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Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:40:04 -0700
From: Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 6.0 Released It
is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. 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. 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.
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
release notes and errata list, available at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.0R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.0R/errata.html For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng Availability 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. Please
continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media from one of
our supporting vendors. The following companies will be offering
FreeBSD 6.0 based products: If
you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to use
it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images.
We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO
images, but they will at least be available from the following sites.
MD5 and SHA256 checksums for the release images are included at the
bottom of this message. Bittorrent The
FreeBSD project encourages the use of BitTorrent for distributing the
release ISO images. A collection of torrent files to download the
images is available at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/torrents/6.0-RELEASE FTP At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE available. FreeBSD
is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following
countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong,
Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Amylonia, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi
Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan,
Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to: ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on. More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html For
instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD
Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through for users
new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Acknowledgments Many
companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance
the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 6.0 including The
FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, Sentex
Communications, and SPARTA. The release engineering team for 6.0-RELEASE includes: |
