FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE

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Op de site FreeBSD.org is er nog niks over te vinden, maar op de FTP site is inmiddels de release van FreeBSD 4.6 te vinden.

Hier beneden vind je directe download links op ftp.freebsd.org, waarschijnlijk hebben alle mirrors nog niet de laatste versie (maar RC4), dus als deze links traag zijn kun je ook zoeken voor mirrors op de FreeBSD site.

De ISO images zijn dit keer gesplitst in 2 ISO bestanden, met enkel de 4.6-mini.iso (FreeBSD 4.6, zonder additionele software) en de 4.6-disc2.iso (additionele software op het moment vóór de ports-freeze).

edit:

Ik was te vroeg met mijn conclusies, er worden idd. 4 CD's uitgebracht. 4.6-mini.iso is niet disc 1, maar de iso versie zonder packages welke slechts 180MB groot is. Mensen die applicaties middels CVSup binnen trekken hebben voldoende aan de 4.6-mini.iso.

Ik ga 'em straks downen, fikken en installen. Ben benieuwd waar we bijna 2 weken langer op hebben moeten wachten.

Direct Download links: [ 4.6-mini.iso ] [ 4.6-disc2.iso ]

[LAN]

Voor nog een snelle link

4.6-mini.iso

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Ik heb 'em al gesubmit op de frontpage, misschien wordt er wel een frontpage artikel van gemaakt, i.p.v. een meukpost.

Ik weet nog niets van verbeteringen, nieuwe features en/of aanpassingen, heeft iemand informatie hieromtrent?

[MadCow*]

release notes van FreeBSD 4.6

ze wachten waarschijnlijk met officeel releasen tot ze dit lijstje hebben afgewerkt schedule van 4.6

[xoror]

er komen 5 isos
namelijk:

MD5 (4.6-disc1.iso) = f4be3e11bc7263b0ebe5a81f51f8f1ff
MD5 (4.6-disc2.iso) = be1f420dfe13f924b27d4b8b0b884c64
MD5 (4.6-disc3.iso) = 2a5792d1fa83585fc0eac6147cb8aa57
MD5 (4.6-disc4.iso) = f66d3a68101612097578bb6fd4ea3436
MD5 (4.6-mini.iso) = bbfceec7cf9a0259dba5550c94192cac

de mini iso is de iso ZONDER de packages.

de zooi wordt nu gemirrord.
dus duurt nog paar dagen voordat cd1,2,3,4 overal staan.

(en jah ze gaan waarschijnlijk cd1 als laatste rond sturen, want anders begint iedereen al te leechen).

[xoror]

http://www.tweakers.net/meuktracker/2188

CiPHER wist ons als eerste te melden dat er een nieuwe release is van FreeBSD. Op de FreeBSD.org site wordt er nog geen woord over gerept, maar op de FTP site zijn reeds de ISO-images te downloaden van de nieuw uitgekomen FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE. De aangeboden ISO-images bestaan uit twee discs, een 4.6-mini.iso met FreeBSD 4.6, en een 4.6-disc2.iso, waarop additionele software staat. Voor diegenen die CVSup gebruiken om de laatste versies van bekende software binnen te trekken volstaat de mini ISO, welke slechts 180MB groot is.
CD1 (ISO) is hier te downloaden en CD2 (ISO) is hier te downloaden

argh fbsd is 4 cds!!!

zucht ik zie dat de nieuwsposters ook geen moeite nemen om verhalen te verifieren.

zie ook: http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/02/06/10/222250.shtml?tid=122

[AVL]

Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:54:18 -0700
From: Murray Stokely <[e-mail]>
To: jason andrade <[e-mail]>
Cc: Murray Stokely <[e-mail]>, [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: Re: 4.6 Availability
Just as an update, I'm at the FreeBSd Developer Summit in Monterey
today and it looks like there was an error during the transfer of some
of the ISOs. disc2.iso is available, but the others failed. We won't
get the announcement out today..
- Murray

Ow, en ik vind dat er met de officiele release wel een frontpage-post moet komen.

[xoror]

ah dat verklaart waarom de rest van de cds er nog niet staan.

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Gisteren heeft dit heel eventjes op freshmeat.net gestaan. Na de refresh (elke 10 minuten) was ie weer weg. Dus het zal wel niet erg lang meer duren.

[xoror]

even geduld dus nog.

Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:38:54 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Bruce A. Mah)
To: "Brian J. McGovern" <[e-mail]>
Cc: [e-mail], Bo Xiao <[e-mail]>, [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: Re: 4.6 release and snapshots
.
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[knip]
.
Thanks. In this case, the problem is being able to get lots of bits
(the ISO images) from murray's workstation at home onto ftp-master.
He's kind of bandwidth-challenged, so the plan was to burn the data to
CDR for someone else to physically take to the co-lo facility where the
FreeBSD cluster sits, to upload there, while murray went down to USENIX.
Unfortunately, Murphy was hard at work the past 48 hours, and most of
the MD5 checksums of the CDRs failed (despite having two copies of each
ISO image). I imagine that murray is going to try this again.

I'm told that the FTP install directory arrived intact, as well as all
the packages.

Brian already knows this, but for the benefit of others: A FreeBSD
release isn't official until a PGP-signed announcement from one of the
release engineers is posted to freebsd-announce@. It is theoretically
possible (although extremely unlikely) that we might wipe outf all
4.6-related files and start over. So...I don't encourage using the 4.6
bits for any use other than testing, until a release announcement goes
out.

[xoror]

hij is officieel uit!

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I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE, the
very latest release on the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since
FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE in January 2002, we have made hundreds of fixes,
updated many system components, and addressed a wide variety of
security issues.

One of the most significant changes in FreeBSD 4.6 is the adoption of
XFree86 4.2.0 as the default version of the X Windows System. We
encourage users (particularly those upgrading from older installations
of XFree86) to consult the relevant section of the FreeBSD Handbook
for information on installing and configuring XFree86 4.2.0. This
information can be found on-line at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/x11.html

On systems with the doc distribution installed, it can also be found
at:

/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html

A number of enhancements to network device drivers have been made, as
well as updates to the ATA storage subsystem.

Some contributed programs have been updated, such as sendmail
(updated to 8.12.3) and the ISC DHCP client (updated to 3.0.1RC8).

For more information about the most significant changes with this
release of FreeBSD, please see the release notes:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.6R/relnotes.html

It is also useful to peruse the errata file, as it contains
late-breaking news about the release:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.6R/errata.html

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities
(including a schedule of upcoming releases), please see:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/


Availability
------------

FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and can
be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied
to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for the i386 are available
now. Final builds for the alpha architecture are in progress and will
be made available shortly.

We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO
images, but they will at least be available from:

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.lt.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/FreeBSD/

If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to
use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO
images, otherwise please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by
purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following
companies have contributed substantially to the development of
FreeBSD:

FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/
FreeBSD Services Ltd. http://www.freebsd-services.com/
Daemon News http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html

Each CD or DVD set contains the FreeBSD installation and application
package bits for the i386 ("PC") architecture. For a set of distfiles
used to build ports in the ports collection, please see the FreeBSD
Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no longer fit on the 4
CD set, or the DVD distribution from FreeBSD Services Ltd.

FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the
following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada,
China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lithuania,
the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi
Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Taiwan, Thailand, Trantor, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional
mirror(s) first by going to:

ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html

For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The
FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through
for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/install.html


Acknowledgments
---------------

Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to
finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.6, including
Compaq, Yahoo!, and The FreeBSD Mall.

In addition to myself, the release engineering team for 4.6-RELEASE
includes:

Murray Stokely <[e-mail]> : Release Engineering Lead, i386 Builds
Robert Watson <[e-mail]> : Release Engineering
John Baldwin <[e-mail]> : Release Engineering, alpha Builds
Brian Somers <[e-mail]> : Release Engineering
Steve Price <[e-mail]> : Package Splits
Will Andrews <[e-mail]> : Package Splits
Kris Kennaway <[e-mail]> : Package Building
David O'Brien <[e-mail]> : XFree86 Integration

Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went into
making this release. Many thanks are also due to the FreeBSD
committers <[e-mail]>, without whom there would be
nothing to release, and thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide who
have contributed bug fixes, features, and suggestions.

Enjoy!

Bruce A. Mah
(For the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team)



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