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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