Scott Long has released the latest FreeBSD Project status report, describing technical and documentation activities of the FreeBSD Project over the last six months.The report covers activities from release engineering (and 5.3-RELEASE), to secure binary updates, to low level kernel support for interrupt routing, network stack locking, and a broad range of network feature and optimization development, not to mention ongoing work on the ports tree and packages such as OpenOffice. There are 44 separate submissions, ranging from personal projects to team efforts.
The reports were voluntarily submitted by developers and other team members for the projects they were working on, so doesn’t cover everything that has happened, but the submissions help to illustrate the high level of effort going into FreeBSD each day. Look for another report next quarter covering the work on 4.11-RELEASE and 5.4-RELEASE, as well as ongoing work on 6.x!
6.0-RELEASE in August of 2005. Woohoo. Was that a typo?
No, that wasn’t a typo. I’ll have a long-term schedule published ‘soon’.
Scott
…a shorter release cycle in practice. It will be nice to see RELENG_6 in June, if that deadline is made.
That was a long and very good read. Also, the freebsd.org looks much better now!
Keep up the good work folks! FreeBSD is by far the most enjoyable OS out there (I’m just a hobbyist, who kept switching from dirtro to distro until I found FreeBSD).
Yes! The longest report I’ve read so far.
Bravo all FreeBSD developers and users
Yes, I very much welcome the shorter (than 5.3) and predictable release cycle now in use. Quoting Scott: “we hope to lessen the problem of needed features not reaching users in a reasonable time, as happened too often with 5.x”
I only wish I had more time to get my C out of the closet and contribute somehow
I wholeheartedly agree. I’m running -STABLE and looking with envy at -CURRENT for all the great features/fixes coming in.
“The ATA driver is undergoing quite a few important changes, mainly it is being converted into modules so it can be loaded/unloaded at will, and just the pieces for wanted functionality need be present.”
“There is also support coming for a few new chipsets as usual.”
Ahh…. I have to know which new chipsets are getting into current and hopefully backported to 5.x?
Anyone know? Chipsets? As well as potentially being back ported?
Major KUDOS to the FreeBSD team. I have been a user since 4.6R (or 4.5R). And darn proud of it!!!
I was bored and figured that I should try installing this FreeBSD thing that was supposed to be so very good.
Didn’t like the installer but I managed to get it installed with some basic packages. No idea what CD 2 was for, it never asked for it.
Then I wanted to update the ports. With portupgrade (life is too short to do it manually). It ran for some minutes then it dumped core. Tried it some more but it just kept crashing. pkgdb -F didn’t work either. I considered it to be a broken product and gave up. The end.
With portupgrade (life is too short to do it manually). It ran for some minutes then it dumped core. Tried it some more but it just kept crashing. pkgdb -F didn’t work either.
I ran into that as well. Forgot to read /usr/ports/UPDATING where it reads:
– Suggest that sysutils/portupgrade should be upgraded prior to lang/ruby18.
But then again, the document really starts with:
This file documents some of the problems you may encounter when upgrading your ports. We try our best to minimize these disruptions, but sometimes they are unavoidable.
You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/UPDATING?rev=1.120&cont…
To bad anon got bit by the portupgrade bug. I hope that they give FreeBSD another chance sometime. Granted, it took a while to get my brain wrapped around it but I really, really like FBSD. I’ve got 4.1x and 5.3 production boxes running merrily along.
In fact, my 16yr old daughter runs 5.3 as her OS with KDE. She is pleased as punch with OOo, Gaim, FF and GPhoto. I am ecstatic because I don’t need to uninstall ad/spyware and clean virii on that machine. Not that a linux dist wouldn’t have worked as well for her, but I wanted to see if she would be happy with a FreeBSD desktop. In fact, she was using Freesbie 1.1 on one of my older laptops in the kitchen the other night and commented on XFCE being something she’d like to try on her machine.
Anywho, Way to go Team FreeBSD.