5.2.1 RC?

[Nikolas Britton]

DerAlSem wrote:

>Hello Nikolas,
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>Monday, February 16, 2004, 8:55:55 AM, you wrote:
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>NB> DerAlSem wrote:
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>>>Hello freebsd-newbies,
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>>> I want latest release of FreeBSD.
>>>  5.2.1-RC2-i386-disc1.iso - RC2 stands for Release Candidate 2? Does
>>>  anyone knows, when it'll become Master?
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>NB> FreeBSD 5.2.1 will be release in a week or two. 5.2.1 is being released
>NB> because of some bugs in 5.2 that went unnoticed. Because it's based on
>NB> 5.2 code and not the the current cvs head you should be able to safely
>NB> use the RC now and just CVSup to 5.2.1 when released.
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>Hm, i'n using 5.1 now... Just few net-servers (ftp,www,irc, and home
>NAT). And as a newbie, a don't know about CVS... man cvs, am i right?
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not the man pages, read the following from the FreeBSD Handbook, after 
read you should be able to use CVSup, upgrade the whole system (tracking 
current or stable), install/upgrade ports, and install/update Kernels 
and no you don't have to know everything by heart, skim through all if 
it then bookmark/print/makenotes of the key info. Start with the ports 
system, then the kernel, and then building world.

Appendix A.5 Using CVSup:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
Chapter 21 The Cutting Edge:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html
Chapter 9 Configuring the FreeBSD Kernels:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html
Chapter 4 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html

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>NB> BTW: FreeBSD 4.9 is the lastest "Production" Release. The 5.0, 5.1, and
>NB> 5.2.x releases are still considered beta.
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>But 5.0 and 5.1 and 5.2 as far as i know is in "RELEASE" status. I
>thought, it's mean, that i can use them, and they are free of bugs and
>security holes.
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Yes you can use it and it should work perfect for you, but the code is 
untested. So 4.9 is still recommended for mission critical deployments.

Read this, It explains a lot of thing about the *BSDs:
http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php

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>NB> More info why 5.2.1 was cut:
>NB> http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=18954
>NB> http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=18471
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>O, great thank for info!
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