake.
My guess is that you will have to do some digging to get your specific setup working the way you want it to.
Can anyone explain how the upgrade is done ? Is there a simple command like in a Debian distro ? (apt-get update && apt-get upgrade-distro and will upgrade the whole system). Thanks
Remember that the BSDs are whole systems. The base system is worked on as a consistent entity by the relevant BSD team. Extra software is available through ports (or packages).
On FreeBSD, to update the ports/packages, just cvsup [options] && portupdate [options].
To update the base system via source, the process is a tad longer, but you can drop it all into one simple script and run it from there:
cvsup [options]
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
reboot [into single user mode]
mergemaster -p
make installworld
mergemaster
reboot
Binary updates of the base system are not supported except through the installation media.
OK, thanks for your explanation. I’m currently running Ubuntu as my primary system, pleased with it, but anyway I plan to give FreeBSD a try as I consider it as an amazing OS.
thanks for 6. been waiting for it