FreeBSD Release Engineering team’s Murray Stokely announces that FreeBSD 4.7-RC3 (i386) is now available for FTP network installs. This includes the recent LDT patch and the final package set that will be used on the CDROMs/DVDs. Read the announcement at BSDForums.
FreeBSD 4.7-RC3 Final Release Candidate Available
About The Author
Eugenia Loli
Ex-programmer, ex-editor in chief at OSNews.com, now a visual artist/filmmaker.
Follow me on Twitter @EugeniaLoli
I’ll catch it this weekend in my weekly buildworld. 🙂
The excitement is just building with the force of a fusion bomb…..:)
I’m glad that the issues relating to the compression format for packages must now have been (temporarily) resolved.
If I understand correctly, this will also be the first FreeBSD release to feature KDE 3 and GNOME 2 together. I look forward to it.
I was also amazed by how many decent packages made it onto the first CD in 4.6, and look forward to being able to get a whole operating environment on one disk again (compared with some Linux distributions that seem to have ever-increasing disk space requirements).
Thanks and congratulations to all involved in the development of FreeBSD.
Just when I’d installed RC2 on my laptop. 🙂 No, I’m not going to do a ‘buildworld’ in the weekend, it’s a Pentium Classic 133 MHz with 40 MB RAM. FreeBSD runs very well on it – a bit better than both Slackware and Debian: I could even run Gnome2 on it (although I don’t, WindowMaker alone is better on such a slow beast).
I think I will recommend FreeBSD on such old hardware, even for those of us who prefer GNU userspace (like myself).