Announcement ------------ The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 branch than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from FreeBSD 4. Much of the work that has gone into 6.0 development has focused on polishing and improving the work from 5.x These changes include streamlining direct device access in the kernel, providing a multi-threaded SMP-safe UFS/VFS filesystem layer, implementing WPA and Host-AP 802.11 features, as well as countless bugfixes and device driver improvements. Major updates and improvements have been made to ACPI power and thermal management, ATA, and many aspects of the network infrastructure. 32bit application support for AMD64 is also greatly improved, as is compatiblity with certain Athlon64 motherboards. This release is also the first to feature experimental PowerPC support for the Macintosh G3 and G4 platforms. This BETA1 release is in the same basic format as the Monthly Snapshots. For most of the architectures only the ISO images are available though the FTP install tree is available for a couple of the architectures. 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 (though that will change for the Release Candidates later). Problem reports can be submitted using the send-pr(1) command. The list of open issues and things still being worked on are on the todo list: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html Since this is the first release of a new branch we only have a rough idea for some of the dates. The current rough schedule is available but most dates are still listed as "TBD - To Be Determined": http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/schedule.html Known Issues ------------ For the PowerPC architecture /etc/fstab isn't written out properly, so the first boot throws you into the mountroot> prompt. You will need to manually enter where the root partition is and fix /etc/fstab. Also the GEM driver is listed as 'unknown' in the network config dialog. For all architectures a kernel rebuild might be needed to get some FreeBSD 5 applications to run. Add "options COMPAT_FREEBSD5" to the kernel configuration file if you have problems with FreeBSD 5 executables. Availability ------------ The BETA1 ISOs and FTP support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites. A list of the mirror sites is available here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html The MD5s are: MD5 (6.0-BETA1-alpha-bootonly.iso) = eabda0a086e5492fe43626ce5be1d7e1 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-alpha-disc1.iso) = d7fe900bb3d5f259cc3cc565c4f303e4 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 9b04cb2f68300071c717f4aa4220bdac MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) = cb0f21feaf8b7dd9621f82a8157f6ed8 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-disc2.iso) = 84d40bc291a9ed5cd69dfa717445eeb5 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) = 38e0b202ee7d279bae002b883f7074ec MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) = b2baa8c18d4637ef02822a0da6717408 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso) = 2b151a3cea8843d322c75ff76779ffcf MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 97800ec7d4b29927a8e66a2b53e987fb MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-disc1.iso) = 7d29cd9317997136507078971762a0d8 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-livefs.iso) = 6ff974e60a3964cf16fcec05925c14e9 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-pc98-disc1.iso) = 40a3134cce89bd5f7033d8b9181edf91 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = 2f64974e9bd5adcf813f5d35ff742443 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-powerpc-disc1.iso) = b2562c38414ff4866f5ed8b3a38683c8 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = ae9610aeb1169d2cc649628606014441 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = af21752630b13cf60c9498fbf7f793b6 MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 3241af814bfe93a97707c7a964c57718 Thanks to Ken Smith, Marcel Moolenaar, Wilko Bulte, and Takahashi Yoshihiro, and Peter Grehan for doing the sparc64, ia64, alpha, pc98, and ppc builds, respectively. Thanks also to Ken Smith for his help on writing much of this announcement.
And, for "the stupid question of the day" ... how long before 5.x is no longer supported? I'm just about to deploy a new server, and was *going* to go with 5.x, but would I be better just skipping 5.x altogether? Or are there such drastic changes in 6.x that doing so at this time wouldn't be prudent? On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Scott Long wrote:> Announcement > ------------ > > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the > availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the > FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. > > FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 branch > than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from FreeBSD 4. Much of the work that has > gone into 6.0 development has focused on polishing and improving the > work from 5.x These changes include streamlining direct device access > in the kernel, providing a multi-threaded SMP-safe UFS/VFS filesystem > layer, implementing WPA and Host-AP 802.11 features, as well as > countless bugfixes and device driver improvements. Major updates and > improvements have been made to ACPI power and thermal management, ATA, > and many aspects of the network infrastructure. 32bit application > support for AMD64 is also greatly improved, as is compatiblity with > certain Athlon64 motherboards. This release is also the first to > feature experimental PowerPC support for the Macintosh G3 and G4 > platforms. > > This BETA1 release is in the same basic format as the Monthly Snapshots. > For most of the architectures only the ISO images are available though > the FTP install tree is available for a couple of the architectures. > > 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 (though that will change for the > Release Candidates later). Problem reports can be submitted using the > send-pr(1) command. > > The list of open issues and things still being worked on are on the > todo list: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html > > Since this is the first release of a new branch we only have a rough > idea for some of the dates. The current rough schedule is available > but most dates are still listed as "TBD - To Be Determined": > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/schedule.html > > Known Issues > ------------ > > For the PowerPC architecture /etc/fstab isn't written out properly, so > the first boot throws you into the mountroot> prompt. You will need > to manually enter where the root partition is and fix /etc/fstab. Also > the GEM driver is listed as 'unknown' in the network config dialog. > > For all architectures a kernel rebuild might be needed to get some > FreeBSD 5 applications to run. Add "options COMPAT_FREEBSD5" to the > kernel configuration file if you have problems with FreeBSD 5 executables. > > > Availability > ------------ > > The BETA1 ISOs and FTP support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror > sites. A list of the mirror sites is available here: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html > > The MD5s are: > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-alpha-bootonly.iso) = eabda0a086e5492fe43626ce5be1d7e1 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-alpha-disc1.iso) = d7fe900bb3d5f259cc3cc565c4f303e4 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 9b04cb2f68300071c717f4aa4220bdac > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) = cb0f21feaf8b7dd9621f82a8157f6ed8 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-disc2.iso) = 84d40bc291a9ed5cd69dfa717445eeb5 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) = 38e0b202ee7d279bae002b883f7074ec > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) = b2baa8c18d4637ef02822a0da6717408 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso) = 2b151a3cea8843d322c75ff76779ffcf > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 97800ec7d4b29927a8e66a2b53e987fb > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-disc1.iso) = 7d29cd9317997136507078971762a0d8 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-livefs.iso) = 6ff974e60a3964cf16fcec05925c14e9 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-pc98-disc1.iso) = 40a3134cce89bd5f7033d8b9181edf91 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = 2f64974e9bd5adcf813f5d35ff742443 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-powerpc-disc1.iso) = b2562c38414ff4866f5ed8b3a38683c8 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = ae9610aeb1169d2cc649628606014441 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = af21752630b13cf60c9498fbf7f793b6 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 3241af814bfe93a97707c7a964c57718 > > > Thanks to Ken Smith, Marcel Moolenaar, Wilko Bulte, and Takahashi > Yoshihiro, and Peter Grehan for doing the sparc64, ia64, alpha, pc98, > and ppc builds, respectively. Thanks also to Ken Smith for his help on > writing much of this announcement. > -- > This mail is for the internal use of the FreeBSD project committers, > and as such is private. This mail may not be published or forwarded > outside the FreeBSD committers' group or disclosed to other unauthorised > parties without the explicit permission of the author(s). > >---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
I was looking for a place to download 6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso to test om my PowerMac G4. But I cannot find it on any of the ftp- sites og mirrors. Where can I download it? Sincerely, ?ystein Holmen Den 15. jul. 2005 kl. 12:56 skrev Scott Long:> Announcement > ------------ > > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the > availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the > FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. > > FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 > branch > than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from FreeBSD 4. Much of the work > that has > gone into 6.0 development has focused on polishing and improving the > work from 5.x These changes include streamlining direct device access > in the kernel, providing a multi-threaded SMP-safe UFS/VFS filesystem > layer, implementing WPA and Host-AP 802.11 features, as well as > countless bugfixes and device driver improvements. Major updates and > improvements have been made to ACPI power and thermal management, ATA, > and many aspects of the network infrastructure. 32bit application > support for AMD64 is also greatly improved, as is compatiblity with > certain Athlon64 motherboards. This release is also the first to > feature experimental PowerPC support for the Macintosh G3 and G4 > platforms. > > This BETA1 release is in the same basic format as the Monthly > Snapshots. > For most of the architectures only the ISO images are available though > the FTP install tree is available for a couple of the architectures. > > 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 (though that will change for the Release Candidates > later). Problem reports can be submitted using the send-pr(1) > command. > > The list of open issues and things still being worked on are on the > todo list: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html > > Since this is the first release of a new branch we only have a rough > idea for some of the dates. The current rough schedule is available > but most dates are still listed as "TBD - To Be Determined": > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/schedule.html > > Known Issues > ------------ > > For the PowerPC architecture /etc/fstab isn't written out properly, so > the first boot throws you into the mountroot> prompt. You will need > to manually enter where the root partition is and fix /etc/fstab. > Also > the GEM driver is listed as 'unknown' in the network config dialog. > > For all architectures a kernel rebuild might be needed to get some > FreeBSD 5 applications to run. Add "options COMPAT_FREEBSD5" to the > kernel configuration file if you have problems with FreeBSD 5 > executables. > > > Availability > ------------ > > The BETA1 ISOs and FTP support are available on most of the FreeBSD > Mirror sites. A list of the mirror sites is available here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors- > ftp.html > > The MD5s are: > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-alpha-bootonly.iso) = eabda0a086e5492fe43626ce5be1d7e1 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-alpha-disc1.iso) = d7fe900bb3d5f259cc3cc565c4f303e4 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 9b04cb2f68300071c717f4aa4220bdac > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) = cb0f21feaf8b7dd9621f82a8157f6ed8 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-disc2.iso) = 84d40bc291a9ed5cd69dfa717445eeb5 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) = 38e0b202ee7d279bae002b883f7074ec > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) = b2baa8c18d4637ef02822a0da6717408 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso) = 2b151a3cea8843d322c75ff76779ffcf > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 97800ec7d4b29927a8e66a2b53e987fb > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-disc1.iso) = 7d29cd9317997136507078971762a0d8 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-livefs.iso) = 6ff974e60a3964cf16fcec05925c14e9 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-pc98-disc1.iso) = 40a3134cce89bd5f7033d8b9181edf91 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = > 2f64974e9bd5adcf813f5d35ff742443 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-powerpc-disc1.iso) = b2562c38414ff4866f5ed8b3a38683c8 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = > ae9610aeb1169d2cc649628606014441 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = af21752630b13cf60c9498fbf7f793b6 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 3241af814bfe93a97707c7a964c57718 > > > Thanks to Ken Smith, Marcel Moolenaar, Wilko Bulte, and Takahashi > Yoshihiro, and Peter Grehan for doing the sparc64, ia64, alpha, pc98, > and ppc builds, respectively. Thanks also to Ken Smith for his > help on > writing much of this announcement. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
Am Samstag, 16. Juli 2005 13:06 schrieb ?ystein Holmen:> I was looking for a place to download > 6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso to test om my PowerMac G4. But I > cannot find it on any of the ftp- sites og mirrors. Where can I > download it?Forgot that: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2005-July/001270.html mentions that one should better skip BETA1 for PPC and wait for the next BETA (RC?) Andreas -- Andreas Braml a.strich.b@web.de PGP-Key: 0xEB7B9BFB http://braml.org/andreas_braml.asc Keyserver: random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050716/86c07453/attachment.bin
Scott Long wrote:> Announcement > ------------ > > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the > availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the > FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. > > FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 branch > than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from FreeBSD 4. Much of the work that has > gone into 6.0 development has focused on polishing and improving the > work from 5.x These changes include streamlining direct device access > in the kernel, providing a multi-threaded SMP-safe UFS/VFS filesystem > layer, implementing WPA and Host-AP 802.11 features, as well as > countless bugfixes and device driver improvements. Major updates and > improvements have been made to ACPI power and thermal management, ATA, > and many aspects of the network infrastructure. 32bit application > support for AMD64 is also greatly improved, as is compatiblity with > certain Athlon64 motherboards. This release is also the first to > feature experimental PowerPC support for the Macintosh G3 and G4 > platforms.Can anyone direct me to more information about the new WPA and Host-AP 802.11 features? / Carl
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
2005-Jul-18 16:23 UTC
cua*x naming? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available]
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 18:18 +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:> Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2005 21:12 CEST schrieb Robert Watson: > > > (2) /dev/cuaa* has been renamed to /dev/cuad* > > I saw that cuaa got cuad and ucom0 got cuaU0. Now what is the meaning of > cua? tty AFAIK is TeleTYpe...Call(-out) Unit Access, IIRC. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH