FreeBSD 8.4-BETA1 發布

FreeBSD是類UNIX操作系統，它基于加州伯克利大學的“4.4BSD-Lite”發行并帶有一些“4.4BSD-Lite2”增強，面向 i386、amd64、IA-64、arm、MIPS、powerpc、ppc64、PC-98、UltraSPARC等平臺。它還間接地基于 “386BSD”，此乃William Jolitz對加州伯克利大學的“Net/2”往i386系統上的移植，盡管如今只有極少的代碼保留下來。FreeBSD被全世界的公司、因特網服務提供 商、科研人員、計算機專家、學生、家庭用戶等用于他們的工作、教育、娛樂中。FreeBSD帶有20000多個軟件包，它們是預編譯和打包好了、便于安裝 的軟件，并覆蓋了廣闊的應用領域：服務器軟件、數據庫和網頁服務器、桌面軟件、游戲、網絡瀏覽器和商務軟件，而這一切都是免費和易于安裝的。

Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first beta build of FreeBSD 8.4, in the project's legacy branch: " The first BETA build of the 8.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. Since the stable/8 branch is relatively mature we hope there will only be one BETA build for this release cycle. If testing does not turn up any show-stopper caliber problems the next test build will be RC1. The following known issues are present in 8.4-BETA1: due to a change in sshd, sshd does not look for authorized_keys2 in addition to authorized_keys, this will be fixed prior the next release; selecting 'All' on the 'Choose Distributions' screen attempts to install a DEBUG kernel which is not present in the image so the installation will fail." Read the rest of the release announcement which includes update instructions. Download: FreeBSD-8.4-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (720MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.4-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (601MB, SHA256).