FreeBSD 4.3 released!!

[Bully_Crist]

woohoo!! just thought I should let y'all in on the secret :cool:

then again, y'all probably know about this already

[Bully_Crist]

taken from the comments page on Slashdot, relating to the new release:

<SNIP>

Hah! MacOS X? Yes I know it has a nice GUI, but
what for people who either don't like no gfx
(as me) or who just want to run routers (any
*BSD or Linux), firewalls (I'd recommend OpenBSD) or servers (Linux' Samba sometimes works, *BSD I had no experience).
I, for example, dont want no steenking new "Clicki-clicki-coloured" UI but an OS which simply does run. And at the moment I'm using Linux (no distribution but hand-made), Win for gamez, DOS for SNES emu and will get OpenBSD 2.9 in the hope it is usable and administrable for me.
Every *BSD has its special features, e.g. NetBSD its portability. Always code has been exchanged between these OSes, and some developers even of the Linux side share their code which every else one gets GPL'ed with the *BSD developers (I think of "drivers").
So please stop flaming "BSD is dead", "$OTHER_OS rocks" etc. and remain democratic. I use several OSes and still am content with MS-DOS 3.30A of 1988 which I got with my first computer (at the age of 8). And, I sometimes still code in GW-BASIC. I expect some flame about this, but why put working stuff into the rubbish bin? Some people even still use COBOL in business. It seems as it has even survived Y2K, Y2.001K etc. crisis - so what?
If any energy put on flaming against *BSD or making religious war of UN*X flavours were put into making every of the opensourced OSes better, we prolly even had a Win32 API in the (Linux, *BSD, *IX, *UX) kernels. As well as *BSD can run native Linux programmes.

</SNIP>

great stuff...

[FoBoT]

i accidently found this last night
i happened to pick last night to finally try an ftp install of freeBSD and it pointed me at a 4.3 folder, i was confused :confused:

now it is stuck, sorta, think i have some bad spots on my hd :(

[RTFM]

Woot! :D

Now...

/me waits on NetBSD cds to arrive (THANKS TO BEOWHOLFS_GHOST !!!! )

Although I think I just misspeeled his nick :o

[FoBoT]

i killed it
will try again when the new hd arrives, hopefully mooday or twosday

[Beowulfs_Ghost]

Cool Beans!

Just picked up a new hard drive yesterday to replace my old FreeBSD drive (which bruned out). Perfect timing.

[The Whizzard]

Originally posted by FoBoT-9223:
<STRONG>i killed it
will try again when the new hd arrives, hopefully mooday or twosday</STRONG>
Can you send me old broken HDD?

[pointreyes]

Dang it! Good grief, I like FreeBSD but at least get the 4.3 on ftp2 along with ftp. Stinkin' 'server busy' over and over and over and over and over and.... :mad:

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by The Whizzard:
<STRONG>Originally posted by FoBoT-9223:
i killed it
will try again when the new hd arrives, hopefully mooday or twosday</STRONG>
Can you send me old broken HDD?

it is in the box, will drop it at usps moonday :)
it is a 1gb scsi-2 50pin half height 3.5" IBM drive, some bad sectors

[ 22 April 2001: Message edited by: FoBoT-9223 ]

[frozen.flame]

If ftp.freebsd.org is busy, try ftp11.freebsd.org, the hidden server of speed (well, it worked for me).

[pointreyes]

Originally posted by frozen.flame:
<STRONG>If ftp.freebsd.org is busy, try ftp11.freebsd.org, the hidden server of speed (well, it worked for me).</STRONG>

It didn't work for me. I tried ftp2 through 4 before giving up. Tried 11 and same result. The URL is not valid for the download (in other words, file not found).

[EscapeCharacter]

if yall are trying to update world and all there are a bunch of cvs mirrors http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/FBSDsites.php3?cvsup=do

if not heres all the ftp mirrors http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/FBSDsites.php3?release=4.3-RELEASE

personally im going to wait a couple days before i update i tried to get 4.2 when it first came and had the same type of problems

[pointreyes]

Originally posted by EscapeCharacter:
<STRONG>if yall are trying to update world and all there are a bunch of cvs mirrors http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/FBSDsites.php3?cvsup=do

if not heres all the ftp mirrors http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/FBSDsites.php3?release=4.3-RELEASE

personally im going to wait a couple days before i update i tried to get 4.2 when it first came and had the same type of problems</STRONG>

I am waiting a couple of days, it will take 40 hours to download the image. :)

I would use CVSetup but I cannot connect to the web except with Windows based ISP. So, I'm stuck either until an ISP will support a Unix connect for a price closer to what I can afford or until I can afford the current costs of the ISPs.

[Beowulfs_Ghost]

Don't know about you guys. I just ftp'd 4.3 today off the ftp11 server. It was damn fast. Topped out at about 340KB/s.

I'm typing this from 4.3 right now. Still have to do some kernel configuring tonight (SMP, audio, trim off some bloat).

I'll try and get iso's for anyone that wants CD's (at my usual price).