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.”
I have two production servers that will finally be moving to the 6.x branch (from 5.5).
Great news, great work.
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.
Everytime a new FreeBSD release is out, the systems runs faster on the same hardware. That’s really good work. Thank you, FreeBSD developers!
as WINDOWS does …
Maybe now my crappy SigmaTel sound is supported.
Congrats to the FreeBSD developers.
Check out 7.0 for newer hardware support. There are new devices which aren’t backported to 6.3.
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.
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)
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.
FreeBSD keeps getting better and better each time. The updated “freebsd-update” tool looks very nice.
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. 🙂
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???
Why oh why they’re not using torrents???
Why oh why you’re not using mirrors???
Please read the release note. We DO have torrents:
http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/
We DO have torrents:
http://www.freebsd.org/where.html page where all downloads are listed?
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!
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!
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!
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.