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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Apr 2006 17:52 UTC

FreeBSD 6.1-RC1 has been released. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-RC1. It is meant to be a refinement of the 6-STABLE, branch with few dramatic changes. A lot of bugfixes have been made, some drivers have been updated, and some areas have been tweaked for better performance, etc., but no large changes have been made to the basic architecture."

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This is inspiring

by evilmegaman on Thu 13th Apr 2006 19:02 UTC

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2005-09-20

I have been inspired to install freebsd again. I will install the current stable (6.0), I just need to have good luck this time. I can never seem to get freebsd to work properly. But I have faith this time. sounds like a nice project.

And on the subject of 6.1, What are the dramatic changes?

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RE: This is inspiring

by fak3r on Thu 13th Apr 2006 19:09 in reply to "This is inspiring"

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2006-04-12

I just need to have good luck this time. I can never seem to get freebsd to work properly.
How so? If you have had issues before, I recommend following the handbook on your next install; it some of the best open source documentation I've ever seen:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

And on the subject of 6.1, What are the dramatic changes?
Certainly not as much from 5.5 -> 6.0, but still worthwhile. Full list here, scroll to the bottom for ones in 'testing' that have been addressed:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html

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RE: This is inspiring

by Carnevill on Thu 13th Apr 2006 19:11 in reply to "This is inspiring"

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2006-01-18

I think the most dramatic change is the keyboard multiplexer. Beyond that most of the changes are just bug fixes and driver updates.

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RE: This is inspiring

by Bado on Thu 13th Apr 2006 19:12 in reply to "This is inspiring"

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2005-07-06

I've been running 6.1 for a few weeks (since pre-release). It's been running fantastic.

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RE[2]: This is inspiring

by bretthoerner on Thu 13th Apr 2006 19:24 in reply to "RE: This is inspiring"

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2005-06-29

Question from someone who hasn't done any FreeBSD major updates...

If I install FreeBSD 6.1-rc1 today, can I seemlessly upgrade to 6.1-stable when it is released? I would imagine so, but I just wanted to make sure... some Linux distros don't support anything but a fresh install of stable releases.

(This will be on a home 'server' so there isn't really anything mission critical about it - just laziness)

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