FreeBSD 6.0 An Open Source Operating System Alternative to Linux, Windows Released

Open Source Operating System is an Alternative to Linux, Windows

Nov. 7, 2005 10:00 AM

FreeBSD 6.0 has been released. In a statement on the company’s website, Scott Long of FreeBSD said, “ This release is the next step in delivering the high performance and enterprise features that have been under development in the FreeBSD 5.x series for that last several years.”

FreeBSD is an open source operating system, and is promoted as an alternative to Windows and Linux. Popular companies supporting this operating system include Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and SPARTA.

Some of the many changes since 5.4 include:

Significant performance improvements to the filesystem and direct disk access layers of the OS. The filesystem is now multithreaded and can take full advantage of multiple CPU systems.
Expanded support for wireless networking adapters and new support for the WPA wireless security protocol.
Experimental support for the PowerPC platform.

FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE supports the i386, pc98, alpha, sparc64, amd64, powerpc, and ia64 architectures and can be installed directly over the net using bootable media or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for all architectures are available now.

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FreeBSD 6.0 An Open Source Operating System Alternative to Linux, Windows Released

Enterprise Open Source Magazine News Desk wrote: FreeBSD 6.0 is now available. In a statement on the company's Web site, Scott Long of FreeBSD said, 'This release is the next step in delivering the high performance and enterprise features that have been under development in the FreeBSD 5.x series for that last several years.'

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