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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
FreeBSD Project Announces FreeBSD
5.2
The FreeBSD Project announced the availability of FreeBSD 5.2, the latest
version of the project's powerful operating system. This latest release is the
culmination of three years of development on FreeBSD version 5, and includes
several widely-sought features:
- Out-of-the-box enterprise integration via Name Service Switching,
allowing
transparent implementation of FreeBSD in a directory-based authentication
environment.
- An NFS version 4 client is now included.
- Countless stability and performance improvements, such as fine-grained
network stack locking, are included.
- AMD's Opteron is now a fully-supported Tier 1 platform.
Building on the success of FreeBSD 5.1, FreeBSD 5.2 includes new features
and
incremental improvements in areas where FreeBSD already dominates, such as
network performance, stability and reliability. FreeBSD 5.2 ships with the
latest applications, and is ready for immediate deployment as a desktop or
server system for those users who are interested in the latest FreeBSD
technology.
"With this release, the technologies first showcased in the FreeBSD 5
releases
are demonstrating their potential for real-world users," says Scott Long,
FreeBSD release engineer. "I'm delighted that our hard work has been received
with so much excitement from our users."
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