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FreeBSD 5.0 Available

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-has-a-better-mascot dept.

Vegard writes "Although not yet officially announced, the 5.0 version of FreeBSD is beginning to appear on the FreeBSD FTP site and mirrors world wide." Congrats to the developers. Update: 01/19 17:44 GMT by T : Some more detail -- Dan writes "Scott Long of FreeBSD Release Engineering team has officially announced the availability of FreeBSD 5.0 release. Improvements include second generation UFS filesystem, GEOM, the extensible and flexible storage framework, DEVFS, the device virtual filesystem, Bluetooth, ACPI, CardBus, IEEE 1394 and many more! FreeBSD is also available on 64-bit sparc64 and ia64 platforms."

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  1. Well done /. by gdc34 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The /. 'editors' do it again..

    http://bsd.slashdot.org/

    N.B. I realise that the post mentioned it hasn't been officially released- but I suspect the FreeBSD team don't want it to be unofficially released to the general public yet.