FreeBSD 6.2 has been released to mirrors. The release notes for your specific platform are also available. "FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon64, and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development."
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i'm gonna upgrade my server soon with 6.2
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Another great polished FreeBSD release, good job.
If You want to THANK FreeBSD developers, donate some money to FreeBSD project:
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/
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in short words:
update base system sources to RELENG_6_2:
# cd /usr/src
# make update
rebuild world:
# cd /usr/src
# make buildworld
# make buildkernel
# make installkernel
# reboot
OK: boot -s
# cd /usr/src
# mergemaster -p
# make installworld
# mergemaster -Ui
# reboot
# cd /usr/src
# make delete-old
# make delete-old-libs
more detailed:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-e...
http://bsdforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45738
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I mostly used the make buildworld, buildkernel, ... and friends in the past... even sysinstall and upgrade with that, but now you can use a (different, not included in the -RELEASE) version of freebsd-update too, see:
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-11-26-freebsd-6.1-to-6.2-binar...
Works quite well :-) Also allows you to (binary)upgrade from 6.0 to 6.2 if you like.
It's a pity that it's not included in the release (would have been easier from 6.2 up). Colin built this thing with sponsoring from the community, last summer.
Edited 2007-01-14 20:19
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Here is what's new in 6.2 (http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/6-STABLE/relnotes/i386/new.html)
- new security event auditing system
- new platform: XBox
- new ipmi driver (Intelligent Platform Management Interface)
- new Gigabit Ethernet driver: Sundance/Tamarack TC9021
Pretty much everything else is either a bug fix or minor enhancement. I like FreeBSD, but I'm in no hurry to install 6.2.
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Hmm =) You SHOULD hurry for install when it's only about bug fixing and minor enhancements...
If you do hurry for major feature updates and all those nifty things that only got in main tree in last month, you end up seeing bugs and lack of features or some unwanted effect, obviously you never use OS for serving purpose.
But even without for serving purpose, bug fix release sounds like a great release to install fast without breaking your system but only makes it better. (as long as bug fixes don't actually make new bugs...)
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If you do hurry for major feature updates and all those nifty things that only got in main tree in last month, you end up seeing bugs and lack of features or some unwanted effect, obviously you never use OS for serving purpose.
But even without for serving purpose, bug fix release sounds like a great release to install fast without breaking your system but only makes it better.
Ahem. Sorry pal, but it seems that you are the one who lacks experience in running production servers.
Just because a new release fixes some bugs doesn't mean its a good idea to "install fast". *IF* the release specifically fixes some problem you've had with the system, then go ahead, upgrade away.
However, most servers should be already running a stable copy of the OS (if not, then why the heck are you running it?). It makes absolutely no sense to upgrade something that is not broken. The EOL on security updates for 6.1 is May 31, 2008, so why hurry?
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I had a quick look through the development lists and it appears that there is an individual who has ported the wpi driver accross from OpenBSD - so soon those of us with Intel 3945abg wireless cards will have wireless access :-)
My experience so far with 6.x has been very good - very stable, reliable - except once which was a issue with DRM, Ati and Xorg, which resulted in, when the Ati radeon driver was used, the whole machine locked up (changing consoles or restarting Xorg didn't work) - I hope they got that oversight corrected as it was a known issue.
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check that for more [if not all] info:
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome
for kde go here:
http://freebsd.kde.org
Edited 2007-01-14 22:20
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Vermaden sent you to the right place for more info.
My experience with Gnome is quite good (other than getting every Gnome application to work right with CUPS). HAL works well, though it is a bit fragile at the moment. If you have issues with installing it, there is a thread on the freebsd-gnome list that may help.
Also, HAL is not part of the base system as far as I know, so it is not directly a part of 6.2. I installed it as part of Gnome.
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The 6.2-RELEASE builds are currently being made. 6.2-RC2, which is essentially identical to -RELEASE, can be found at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/powerpc/ISO-IMAGES/6.2
I'd imagine that the release build will be up soon.
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yes there is:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/powerpc/ISO-IMAGES/6.2
nathanw: you was faster 
Edited 2007-01-14 22:22
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KDE+HAL work very well for me on FreeBSD 6.2 rc2. I quite like HAL because it makes it easy for users to mount devices. As for KDE not fixing bugs, I think you are totally wrong on this one. Read the KDE weekly commit digest for a feeling of how many people in the KDE team work on resolving bugs.
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The official torrent is here:
http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/
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A small assortment of tips for the occasional FreeBSD visitor (like me)
You will find a lot of older documentation and guides that tell you that you have to recompile the kernel in order to get some functionality e.g. dummynet for traffic shaping or pf for OpenBSD's firewall. You don't have to! Just kldload the appropriate module.
If you do recompile the kernel, the kernel configuration determines what is compiled *in* the kernel. All the other modules will be compiled as well! If you don't need all of them, you can specify which ones you want in make.conf
If you don't recompile the kernel, you get the benefit of binary updates to the kernel. Also works for "world"
To use CPU optimizations CPUTYPE? in make.conf is all you need. Don't bother with -O3 -fomit-frame-point -fxyzy - this isn't Gentoo and will probably break things
A bug in VMWare keeps the clock ticking at half the actual speed (the VM can't keep with the frequency of interrupts). This can be fixed by recompiling the kernel without ioapic and without SMP (if you know how to do it without recompiling the kernel I would be interested to know)
man is your friend. Even more so that Linux! (the pages are well written)
Happy hacking!
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