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FreeBSD 9.2, FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 4 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the release of FreeBSD 9.2. FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE has ZFS TRIM SSD support, ZFS LZ4 compression support, DTrace hooks and VirtIO drivers as part of the default kernel configuration, unmapped I/O support, and numerous other minor features. FreeBSD also announced FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 4 on the same day, which is the next major feature release of the open-source BSD operating system."

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  1. Re:FreeBSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Shaddup. Your embarrassing the rest of us linux users. Time to grow up sonny.

  2. Re:it's dead, Jim by smash · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thanks. The less noobs like yourself that use it, the less of a target the OS will be. I've been happily running internet facing stuff on FreeBSD since 2001, and it's been a pleasant change from the chaos that is Linux development and distribution upgrade.

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  3. Re:it's dead, Jim by icebike · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The less noobs like yourself that use it, the less of a target the OS will be. .

    Hmmm, that sounds the the Bill Gates theory of OS vulnerability. Popular OSs get broken into not because they are vulnerable but just because they are popular.

    I would have thought someone using FreeBSD would have a more enlightened understanding of security,
    and what makes one OS a target and another a brick wall.

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