FreeBSD 4.6 echt gereleased

De nieuwe FreeBSD release is dan echt een feit‚ er zijn wat onechte berichten geweest o.a. op /. maar nu trof ik toch echt een pgp signed message in mijn mailbox aan dat 4.6 gereleased is.

Voor de release notes: [url=http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.6R/relnotes.html]klik hier[/url]

Dus cvsup je sources en maak die wereld opnieuw.

Een quote van de announce mail:
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I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE‚ the
very latest release on the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since
FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE in January 2002‚ we have made hundreds of fixes‚
updated many system components‚ and addressed a wide variety of
security issues.

One of the most significant changes in FreeBSD 4.6 is the adoption of
XFree86 4.2.0 as the default version of the X Windows System. We
encourage users (particularly those upgrading from older installations
of XFree86) to consult the relevant section of the FreeBSD Handbook
for information on installing and configuring XFree86 4.2.0. This
information can be found on-line at:

[url]http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/x11.html[/url]

On systems with the doc distribution installed‚ it can also be found
at:

/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html

A number of enhancements to network device drivers have been made‚ as
well as updates to the ATA storage subsystem.

Some contributed programs have been updated‚ such as sendmail
(updated to 8.12.3) and the ISC DHCP client (updated to 3.0.1RC8).

For more information about the most significant changes with this
release of FreeBSD‚ please see the release notes:

[url]http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.6R/relnotes.html[/url]

It is also useful to peruse the errata file‚ as it contains
late-breaking news about the release:

[url]http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.6R/errata.html[/url]

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities
(including a schedule of upcoming releases)‚ please see:

[url]http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/[/url]

Availability
————

FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and can
be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied
to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for the i386 are available
now. Final builds for the alpha architecture are in progress and will
be made available shortly.

We can’t promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO
images‚ but they will at least be available from:

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.lt.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/FreeBSD/

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‚ otherwise please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by
purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following
companies have contributed substantially to the development of
FreeBSD:

FreeBSD Mall‚ Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/
FreeBSD Services Ltd. http://www.freebsd-services.com/
Daemon News http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html

Each CD or DVD set contains the FreeBSD installation and application
package bits for the i386 (“PC”) architecture. For a set of distfiles
used to build ports in the ports collection‚ please see the FreeBSD
Toolkit‚ a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no longer fit on the 4
CD set‚ or the DVD distribution from FreeBSD Services Ltd.
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