I'm too impatient to wait for the final release of this branch.Are the RC1'S generally stable and does this one include KDE?I just need a desktop bsd.
THX

the final release is coming in like 1 day. but if you're that impatient, rc1 has kde. you could always rebuild world and update your entire system to the final release later on i suppose.

correction: 5 days until the final release. just checked the freebsd site....

If it were as the schedule says I would wait but I was expecting 5.3 final on Oct 3rd.They are smart to take all the time they need though.I will stick with slack 10 'till 5.3 final is out,probably.

-You don't happen to know how well the Nvidia drivers perform on RC1 do you?

they're perfect on 5.2.1, and i'm going to assume nothing has changed about that.

Actually, I had stability problems with the drivers on 5.2.1 but found that 5.3 has solved those. So they are even more stable than 5.2.1.

You can download the RC and then update your sources and do a buildworld. The final sources are all but in place. They are just doing the builds and giving the mirror sites some heads up time. I am running 5.3-stable {post release} at the moment by doing it that way.

Also, it would be nice to do it that way (if you know how) because it takes the load off the servers when the announcement comes.

So, download RC1 and then upgrade to stable... or even to RELEASE if you just want to go that far. Note: an upgrade will always lable itself as stable unless you catch it at the very moment of the RELEASE or specify that you want the release. This is the way the tree works.

Thanks-I appreciatte your helpfulness.



-Does anyone know what this means?

Known issues in this release:
- Panic in sodealloc() under heavy load. A fix is being tested now.
- Poor performance of the de and re drivers. Fixes are being tested
now.


-What are the de and re drivers?