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Another look at FreeBSD 8

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

A customer recently linked us to a blog post (http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html) that gives a really good look at what there is to come in the up-and-coming version 8 of the FreeBSD operating system. It looks like the FreeBSD developers have been busy and there are a number of new features which caught our eye.
First, as a [...]

FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

The FreeBSD release team announced the availability of 7.2-RELEASE on May 4.  We’ve loaded it in our system and its now available for new VPS setups.
Official announcement:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/announce.html
Highlights:

support for fully transparent use of superpages for application memory
support for multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for jails
csup(1) now supports CVSMode to fetch a complete CVS repository
Gnome updated to [...]

FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

In the last few days, the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team finalized 7.1-RELEASE and it is now available for donwload.  We are now also offering the option for 7.1-RELEASE on new VPS setups.  It is listed as an option in the signup process (along with 6.3 and 7.0).
Release Announcement

The ULE scheduler is now the default [...]

A Sneak Peak at FreeBSD 8

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Along with the release of FreeBSD 7 last year came the birth of FreeBSD 8 in the development stage. Its planned release is the 2nd quarter of 2009, but here is a quick overview of what we know is in the works for the new version.
(1) A rewrite of the TTY layer (traditional UNIX [...]