FreeBSD 8.0 Released

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."

Comments

Re:Awesome!

[hairyfeet]

How is asking a couple of questions flamebait? I'm really getting sick of every post that doesn't read like a fucking press release getting modded flamebait or troll by fanboy douchebags. It has gotten to the point you have to turn off all the filters and have to put up with the nigger and faggot posts just to read anything on Slashdot that isn't "boy, isn't product x wonderful! Gee, it sure is!"

If you can show me a large BSD deployment at a major company (And NO Apple is NOT BSD! It is a proprietary locked down OS that uses some BSD underpinnings. You might as well call Windows BSD by that definition) then I will be happy to take back what I said, but frankly I've never heard of it. The only time I HAVE heard of BSD being deployed is EXACTLY like I wrote-routers,pbx systems, etc. Nice large locked down network appliances.

So mark flamebait ALL you want, fanboys, that don't make 2+2 = 5. Compared to even Linux BSD adoption for desktops has to be pretty damned tiny. So all of my questions were legitimate-can they keep up development pace, can they keep people motivated with such a tiny userbase, is support in the form of $$$ rolling in in enough quantities to keep them from having to quit to get day jobs, is there any major corporations bankrolling them like Redhat is doing as far as R&D? So I'm sorry if it hurt your wittle feelings that I dared to point out the inherent problems that comes with having a tiny niche. Just remember there are still those out there trying to build on the Amiga, that don't make it any less of a corpse.