2005-07-15 Development Release: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1
The FreeBSD 6 release cycle is now officially under way: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 6.0 release cycle. FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 branch than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from FreeBSD 4. Much of the work that has gone into 6.0 development has focused on polishing and improving the work from 5.x. These changes include streamlining direct device access in the kernel, providing a multi-threaded SMP-safe UFS/VFS file system layer, implementing WPA and Host-AP 802.11 features, as well as countless bugfixes and device driver improvements." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (i386, MD5): 6.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (447MB) and 6.0-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso (141MB).
streamlining direct device access in the kernel, providing a multi-threaded SMP-safe UFS/VFS file system layer, implementing WPA and Host-AP 802.11 features, as well as countless bugfixes and device driver improvements