FreeBSD 8.4-BETA1 发布

FreeBSD是类UNIX操作系统，它基于加州伯克利大学的“4.4BSD-Lite”发行并带有一些“4.4BSD-Lite2”增强，面向 i386、amd64、IA-64、arm、MIPS、powerpc、ppc64、PC-98、UltraSPARC等平台。它还间接地基于 “386BSD”，此乃William Jolitz对加州伯克利大学的“Net/2”往i386系统上的移植，尽管如今只有极少的代码保留下来。FreeBSD被全世界的公司、因特网服务提供 商、科研人员、计算机专家、学生、家庭用户等用于他们的工作、教育、娱乐中。FreeBSD带有20000多个软件包，它们是预编译和打包好了、便于安装 的软件，并覆盖了广阔的应用领域：服务器软件、数据库和网页服务器、桌面软件、游戏、网络浏览器和商务软件，而这一切都是免费和易于安装的。

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).