OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19181/FreeBSD_6_3_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:01:33 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Very excellent http://osnews.com/thread?296729 http://osnews.com/thread?296729 I have two production servers that will finally be moving to the 6.x branch (from 5.5).

Great news, great work. Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (anomie) Comments snd_hda http://osnews.com/thread?296756 http://osnews.com/thread?296756 Maybe now my crappy SigmaTel sound is supported.

Congrats to the FreeBSD developers. Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kirihito) Comments upgrading http://osnews.com/thread?296757 http://osnews.com/thread?296757 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) Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sonic2000gr) Comments Congratulations http://osnews.com/thread?296777 http://osnews.com/thread?296777 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. Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dark child) Comments Keeps getting Better http://osnews.com/thread?296779 http://osnews.com/thread?296779 FreeBSD keeps getting better and better each time. The updated "freebsd-update" tool looks very nice. Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tuaris) Comments Yay! http://osnews.com/thread?296788 http://osnews.com/thread?296788 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. :-) Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rcsteiner) Comments Too busy http://osnews.com/thread?296791 http://osnews.com/thread?296791 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??? Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Punktyras) Comments RE: Too busy http://osnews.com/thread?296792 http://osnews.com/thread?296792 Why oh why they're not using torrents???
Why oh why you're not using mirrors??? Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (antik) Comments RE: Too busy http://osnews.com/thread?296795 http://osnews.com/thread?296795
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/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jkim) Comments If you are wondering why all servers are busy http://osnews.com/thread?296796 http://osnews.com/thread?296796 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! Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Chezz) Comments RE[2]: Too busy http://osnews.com/thread?296798 http://osnews.com/thread?296798 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? Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Punktyras) Comments RE: snd_hda http://osnews.com/thread?296810 http://osnews.com/thread?296810 Check out 7.0 for newer hardware support. There are new devices which aren't backported to 6.3. Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rhavenn) Comments RE: snd_hda http://osnews.com/thread?296840 http://osnews.com/thread?296840 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. Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai) Comments FreeBSD 6.3 http://osnews.com/thread?296883 http://osnews.com/thread?296883 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! Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bradley) Comments re http://osnews.com/thread?296888 http://osnews.com/thread?296888 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! Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments RE: Very excellent http://osnews.com/thread?296988 http://osnews.com/thread?296988
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! Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Doc Pain) Comments Production or legacy http://osnews.com/thread?297021 http://osnews.com/thread?297021 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. Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kill) Comments RE[2]: Very excellent (humor) http://osnews.com/thread?297058 http://osnews.com/thread?297058 as WINDOWS does ... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (arturo) Comments