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FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 realeased

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The third release candidate of FreeBSD 4.11 is now available.

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10 Comments

  1. 2005-01-17 3:36 pm
    Anonymous

    Hmmpp…funny! I have just cvsup-ed one box last Thu Jan 13 and it was already running FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE.

  2. 2005-01-17 3:44 pm
    Anonymous

    You’re talking about 4.11 the CVS branch, not 4.11 the release.

  3. 2005-01-17 4:39 pm
    Anonymous

    That’s pretty much all it is, right? Just updates and bug fixes. Or is there something new in this like more drivers for hardware? I really need to check out the release notes.

    The 4.X branch of FreeBSD has been my all time favorite, well next to the 2.2.8 version. The 4.X branch has been pretty damn stable. I had a 4.6.x box up running for the longest time until I finally figured to get the 5.X a try. I’m still getting used to it.

    I wonder if this will be the last release for the 4.X branch.

  4. 2005-01-17 6:55 pm
    Anonymous

    Yes, 4.11 is the last release of 4.X ;) In the future, only add to 4.x will be only bugfixes.

  5. 2005-01-17 7:44 pm
    Anonymous

    At work we’ve mostly migrated to FreeBSD 5.3 for our production systems (it works really well!), but it’s good to know the 4.x branch is still alive and maintained, since we can’t move every box immediately since it takes time to update our services. The FreeBSD Project seems to be handling this migration from 4.x to 5.x very carefully and with a lot of care: while 5.3 is a good release, they haven’t cut the 4.x users with longer upgrade cycles adrift, which for a volunteer development organization is really incredible. Would that some commercial software vendors did as well. From the security web page, it looks like 4.x will continue to be supported through 2007!

  6. 2005-01-17 9:34 pm
    Anonymous

    My only complaint is that after an upgrade to the base system, you have to reboot the system into single usermode to “make install world”. My FreeBSD boxes have to go down much more often than say my Debian machines where rebooting is very rarely necessary. Please don’t take this the wrong way though, I love FreeBSD, and prefer it to Linux in a number of circumstances. I’m just saying that’s a bit of an annoyance.

  7. 2005-01-17 9:57 pm
    Anonymous

    That’s because in *BSD the kernel and the (base) userland stay in sync this way. In Debian (or any Linux distro) you just throw some random version of glibc, init, etc etc ontop of some random version of the kernel. *BSD turns out more stable because of this.

  8. 2005-01-18 1:39 am
    Anonymous

    you do not have to boot into single user mode to install world

  9. 2005-01-18 2:13 am
    Anonymous

    That’s because in *BSD the kernel and the (base) userland stay in sync this way. In Debian (or any Linux distro) you just throw some random version of glibc, init, etc etc ontop of some random version of the kernel. *BSD turns out more stable because of this.

    You obviously don’t know how Debian works. Everything is packaged and tested together as a single product.

    *BSD does not turn out to be more stable because of that. If you think that is the case, you don’t know what you’re talking about.