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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 16, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 24
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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
FreeBSD Foundation Announces
FreeBSD 5.1
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced the availability of FreeBSD 5.1, the
latest version of the FreeBSD Project's powerful operating system. This
release is the product of three years of development on FreeBSD version 5 and
includes many improved and widely-sought features:
- Experimental threading libraries provide 1:1 and M:N kernel support for
multithreaded applications, accelerating performance and allowing applications
to take full advantage of multiple CPUs.
- Expanded hardware support includes USB 2.0, IBM/Adaptec ServeRAID
controllers, USB Ethernet adapters, and Promise and Intel Serial ATA
controllers.
- Enhanced "jail" management, allowing one server to provide many different
"virtual machines" with reduced administrator workload.
- Support for Physical Address Extensions, allowing the use of up to 64GB of
RAM on supported x86 platforms.
- Experimental support for AMD's Opteron 64-bit platform.
Building on the success of FreeBSD 5.0, FreeBSD 5.1 provides additional
stability, reliability, and performance while delivering many of the
infrastructure improvements set out for the 5.x series. FreeBSD 5.1 ships with
the latest applications and tools, and is ready for immediate deployment as a
desktop or server system for those users who are interested in the latest
FreeBSD technology. For users tracking the mature 4.x release branch, FreeBSD
4.8 and the forthcoming FreeBSD 4.9 will continue to provide the absolute
highest stability and performance.
Obtaining FreeBSD
FreeBSD is distributed under the Berkeley Software Distribtuion License and
is available for no cost on the Internet from the FreeBSD Project page at www.FreeBSD.org. It is also available
as a shrink-wrap product through many retail vendors listed at www.FreeBSD.org/vendors.html.
About the FreeBSD Project
The FreeBSD Project provides a full 4.4BSD-Lite2 based operating system for
the x86, Itanium, Alpha and UltraSPARC platforms. The FreeBSD Project includes
several thousand developers from dozens of countries around the world who
funnel their work through a team of several hundred core developers. For more
information, please visit FreeBSD on the Web at www.FreeBSD.org.
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