"This report covers the last quarter of a exciting year 2006 for FreeBSD development. FreeBSD 6.2 is finally out of the door and work towards FreeBSD 7.0 is gearing up." This report includes detailed information about (among others) ZFS, iSCSI, ARM, a new USB stack, Network Stack Virtualization, Wireless networking, and Sound Subsystem improvements.
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Member since:2005-07-08
I don't think freebsd 6.3 will be using Xorg 7.2, because freebsd 7 current is still using Xorg 6.9. Xorg 7.2 might appear in late freebsd 7 releses or maybe until freebsd 8. but since freebsd 5.5 eoL is not until next year and it also uses Xorg 6.9 and the nvidia driver works great and also uses UFS2 ,etc. I still won't upgrade to a freebsd 6 release.
Work is very far underway with Xorg 7.2. There is a separate ports tree that contains Xorg 7.2.0 RC3, and upgrading from 6.9 is nearly flawless. It will only be a short while till this is made available in the regular ports tree, I'm sure.
As for the nVidia driver. You are correct. The driver works great, even on -CURRENT (which I'm currently using).
Adam
Member since:2005-09-10
I'm using xorg 7.2 on freenbsd 6.2 right now, with all the beryl goodies you'd want 
Screenies:
ftp://hatvani.unideb.hu/personal/screenshots/beryl/watereffect1.pn...
ftp://hatvani.unideb.hu/personal/screenshots/beryl/cube1.png
Member since:2006-01-01
Member since:2005-07-11
You do realise that Xorg is a port, part of the ports tree, and is not part of any FreeBSD release? Right?
You do realise that you can run any version of Xorg on (just about) any version of FreeBSD? For instance, you can run Xorg 6.9 on FreeBSD 4.11, 5.3-5.5, 6.0-6.2, and 7-CURRENT?
And you do realise that once Xorg 7.x hits the ports tree, you'll be able to run it on (just about) any version of FreeBSD (so long as there aren't version checks in the port Makefile, of course), simply by updating the ports tree and installing from there?
This is not Linux. The FreeBSD OS is released separately from the apps that run on that OS. And there is only 1 ports tree; every version of FreeBSD out there uses the same ports tree.
If you want new apps, you don't need to update the OS. Just update the ports tree and install the new apps. Such a nicer setup than a Linux distro where you have to wait for the next release to get the new versions of apps.
Edited 2007-01-18 23:28
Member since:2006-01-01
It's obvious pepole can upgrade, installed apps to their os What i was refering was that the next release of freebsd, might still come with Xorg 6.9 installed by default,because they have been releasing freebsd with xorg 6.9 for some time. I use OpenBSD not linux
and openbsd does not show an Xorg port under the ports tree unless I'm not looking in the right area, and I'm not going to try to compile xorg 7.2, it will take days or even weeks in my system.
Member since:
2006-01-01
/*hopefully Nvidia will pull finger and update their driver for FreeBSD rather than being still suck in the 5.x stone age - lets also hope that Xorg modular will be ready by the time 6.3 is released so that we can experience some 7.2 goodness :-) */
I don't think freebsd 6.3 will be using Xorg 7.2, because freebsd 7 current is still using Xorg 6.9. Xorg 7.2 might appear in late freebsd 7 releses or maybe until freebsd 8. but since freebsd 5.5 eoL is not until next year and it also uses Xorg 6.9 and the nvidia driver works great and also uses UFS2 ,etc. I still won't upgrade to a freebsd 6 release.
Edited 2007-01-18 05:30