5.3 looks great!

[Nick Sayer]

I've installed RC2 on my desktop machine at work and it has solved a 
number of issues for me:

1. Heavily disk I/O bound processes tended to lock other processes out. 
Copying stuff to and from my iPod often made the X cursor freeze up for 
a few seconds. This doesn't happen any more.

2. The EHCI controller now actually works correctly. The aforementioned 
iPod now no longer needs firewire to work properly.

3. I've added LDAP NSS and PAM support via the ports. They both work 
flawlessly. Particularly cool is the 'compat' mode of NSS. This has 
allowed me to override the shell given by LDAP. Very cool.

In short, I'm very happy with the state of things. Outstanding work, 
everyone!