FreeBSD 6.0 Released

Reyad Attiyat writes FreeBSD 6.0 is ready for release! New features, and there are lots, can be reviewed at the official site. One of the biggest and most anticipated features (mentioned before on Slashdot) is wireless support, which has been greatly improved upon. This includes support for a lot more cards, WAP support, and integration into the dhcpd client. This release comes only mere days off NetBSD's release and an OpenBSD release. Version 6.0 was intended to be released way back in August but due to a number of factors it had to be delayed till now. Aside from this major release the FreeBSD project has also had some major changes, including most recently a new logo and also a brand new website."

Comments

Re:Torrent?

[cperciva]

Anyone know if there's a torrent available?

Yes. The official release announcement (which for some reason wasn't linked in the story) has a link to the torrent files.

Re:6-STABLE?

[cperciva]

The 6-STABLE branch starts with 6.0-RELEASE. The 5-STABLE branch started with 5.3-RELEASE.

From what I've seen, 6.0-RELEASE is more stable than 5.3 or 5.4.

Re:6-STABLE?

[cperciva]

6 just came out, [so] how can one possibly proclaim that the newer release is even more stable? Enough time hasnt passed yet.

Not at all. I (and many other people) have been running 6.0-BETAs since mid-July, and 6.0-RC1 since early October. This isn't just a random snapshot of HEAD; the code which became 6.0-RELEASE was frozen apart from patches approved by the release engineering team for months leading up to the release.