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FreeBSD 6.2: Polished, More Stable

  Submitted by iangibson FreeBSD 49 Comments
FreeBSD 6.2, one of the most popular versions of the free BSD Unix operating system, is out with new features and updates. It plugs holes and, in addition to the usual route of installing directly to a hard drive this time around, offers a LiveCD that can be used to rescue a broken system. Developers on the free version of the BSD Unix operating system hope it will help build momentum for what is arguably the most popular BSD variant in use.
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FreeBSD Status Report Fourth Quarter 2006

  Submitted by Joel Dahl FreeBSD 17 Comments
"This report covers the last quarter of a exciting year 2006 for FreeBSD development. FreeBSD 6.2 is finally out of the door and work towards FreeBSD 7.0 is gearing up." This report includes detailed information about (among others) ZFS, iSCSI, ARM, a new USB stack, Network Stack Virtualization, Wireless networking, and Sound Subsystem improvements.
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What’s Cooking for FreeBSD 7?

  Submitted by anonymous FreeBSD 9 Comments
The FreeBSD development team is now busy working on the project's next major release, FreeBSD 7. This release is expected to contain a large number of radical new features, including a port of the ZFS file system and DTrace diagnostic tool from Solaris, as well as substantial performance enhancements. Those of you who are interested in learning about the changes in the rapidly evolving FreeBSD 7 branch should bookmark the 'What's cooking for FreeBSD 7?' page, which attempts to summarise the recent commits by the project's developers. FreeBSD 7.0 is scheduled for release in late 2007.
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FreeBSD 6.2 Released to Mirrors

  Submitted by Oliver FreeBSD 37 Comments
FreeBSD 6.2 has been released to mirrors. The release notes for your specific platform are also available. "FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon64, and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development."
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FreeBSD 6.2-RC2 Released

  Submitted by Joel Dahl FreeBSD 30 Comments
The second release candidate of FreeBSD 6.2 has been released. "All problems we felt needed to be addressed before 6.2 could be released have been taken care of. Unless further testing turns up something new RC2, which is available now for dowloading, will be the last of the Release Candidates and 6.2-RELEASE should be ready in about 2 weeks."
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FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter December

  Submitted by Joel Dahl FreeBSD 20 Comments
This FreeBSD newsletter covers the foundations recent activities, such as the 2006 fund raise campaign, the network stack virtualization project, the FreeBSD/sun4v and FreeBSD/arm projects, Java for FreeBSD, BSD conferences and a new 10Gigabit network testbed.
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ZFS Patches for FreeBSD

  Submitted by Tanked FreeBSD 26 Comments
The first set of patches are available to compile the ZFS file system module on FreeBSD. "This is a first set of patches, which allows to use ZFS file system from OpenSolaris on FreeBSD. To apply the patch you need to have recent FreeBSD source (be sure you have rev. 1.284 of src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c). To try it out you need i386 machine (this is what I tested) and kernel without WITNESS compiled in (there are probably some warnings still). Currently it can only be compiled as a kernel module."
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FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 Released

  Submitted by James Hopton FreeBSD 29 Comments
"We have now reached the Release Candidate stage of the FreeBSD 6.2 release cycle. A few significant problems had been discovered during the initial BETA testing and those issues should now be fixed. RC1 is the first of two planned Release Candidate builds. If no more significant problems are reported 6.2-RELEASE builds will be done after RC2."
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FreeBSD Security Event Auditing

  Submitted by Joel Dahl FreeBSD 5 Comments
The upcoming release of FreeBSD 6.2 includes the new Security Event Auditing system, that "permits the selective and fine-grained logging of security-relevant system events for the purposes of post-mortem analysis, intrusion detection, and run-time monitoring analysis." Federico Biancuzzi interviewed Robert Watson, founder of the TrustedBSD project, and discussed the advantages and potential it brings. Elsewhere, SCTP has been added to FreeBSD. Stream Control Transmission Protocol is a reliable message oriented transport protocol which provides network fault tolerance.
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Virtual Bridges Announces Win4BSD

  Submitted by Edward FreeBSD 22 Comments
"Virtual Bridges, a provider of enterprise and SMB solutions using virtualization for business, announced today the release of Win4BSD Pro Desktop Win4BSD Pro Desktop runs as a FreeBSD/PC-BSD application and allows users to run Windows applications and desktops with seamless ease on the BSD platform. The company also announced that it will be releasing Win4BSD Virtual Desktop Server, a FreeBSD-based desktop consolidation server, during October."
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FreeBSD Core Team Election 2006: Results

  Submitted by Joel Dahl FreeBSD 4 Comments
The FreeBSD project has elected its new core team. "I am pleased to announce the results of the 2006 FreeBSD core team election. Congratulations to Wilko, George, Hiroki, Brooks and Giorgos who will be joining the core team, and of course to Robert, Warner, Murray and Wes who retain their seats. Our thanks also must go to Peter, John, Scott, Mark and Jun for all their hard work over the last two years."
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