14 DAY TRIAL // The long awaited FreeBSD 6.2 has started appearing as of last night on the mirrors worldwide: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. This release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many bug fixes and new features."
This release contains new updates to the KDE & GNOME desktop environments and to numerous drivers, as well as new drivers (amdsmb(4), enc(4) ipmi(4), nfsmb(4), stge(4)) and a lot of security fixes.
Highlights of this release include:
￭ freebsd-update (8) provides officially supported binary updates for security fixes and errata patches; ￭ Experimental support for CAPP security event auditing; ￭ OpenBSM audit command line tool suite and library; ￭ KDE updated to 3.5.4, GNOME updated to 2.16.1; ￭ csup(1) integrated cvsup client now included; ￭ Disk integrity protection and authentication added to geli(4); ￭ New amdsmb(4), enc(4) ipmi(4), nfsmb(4), stge(4) drivers; ￭ IPFW(4) packet tagging; ￭ Linux emulation support for sysfs; ￭ BIND updated to 9.3.3; ￭ Many driver updates including em(4), arcmsr(4), ath(4), bce(4), ata(4), and iwi(4).
For more features and known problems, please visit the Release Notes Document and the Errata Document.
What is FreeBSD?
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system based on the version 4.4 of BSD Lite. FreeBSD was build to work on machines like DEC/Compaq/HP Alpha/AXP computers (alpha), AMD64 and Intel EM64T based PC hardware (amd64), Intel, AMD, Cyrix or NexGen "x86" based PC hardware (i386), Intel Itanium Processor based computers (ia64), NEC PC-9801/9821 series PCs and compatibles (pc98), and UltraSPARC machines (sparc64). The FreeBSD team will prepare versions for the PowerPC (powerpc), and MIPS (mips) architectures in the near future. FreeBSD can be used for everything from software development to games and works with a wide variety of peripherals and configurations.
You can download the new version of FreeBSD from Softpedia.