Add to del.icio.us     Digg this

May 4, 2009

The FreeBSD engineering team has released its new 7.2 version of its Linux operating system. This is the second release from the 7 series which improves on the features of FreeBSD 7.1.

Here are some of the highlights of the new 7.2 release:

Users of earlier FreeBSD releases (FreeBSD 6.x) can also use FreeBSD Update to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.2, but will be prompted to rebuild all third-party applications (e.g., anything installed from the ports tree) after the second invocation of "freebsd-update install", in order to handle differences in the system libraries between FreeBSD 6.x and FreeBSD 7.x.

For a full list of all the new features and known bugs, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.2R/relnotes.html.

The new release of FreeBSD version 7.2 is now available for the AMD 64, i386, IA 64, PC 98, Power PC and SPARC 64 architectures.

As always, FreeBSD 7.2 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over a network.

The required files can be downloaded via FTP or BitTorrent as described on the FreeBSD website. While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all architectures, they will all generally contain the more common ones, such as i386 and amd64.

Note:- Late in the testing cycle, it was later discovered that some servers may not recognize the i386 Disc 1 as bootable-- they just fall through to booting off the next boot device. All affected computers and servers however did see the other discs as bootable.

The new release of FreeBSD 7.2 can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several BSD vendors.

The FreeBSD-update utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and AMD 64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running the 7.0 version, the 7.1 and 7.2 (beta) can upgrade as they wish.

During the FreeBSD upgrade to the R 7.2 release, users may merge some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging was done correctly.

Source: OS Today.

Add to del.icio.us     Digg this

All logos, trade marks or service marks on this website are the property of their respective companies or owners.

ADVERTISERS:
Linux News Today.org is read by over 450,000 people involved in the field of Linux application development, professional Web hosting services, Linux security, Linux Web development, etc. Inquire about our reasonable advertising rates on our news website. One of our advertising representatives will be in touch with you. Simply email us to learn about our ad rates and how we can help drive relevant traffic to your website. Advertising space is limited.