[NullSpin]

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It is once again my great privilege and pleasure to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE. Building upon the success of
FreeBSD 5.1, this release includes:

- Full Tier-1 support for single and multiprocessor AMD Athlon64 and
Opteron systems.
- Dynamically linked root partition for a smaller installation
footprint
and better integration with the Name Service Switch subsystem.
- New and improved driver support for IDE, SATA, and 802.11a/b/g
devices,
and significantly better integration with the ACPI power management
subsystem.
- Client support for the Network File System version 4 protocol.
- Experimental first-stage support for multithreaded filtering and
forwarding of IP traffic. This also provides the foundation for a
fully multi-threaded network stack in the next release of FreeBSD.
- In-box support for the latest Gnome 2.4 and KDE 3.1 desktops.

FreeBSD 5.2 also contains a number of significant stability and
performance
improvements over FreeBSD 5.1. However, it is still considered a 'New
Technology' release and might not be suitable for all users. Those
with
more conservative needs may prefer to continue using FreeBSD 4.X.
Information on the various trade-offs involved, as well as some notes
on
future plans for both FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X, can be found in the Early
Adopter's Guide, available here:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.2R/early-adopter.html


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/5.2R/relnotes.html

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.2R/errata.html


For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities,
please see:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/


Availability
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FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE supports the i386, pc98, alpha, sparc64, amd64, and
ia64 architectures and can be installed directly over the net using
bootable media or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for
all architectures are available now.

Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media
from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies will be
offering FreeBSD 5.2 based products:

FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/

Daemonnews, Inc. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html


If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to
use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO
images. We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the
larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from the
following sites. MD5 checksums for the release images are included at
the bottom of this message.

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/

ftp://ftp{2,3,4,5,6,7,9,11,12}.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp{2,4,5}.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/

ftp://ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/

ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/

ftp://ftp{1,2}.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/

FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the
following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada,
China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Lithuania,
Amylonia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional
mirror(s) first by going to:

ftp://ftp..FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD


Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html


For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The
FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through
for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html


Acknowledgments
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Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to
finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 5.2 including
The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and
NTT/Verio.

The release engineering team for 5.2-RELEASE includes:

Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering,
I386 and Alpha Release
Building
Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering,
Documentation
Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Security
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> Sparc64 Release Building,
Mirror Site Coordination
Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org> IA64 Release Building
David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> AMD64 Release Building
Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org> PC98 Release Building
Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Joe Marcus Clark (marcus@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar@FreeBSD.org> Security Officer

CD Image Checksums
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[elmore]

NICE!

[indexer]

Has anyone tried 5.2 yet?
--indexer

[bmw]

Has anyone tried 5.2 yet?
I tried it on a 2001-vintage Thinkpad (850MHz Celeron). While booting the install CD it freezes in one of two places (config'ing h/w) depending on whether I choose "normal" or any other (eg "safe") mode.

So I guess that's really a "no" to your question. :-)

[Kernel_Killer]

I had the same trouble with RC2 on a Vaio FX210. I ended up just using the RC1 installer to install RC2. Guess it's time to upgrade already.

[Atlas]

I played around a bit with RC-2 over the holidays and had severe problems with ports and packages not installing, some rather major projects, too (kdebase3). Could easily have been my own newbiness, but that's the only experience I have with 5.2 thus far. When the GA Tech mirror is active, I'll check back :)

[soup4you2]

been running -CURRENT and it seems pretty rock solid..

[bsdjunkie]

5.2 RC2 is going fine on my system. I plan on upgrading this weekend.

[socomm]

Just upgraded to 5.2, and my system is running like a dog :x . Though that's probably due to the fact that I did not include any optimization flags in my Make.conf file. So far however, everything is running fine ( albeit slow ).

[soup4you2]

just updated all my systems today.. and it's running like a champ... i've read around about certain things needing to be recompiled but havent had any issues with that at all..

[rob897]

Mine is working great, got my soundcard and video card back up and running. Still having the network issue on reboot.

[Atlas]

Swinging right along in an Inspiron 8100. Having some issues with power management, but then again, it's UNIX on a laptop. Go figure.

[socomm]

Just recompiled 'world' with the opt flags and 5.2 is running just as fast as 5.1.

/me is happy :)

[hugh nicks]

I just put 5.2.1 on my system last night, and got kde up and running this morning, but is it just me, or is cvsupit gone from the ports? I was all set to run through KrUsTy!'s how-to, when i noticed it was gone. Are there any alternatives out there that are comparable to what was posted here?

http://screamingelectron.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=221

Thanks,
-hn

[KrUsTy!]

I just put 5.2.1 on my system last night, and got kde up and running this morning, but is it just me, or is cvsupit gone from the ports? I was all set to run through KrUsTy!'s how-to, when i noticed it was gone. Are there any alternatives out there that are comparable to what was posted here?

http://screamingelectron.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=221

Unfortunately cvsupit is gone... I don't know why but it was removed from the ports a while ago. So you'll have to configure your cvsup manually.

You'll need to install cvsup from ports /usr/ports/net/cvsup. If you don't have X11 installed you can use the port /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui.

Then setup a config file for grabbing the ports tree. I call it /etc/cvsupfile, but you can call it anything you want.

[code:1:ee195f1555]*default host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs
*default tag=none
*default delete use-rel-suffix

*default tag=.
ports-all
[/code:1:ee195f1555]

Think I stole that file from Elmore somewhere. Choose whatever cvsup server is best for you.

Then just issue the cvs command to get it all running. You can still put that in a shell script and cron it if you want. Here is the one I use,

[code:1:ee195f1555]/usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 -z /etc/cvsupfile[/code:1:ee195f1555]

That should get you updating the ports.

Guess I should update that how-to now that cvsupit is no longer in the ports...

{K}

[socomm]

is it just me, or is cvsupit gone from the ports?


cvsupit is broken, try using cvsup instead.

Save the following to a file (eg: /etc/supfile):

[code:1:d70779c33f]
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default host=cvsup5.freebsd.org
*default base=/usr
*default delete user-rel-suffix
ports-all
[/code:1:d70779c33f]

and run `cvsup -g -L2 /etc/supfile' where /etc/supfile is the path to your file that stores the above values. To upgrade your /usr/src just replace ports-all with src-all, I have two files for this /etc/supfile(ports) and /etc/srcupfile(src).

Enjoy!

EDIT: Seems as if krusty beat me to the punch :lol:

[KrUsTy!]

Only by about 2 minutes! :lol:

Nice to mention the src-all for those looking to setup tracking of the src tree as well.

{K}

[socomm]

Unfortunately cvsupit is gone... I don't know why but it was removed from the ports a while ago.


It was removed last May (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2003-May/001056.html) , as far as I can tell cvsupit is probably dead now.

[hugh nicks]

so far so good. i'm in the process of the portupgrade, and it's just finishing up with kde. thanks for everyone's help. i'll let you know how it goes.

-hn

[hugh nicks]

As of the time of this writing, I'm upgrading to kde 3.2. I had done my port upgrade last night, watched the raptor game, and ended going out with KrUsTy!, when he told me that 3.2 was updated in the ports at around 5 last night. So when I got home, I had to update kde all over again, and my box is still chuggin' away. Has anyone set it up yet, and if so, does it look as pretty as in my dreams?

-hn

[socomm]

So when I got home, I had to update kde all over again


Aint that a bitch!

From what I've seen so far it does not look all that different, I'll just wait til the binarie are avalable :).

[hugh nicks]

After many, many hours of compiling, recompiling and cursing, I gave up on methods to install kde3.2.0. Between the error messages I got during the make, to my cvsup going all wonky on me (instead of updating the ports, it either deleted them all, or made a duplicate), I needed to take a break.

So after my kitkat, I decided to try another method. I loaded up FBSD and did a post-install of gnome. Once that was running, I got my cvsup running and updated, then did a portupgrade. Once everything was good to go, I then tried to make kde from the ports. Once that was done, re-did my xinitrc, and away we went.

btw,I found gnome really sluggish to use, and the web browser took forever to load pages. kde 3.2. is really zippy on my machine, and i'm actually writing this post with firefox 0.8 (which i'm in love with!).

now to get NWN ready to go.....

-hn

[NullSpin]

Looks like 5.2.1 rc2 is out as of today. I haven't seen the new change log.