FreeBSD 6.1-RC1 Available

[Albert Shih]

 Le 13/04/2006 à 01:51:42-0600, Scott Long a écrit
> Announcement
> ------------
> 
> The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
> availability of FreeBSD 6.1-RC1.  It is meant to be a refinement of the 
> 6-STABLE, branch with few dramatic changes.  A lot of bugfixes have been 
> made, some drivers have been updated, and some areas have been tweaked 
> for better performance, etc. but no large changes have been made to the
> basic architecture.  This RC is late in coming due to many more bugs
> being fixed, as well as a keyboard multiplexer being added.  This is
> enabled by default via the 'kbdmux' driver and allows multiple keyboards
> of any type to be plugged in and work at once.  In turn, the boot menu
> option to handle USB keyboards specially has been removed as it is no
> longer needed.  This feature has been tested for several months, but
> more testing is always needed.
> 
> We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be
> identified and worked out.  Availability of ISO images is given below.
> If you have an older system you want to update using the normal
> CVS/cvsup source based upgrade the branch tag to use is RELENG_6_1. 
> Problem reports can be submitted using the send-pr(1) command.
> 
> The FreeBSD 5.5 release process is on hold while we put the final
> touches on 6.1.  It will resume within 1-2 weeks with a 5.5-RC1
> release.
> 
> The list of open issues and things still being worked on are on the
> todo list:
> 
> 
Hi all.

Lots of thanks for your work.

Just one question : You need some testing (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html)
for example I see (the first)

manual root mount lockmgr panics 	Needs testing 

but (maybe I'm little stupid), how can some standard users (like me) can we
perform this testing if we don't know how do that ?

I think it's great thing if (when it's possible of course) there some
advice to tell how can we make this testing.

Regards.

--
Albert SHIH
Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10
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