Scott Long recently posted this year’s first FreeBSD status report. The document begins with a quick look at the recently released FreeBSD 5.0, then looks to the future roadmap with the 5.1 maintenance release coming within a couple of months, and the stable 5.2 release by the end of the summer. Also mentioned is the upcoming 4-STABLE release, 4.8 (24th March), which includes XFree86 4.3 and support for HyperThreading. Read the detailed report at KernelTrap.
FreeBSD: January-February 2003 Status Report
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What’s the deal with KSE then? Is it going to be pulled out (I remember if it didn’t make too much progress they decided to pull it out of 5.x sometime ago) or not?
Will the latest KDE 3.1 be in the new releases?
I see also there is a PowerPC version being worked upon!
Erm… KDE 3.1 in the new releases? What are you talking about? (Isn’t in the Ports tree?)
— JAJ. Who are you talking too?
What’s the deal with KSE then? Is it going to be pulled out (I remember if it didn’t make too much progress they decided to pull it out of 5.x sometime ago) or not?
No word in this status report. I was somewhat disappointed too. 5.2 is the deadline for whether or not the reentrant C library’s threads implementation will include KSE support.
It would’ve been nice to see a status update one way or the other though…
Yes, if you look in the 4-CURRENT ports tree, kde 3.1 is there. The FreeBSD KDE project declared it a few months ago.
Are very disappointed at the progress of KSE and native posix threads. In terms of SMP, sure, that can wait and features can be gradually implemented and improved with each release, however, the current situation with KSE is terrible and worse still no one at FreeBSD HQ are willing to update their site? heck, just look at their FreeBSD 4.8 Schedule as one example.
As for what I am going to run, well, I have moved to Solaris 9 x86 which runs pretty good. Hopefully the FreeBSD community pull finger and start getting their behinds into gear.
you obviously don’t understand open source, because with your current attitude you’ll never be happy. if you had any fscking clue about this stuff you’d be perfectly happy with their progress.
solaris 9 is several generations more advanced in their smp implementation, so to compare the two is completely rediculous unless it is to prove that FreeBSD 5.0 is not ready for a production environment, and we all know that to be true already.
if you want freebsd.org to say what you want it to say then you *have* to get involved. otherwise it’s best to stick with your old buddy M$
I found this brief status report from mid-February: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=fa.po9pc4a.mki3hm%40ifi.ui… .
Anyone have any experience doing a binary upgrade between minor versions? I have 4.7, I’m wondering how much of a pain it is to install 4.8 doing a binary upgrade. I have a custom kernel, I don’t mind (at all) recompiling that, but how do binary package upgrades work (ie, XFree 4.x to XFree 4.[x+1])?