FreeBSD Project Announces FreeBSD 4.0; Latest Release Offers IPv6, IPSec And Other Enhancements For Internet And Open Source Developers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). Spring 2000 CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2000 The FreeBSD Project, considered to be at the forefront of open source operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. technology in the Internet infrastructure and open source computing arenas, announced the release of FreeBSD 4.0. In addition to being a mature operating system with UC Berkeley academic roots, FreeBSD is hailed for its clean and flexible code base which can be easily modified, extended, or replaced by third parties without restriction. The FreeBSD operating system is used by high traffic sites such as Yahoo! and Microsoft's Hotmail as well as in products from Apple and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . FreeBSD 4.0 offers the latest operating system enhancements and contains a number of significant advancements over FreeBSD 3.4. Key enhancements to FreeBSD 4.0 include the IPv6 and IPSec (for both IPv4 and IPv6) implementations from the KAME Project
Other new features include:
-- OpenSSL and OpenSSH integrated into the base system
-- Jail(2)("chroot(2) on steroids") to help build secure environments
-- NFS bug fixes and performance improvements
-- Many bug fixes and performance improvements to the VM subsystem
-- Netware file and client connection support
-- GCC upgraded to 2.95.2 as the base compiler
-- Better support for laptops
-- More complete threads library
For release notes please see
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.0R/notes.html.
Availability FreeBSD 4.0 can be ordered on CD from BSDi's FreeBSD Mall (www.freebsdmall.com), where it is shipping on a 4 CD set. Discs are available for FreeBSD for the Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. As usual, the installation disc of the official FreeBSD distribution for both architectures will also be available via anonymous FTP An FTP site on the Internet that contains files that can be downloaded by anyone. The anonymous FTP directory is isolated from the rest of the system and will generally not accept uploads from users. . Even though the FreeBSD Project makes its installation CDs freely available, it also hopes that users continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing one of its official CD releases from the FreeBSD Mall. A portion of each sale goes to support FreeBSD's development and general infrastructure. About the FreeBSD Project FreeBSD is a popular open source operating system developed by the FreeBSD Project and its worldwide team, consisting of more than 5,000 developers funneling their work to the more than 200 "committer" developers who have "write access" to FreeBSD's central code base. It is available free of charge from ftp FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to .freebsd.org and also distributed as a shrink-wrapped software product through CompUSA, Fry's, Borders, Ingram, FreeBSDmall.com and others. FreeBSD includes thousands of ported applications, including the most popular Web, Internet and E-mail applications. FreeBSD is distributed under the Berkeley Software Distribution (operating system) Berkeley Software Distribution - (BSD) A family of Unix versions developed by Bill Joy and others at the University of California at Berkeley, originally for the DEC VAX and PDP-11 computers, and subsequently ported to almost all modern general-purpose computers. license, which means that it can be copied and modified freely without commercial restriction. For more information about the FreeBSD Project, visit www.freebsd.org. About Berkeley Software Design, Inc (company) Berkeley Software Design, Inc - (BSDI) A company that sells BSD/OS, a commercial version of Berkeley Standard Distribution Unix, networking, and Internet technologies originally developed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at . (BSDi) Leading BSD developers founded Berkeley Software Design, Inc. in 1991 to commercialize BSD technologies and to continue the Berkeley Unix tradition of robust, reliable and extremely secure Internet operating systems for network computing. BSDi recently acquired Walnut Creek CDROM Walnut Creek CDROM (Walnut Creek, California) was an early provider of freeware, shareware and free software on CD-ROMs. The company was founded in August 1991 by Bob Bruce and was one of the first commercial distributors of free software on CD-ROMs. and is the world's leading supplier of advanced Internet operating system technology for the Internet infrastructure. Contact BSDi at info@bsdi.com or at www.bsdi.com or call 719/593-9445 (toll free: 800/800-4273). |
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