FreeBSD core team member Scott Long posted the latest bi-monthly status report, covering FreeBSD development for May and June of 2004. Scott begins: “May and June were yet again busy months; the Netperf project passed major milestones and can now be run with the debug.mpsafenet tunable turned on from sources in CVS. The ARM, MIPS, and PPC ports saw quite a bit of progress, as did several other SMPng and Netgraph projects. FreeBSD 5.3 is just around the corner, so don’t hesitate to grab a snapshot and test the progress!” Read the rest over at KernelTrap.
FreeBSD: May-June 2004 Status Report
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already i was using FreeBSD 4.5. and now i’m using FreeBSD 4.10 . and eagerly waiting for FreeBSD 5.3 for advanced feautures…. Keep it up, FreeBSD Team.
The latest i386 and amd64 aren’t available due to compiling problems at ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/
Although you can try and cvsup the latest -CURRENT and risk it.
Nice work with the new profile.sh, nice work with the altq&pf import, nice work with the bsd stack and smp giant ‘un’lock, and lovelly the pointer for the scanjet5 extended features running fbsd
5.3 will be such a milestone on the long history of fbsd. I must just admire the steady approach of this project, no ver numbers climbed up just for fuzz and marketoing.
But fbsd is a desktop OS too, and this is not the right place, but cant fbsd foundation give a push on the next release of nvidia drivers !? the old ones count more than 1 year already… lacking the support for the latest hardware.
Possible answering myself, maybe nvidia is waiting for 5-stable to get public, who knows?
There was some info on nVidia’s public foruns and FreeBSD mailing lists about new drivers. nVidia was waiting for a stabilization in 5.x’s threading system to launch such drivers.