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FreeBSD 8.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the to-be-thankful dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8 stable release. Some of the highlights: Xen DomU support, network stack virtualization, stack-smashing protection, TTY layer rewrite, much improved ZFS v13, a new USB stack, multicast updates including IGMPv3, vimage — a new virtualization container, Fedora 10 Linux binary compatibility to run Linux software such as Flash 10 and others, trusted BSD MAC (Mandatory Access Control), and rewritten NFS client/server introducing NFSv4. Inclusion of improved device mmap() extensions will allow the technical implementation of a 64-bit Nvidia display driver for the x86-64 platform. The GNOME desktop environment has been upgraded to 2.26.3, KDE to 4.3.1, and Firefox to 3.5.5. There is also an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes in FreeBSD 8.0, including a screenshot tour, upgrade instructions are posted here. You can grab the latest version from FreeBSD from the mirrors (main ftp server) or via BitTorrent. Please consider making a donation and help us to spread the word by tweeting and blogging about the drive and release."

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  1. Re:Jumping the gun... by MrMr · · Score: 2, Funny

    But in order for that to work we would have to rtfa.

  2. Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    FreeBSD 8.0 Released

    I won't believe it until Netcraft confirms it.

  3. Re:Why would a desktop user would run it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    But to each her own.

    Well, aren't you hip and and with it.

  4. Re:Jumping the gun... by Razalhague · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tell me about it. When I was new here I always used to read the articles before posting, but by then everyone had already commented and spent their mod points so I never got any karma! But then I learnt the proper way of doing things and now I've got karma to burn on offtopic posts about slashdot!

  5. Re:Why would a desktop user would run it? by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 3, Funny

    But to each her own. :)

    Her? This is Slashdot you know.

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  6. Re:Jumping the gun... by krelian · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was wondering about that; I saw "FreeBSD 8.0 Final" a few days ago on FileForum [betanews.com], but the FreeBSD homepage said RC3 was the latest.

    Was it released by RAZOR1911?

  7. Re:Funny how similar the free Unices are by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You know you're on Slashdot when a jar full of fanboy wank is called 'insightful'.

    I wish! My FreeDOS drivel never got that much attention despite it being a full featured, state of the art, operating system with a mature code base.

  8. Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Which explains why Win2000 was the best version of windows ever made.

  9. Re:Funny how similar the free Unices are by BrookHarty · · Score: 2, Funny

    FreeBSD may not have the best accelerated 3D graphics drivers, or the flashiest X desktops and themes, ...

    Hey, Neither does Windows 7!

  10. Re:Awesome! by ScrewMaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Be happy that no grammar Nazi is close. With that amount of errors he would have ripped you to shreds. ^^

    Yes, well, you'll do until he shows up.

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