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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. How the fuck is this insightful?!?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously - some anonymous person makes vague claims about how it's "higher quality" - without defining "quality" or providing any citations, reasons, or examples, and it's modded "insightful"?!?! TWICE!??!!

    What. The. Fuck!??!!

    Here's my refutation of this post - containing just as much "insightful" commentary as yours:

    Nuh-uh!

    So, where are *my* "insightful" mods?

  2. Re:Awesome! by cboscari · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I was going to make a joke like "You mean other than Apple?" but that's too easy.

    BSD's desktop users fill the same nitch as Slackware. Advanced users that want to do it themselves. That said, most Linux distro's were put together because, as we all know, Linux is a kernel, and not a complete OS. BSD's, are a more complete distro, and the ports system alleviates the need for a lot of stuff that Linux distros take care of (like a package manager.) Still, they both are "worth it" to develop for for their developers and users, and that's a good thing.

  3. Re:What's the point in the screenshots? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Possibly that is the point. Reminding people that the 'Linux desktop' actually has very little to do with Linux.

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