FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Released

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The FreeBSD developers just announced the release of an official snapshot of the upcoming FreeBSD 5.0 which should be expected in November. Time to try out amazing new feature like background fsck, FFS snapshots, KSC, devfs, SMPng and many more. Check the Release Notes for detailed information." Read on for a list of ISO mirrors, too.

Thanks to AEtherSPOON, you can spare the main servers and use one of these FTP mirrors to grab the ISO:

• ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
• ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
• ftp://ftp.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
• ftp://ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
• ftp://ftp.dk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/

Comments

This is shamelssly offtopic, but....

[fm6]

Somebody want to explain the FreeBSD versus OpenBSD soap opera to me? I missed a lot of the early episodes. Is Theo a total jerk or an unfairly maligned software visionary? Are the FreeBSD guys arbitrary fascists or hardworking freeware volunteers just trying to keep things sane?

Also, are they really gonna kill of Tara? No, wait, different show. Sorry!