14 DAY TRIAL // The second Release Candidate of FreeBSD 9.3, an operating system for x86, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98, and UltraSPARC architectures, is now available for download and testing.
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 disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB, which decompress to a 20GB sparse image,” reads the official announcement.
According to the changelog, a bug in the fast rx buffer recycle path has been fixed in the cxgbe driver, a bug that would incorrectly allow two listening SCTP sockets on the same port bound to the wildcard address has been fixed, multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in file and libmagic, and a workaround has been implemented to fix serial ports on certain motherboards, in particular the Intel D2500CCE board.
Also, a bug in bsdgrep(1) that would prevent certain pattern matching has been corrected and the bsdconfig(8) utility has been updated to support pkg-format packages.
The official changelog comes with a complete list of instructions. You can download FreeBSD 9.3 RC2 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.