Star FreeBSD Announces 6.0-BETA4
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Sep 2005 09:16 UTC, submitted by Anon_Coward
FreeBSD "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4. ISO images are available for i386, amd64, pc98, alpha, powerpc, and ia64. Sparc64 is still in the process of being built and will be uploaded as soon as it is ready."
E-mail Print r 0   27 Comment(s) http://osne.ws/93m
Thread beginning with comment 28472
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
RE: Recommendation
by rycamor on Thu 8th Sep 2005 12:52 UTC in reply to "Recommendation"
rycamor
Member since:
2005-07-18

One of the great things about FreeBSD is that you can upgrade even across major version releases. If you want to install 5.4 for stability, and then migrate to 6.0, you can do so with cvsup ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.htm... ). After running cvsup, be sure to read /usr/src/UPDATING (for the kernel and userland) and /usr/ports/UPDATING (for the "ports" software tree).

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 3

RE[2]: Recommendation
by ariel on Thu 8th Sep 2005 13:04 in reply to "RE: Recommendation"
ariel Member since:
2005-07-06

Thats one thing that make FreeBSD one of the best operating system, you can move from a version to other without problems..

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 1

RE[2]: Recommendation
by bogomipz on Thu 8th Sep 2005 15:02 in reply to "RE: Recommendation"
bogomipz Member since:
2005-07-11

Since server-style stability isn't exactly my main concern on a laptop and I want updated software, I'll install this new BETA and know that upgrading to the actual release will be a piece of cake. Thanks alot for the responses.

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 2