FreeBSD 6.3 Released

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Jan 2008 15:04 UTC, submitted by anonymous

You guessed it from the headline (bravo!): FreeBSD 6.3 has been released to the public (that's us). From the release notes: "Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after 6.2-RELEASE, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single change made to FreeBSD between releases; this document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements."

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Very excellent

by anomie (3.72) on Fri 18th Jan 2008 15:43 UTC

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I have two production servers that will finally be moving to the 6.x branch (from 5.5).

Great news, great work.

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RE: Very excellent

by Doc Pain (2.8) on Sun 20th Jan 2008 20:08 UTC in reply to "Very excellent"

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I have two production servers that will finally be moving to the 6.x branch (from 5.5).

I'll be doing the same thing to my 5.x systems soon, allthough I want to use 7.0-RELEASE if it's available. It's not that they won't work anymore (after having been in use for several years), but I want to experience the new possibilities that newer FreeBSD releases offer.

Great news, great work.

Everytime a new FreeBSD release is out, the systems runs faster on the same hardware. That's really good work. Thank you, FreeBSD developers!

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RE[2]: Very excellent (humor)

by arturo (1) on Mon 21st Jan 2008 20:56 UTC in reply to "RE: Very excellent"

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as WINDOWS does ...

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snd_hda

by kirihito (1.83) on Fri 18th Jan 2008 17:18 UTC

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Maybe now my crappy SigmaTel sound is supported.

Congrats to the FreeBSD developers.

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RE: snd_hda

by rhavenn (2.48) on Fri 18th Jan 2008 22:36 UTC in reply to "snd_hda"

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Check out 7.0 for newer hardware support. There are new devices which aren't backported to 6.3.

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RE: snd_hda

by kaiwai (4.08) on Sat 19th Jan 2008 03:08 UTC in reply to "snd_hda"

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Now, I know I'm being a little radical here, but maybe, just maybe, you could install OpenSound - I know, its a little surprising, but your sound card might be supported!

PS. note the sarcasm, it is directed at those who complain about 'sound support' on FreeBSD and yet people who can't be bothered installing OpenSound.

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upgrading

by sonic2000gr (3.44) on Fri 18th Jan 2008 17:22 UTC

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If you are running 6.2-RELEASE or one of the RCs, you may use these instructions:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-up...

for a painless binary upgrade.

(Note: if you are running 6.3-RC you already have the latest freebsd-update utility)

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Congratulations

by dark child (3.44) on Fri 18th Jan 2008 17:55 UTC

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Conratulations to the FreeBSD developers. I will definitely be installing this on one of my systems that currently does not have an OS. Can't wait for the release of FreeBSD 7.

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Keeps getting Better

by tuaris (2.45) on Fri 18th Jan 2008 18:08 UTC

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FreeBSD keeps getting better and better each time. The updated "freebsd-update" tool looks very nice.

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Yay!

by rcsteiner (2.92) on Fri 18th Jan 2008 19:15 UTC

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Time to install FreeBSD on my secondary fileserver to see how it does. I'm sure it'll be fine -- I've always liked FreeBSD, and some of my best friends use it. :-)

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Too busy

by Punktyras (3.92) on Fri 18th Jan 2008 19:34 UTC

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amd64 server is not working
Seamingly ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.3/ is too busy. Why oh why they're not using torrents???

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RE: Too busy

by antik (0.8) on Fri 18th Jan 2008 19:50 UTC in reply to "Too busy"

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Why oh why they're not using torrents???
Why oh why you're not using mirrors???

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RE: Too busy

by jkim (4) on Fri 18th Jan 2008 20:02 UTC in reply to "Too busy"

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amd64 server is not working

Seamingly ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.3/ is too busy. Why oh why they're not using torrents???

Please read the release note. We DO have torrents:

http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/

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RE[2]: Too busy

by Punktyras (3.92) on Fri 18th Jan 2008 20:33 UTC in reply to "RE: Too busy"

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We DO have torrents:
http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/

And why torrents are not mentioned on http://www.freebsd.org/where.html page where all downloads are listed?

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If you are wondering why all servers are busy

by Chezz (2.56) on Fri 18th Jan 2008 20:07 UTC

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Then you should wait for the official release statement. That's when all mirrors will be sync'd.

I am already enjoying 6.3 stability and performance using RELENG_6 branch Thanks to all FreeBSD devs!

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FreeBSD 6.3

by bradley (1.77) on Sat 19th Jan 2008 15:19 UTC

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I've been following FreeBSD 6.3 since the RC cycles and I'm very well please with this release... not one problem... not a one.

Thank you FreeBSD team!

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by netpython (2.52) on Sat 19th Jan 2008 16:45 UTC

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I missed gnome-session after the CD install.
To my suprise installing it was simply:" portupgrade -NRP gnome-session". Similar is the installation of the latest nvidia driver.

congrats!

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Production or legacy

by kill (1.52) on Mon 21st Jan 2008 02:54 UTC

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I'm still wondering when 7.0 comes out, will 7.0 become Production and 6.3 Legacy? I think I'll wait for 7.1, at least, for my production servers.

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