Upgrading FreeBSD 6.3 to FreeBSD 7.0

Posted by Ron Valente Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:55:00 GMT

This is a surprisingly simple process. I just upgraded my development system and it took me about 10 minutes to be completely back up and running. As of FreeBSD 6.3 the freebsd-update utility supports upgrading to new binary releases. All of this can be done in one simple step.

freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.0-RELEASE

Enjoy!

FreeBSD 7.0 Released

Posted by Ron Valente Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:52:00 GMT

This is a monumental day for FreeBSD users. The long awaited version 7.0 of FreeBSD has finally arrived. There are many great improvements like 350% - 1500% performance increase with SMP machines. Read the release notes for more details.

-Ron