5.2.1 RC?

[DerAlSem]

Hello Nikolas,

Monday, February 16, 2004, 9:57:56 PM, you wrote:

NB> DerAlSem wrote:

>>Hello Nikolas,
>>
>>Monday, February 16, 2004, 8:55:55 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>NB> DerAlSem wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>>Hello freebsd-newbies,
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>
>>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.
>>
>>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?
>>
NB> not the man pages, read the following from the FreeBSD Handbook, after
NB> read you should be able to use CVSup, upgrade the whole system (tracking
NB> current or stable), install/upgrade ports, and install/update Kernels
NB> and no you don't have to know everything by heart, skim through all if
NB> it then bookmark/print/makenotes of the key info. Start with the ports
NB> system, then the kernel, and then building world.

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

>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
NB> Yes you can use it and it should work perfect for you, but the code is
NB> untested. So 4.9 is still recommended for mission critical deployments.

So, if i do not need "mission critical deployments" and want to be
most up to date, i can use latest "release" without any problems?

And i still do not understand. How can it be - "release" status, but
code untested?

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

And again - thanks for info.

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 DerAlSem                            mailto:DerAlSem at inbox.ru