FreeBSD 8.4 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 release of FreeBSD 8.4, the new production release of the project's legacy 8.x branch: " The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.3 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: GNOME version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.10.1; feature flags 5,000 version of the ZFS filesystem; support for all shipping LSI storage controllers. FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE is now available for the amd64 and i386 architectures. Images for the pc98 architecture should be available within the next 24 hours. FreeBSD 8.4 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network." See the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download links: FreeBSD-8.4-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,626MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.4-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,323MB, SHA256).