The latest version of this distro can be downloaded from Softpedia

Jun 22, 2014 14:53 GMT  ·  By

The first Release Candidate of FreeBSD 9.3, an operating system for x86, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98, and UltraSPARC architectures, has been released and can now be tested.

The FreeBSD developers are moving very fast and they've released yet another development version just days after the previous one. This is an older branch of FreeBSD and its makers are not pulling any punches.

“The first RC build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures,” reads the official announcement.

According to the changelog, a number of bug fixes in the hptrr driver have been implemented, the time zone data has been updated to version tzdata2014e, and the handling of the-P flag without’-p or-r has been fixed in the daemon utility.

Also, bug in the nvme controller initialization path has been fixed and a bug in the fast receive buffer recycle path has been corrected in the cxgbe driver.

The official changelog comes with a complete list of instructions. You can download FreeBSD 9.3 RC1 right now from Softpedia.

Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.