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Operating Systems BSD FreeBSD 5.2.1 Post 53146 by obitus on Wednesday 7th of July 2004 12:59:31 AM
Old 07-07-2004
Some other things worth noting about FreeBSD 5.2.1

5.x now supports background fsck's when soft updates are enabled. It creates a snapshot of the filesystem, and does a filesystem check on that. For people coming from the Linux world, it is something like Ext3/Rieserfs journaling. (however, in the background it works very differently)

5.x has alot more driver support. Check the supported hardware list if you want to be sure your hardware is supported. For example, I was forced to use FreeBSD 5.2 rather then 4.10 because of an 802.11g card I have.

5.2.1 has better jail() support then 5.0.

5.2.1 no long requires perl to be installed in the base system (allowing you to install just the ports version of perl rather then having both a system perl and a ports perl, as well as lowing the disk requirements for the base install)


And there is a number of other changes you could check the FreeBSD changelog for.

As stated above, FreeBSD 5.2.1 is not marked as stable, but I consiter it much more stable then some other 'stable' operating systems.
 

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PERLFREEBSD(1)						 Perl Programmers Reference Guide					    PERLFREEBSD(1)

NAME
README.freebsd - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems DESCRIPTION
This document describes various features of FreeBSD that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. FreeBSD core dumps from readdir_r with ithreads When perl is configured to use ithreads, it will use re-entrant library calls in preference to non-re-entrant versions. There is a bug in FreeBSD's "readdir_r" function in versions 4.5 and earlier that can cause a SEGV when reading large directories. A patch for FreeBSD libc is available (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/30631 ) which has been integrated into FreeBSD 4.6. $^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD perl 5.8.0 sets $^X where possible to a full path by asking the operating system. On FreeBSD the full path of the perl interpreter is found by reading the symlink /proc/curproc/file. There is a bug on FreeBSD, where the result of reading this symlink is can be wrong in certain circumstances (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35703 ). In these cases perl will fall back to the old behaviour of using C's argv[0] value for $^X. Perl will no longer be part of "base FreeBSD" Not as bad as it sounds--what this means is that Perl will no longer be part of the kernel build system of FreeBSD. Perl will still very probably be part of the "default install", and in any case the latest version will be in the ports system. The first FreeBSD version this change will affect is 5.0, all 4.n versions will keep the status quo. AUTHOR
Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>, collating wisdom supplied by Slaven Rezic and Tim Bunce. Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to perlbug@perl.org. perl v5.8.0 2003-02-18 PERLFREEBSD(1)
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