This results in the bits being visible “early” to people who know where to look, but that’s OK. So, we adopted a new policy of being more laid back about it, pushing the bits out through multiple channels, making Bittorrent trackers available, etc, but still not announcing until the mirror sites were ready. Why chastise people for being excited for the release? It’s certainly not productive to chase away people who are obviously enthusiastic about FreeBSD. So, we finally realized how silly all the secrecy was. We played with tricks like pushing the bits out in unreadable directories and then getting the mirror admins to ‘unamsk’ them once everyone was ready, but that quickly turned into a huge coordination nightmare. Part of this was wanting the vanity of making the big splash ourselves, but part of it was legitimate concern over giving the mirror sites enough time to sync their bits and be prepared. Several years ago, we did get uptight about news sites covering releases before they were officially announced. Don’t like it, don’t use it, grin.Ĭan’t wait to see how well they polish up the upcoming 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 releases if 6.0 is already looking this good. Don’t fuss about things you aren’t willing to help fix…they don’t care. Enjoy, so far looks to NOT be the typical mess of a x.0 release, not perfect, but looks pretty polished from a server side of things. For those coming from the Linux world, this can be hard to grasp, grin.ĭownload if you wish. There is a lot of hardware out there they do not care about as it’s so poorly designed the best drivers are not going to make it stable. If your hardware isn’t listed, they will not care much and your results will vary □ FreeBSD is oriented more towards small common servers (changing though) than trying to take over the desktop market from Redmond…keep this in mind = save yourself a lot of grief. If they follow the usual pattern, since they posted the ISO’s yesterday afternoon, I’d expect the offical announcement to come out sometime later today.įYI, here’s what looks to be the release announcment: This delay between uploads and announcments is, I think, to give enough time for all the mirrors to get synced up before they turn loose the deluge of initial downloads that follows the actual announcement. They will often upload ISO’s a day or so before the actuall announcment. I agree it would be nice if they would either take it down or redo how that info gets posted/updated, causes confusion and unnecessary worry. In short, don’t worry about it, old info and far from complete. That’s always been a rough draft of problems being worked on at the time of posting, don’t worry about it, not what the developers use (they use GNATS to do bug tracking). The To Do page hasn’t been updated since 10/23 (check at the bottom), most of those issues have likely been long taken care of.
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