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Wednesday, October 29, 2003

FreeBSD 4.9 Released

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FreeBSD 4.9 was released late yesterday night.

It contains the usual assortment of bug fixes and security holes closed. Some new kernel changes, support for the Physical Address Extensions (PAE) capability on Intel Pentium Pro and higher processors has been added, drivers for more network cards, updates to ipfw, GNOME has been updated to 2.4 and KDE has been updated to 3.1.4 and a few other misc things.

Read the announcement here:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.9R/announce.html
Release notes:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.9R/relnotes.html
Errata:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.9R/errata.html

quote:
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:19:08 -0800
From: "Murray Stokely"
To:
Subject: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE is now available

I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE in April 2003, we have made conservative updates to a number of software programs in the base system, dealt with known security issues, and merged support for large memory i386 machines with Page Address Extensions (PAE) from 5.1.

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the release notes and errata list, available here:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.9R/relnotes.html

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.9R/errata.html

This release does not include all of the new technologies that were introduced with FreeBSD 5.1 in June. Most developer resources are focused on improving the FreeBSD 5.X branch, and this may very well be the last major release of FreeBSD 4.X. The security officer team will continue to actively support the 4.X branch according to the normal policy. Additional 4.9.X releases may be made available when necessitated by security vulnerabilities or high-impact bugfixes.

We encourage all our users to evaluate FreeBSD 5.1 and the upcoming 5.2. Because PAE support has only been a feature in 4.X for a few months, it has not received wide-spread testing, and our most conservative users may wish to stay with FreeBSD 4.8 until they choose to migrate to 5.X.

For more information about the distinctions between FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X, or for general information about the FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see :

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
Posted by abarber on 10/29/2003 at 01:53 PM
Computers & Technology • BSD • (2) Comments • Permalink

I’ve been running red hat.  I’ve heard a lot about freebsd.  Do you think I should switch over to it?

Posted by RHUser  on  10/29/2003  at  03:05 PM

If you are beyond comfortable with Red Hat then give it a try. FreeBSD is a unix and not a linux. It doesn’t hold your hand quite like Red Hat and it will make you learn a whole lot about the OS during the install. If you are ready for a challenge, then go right ahead. If you are still new to *nix, then I don’t know that I would advocate a switch just yet.

Posted by Snowcone  on  10/30/2003  at  06:10 PM

 

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