FreeBSD stamt af van 386BSD welke een port naar het i386-platform is geweest van BSD 4.3, een Unix versie die door de universiteit van Californië Berkeley werd ontwikkeld. De ontwikkeling van FreeBSD wordt begeleid door The FreeBSD Project en men heeft onlangs versie 4.10 stable verklaard. De aankondiging van release engineer Ken Smith ziet er als volgt uit:
I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE in October 2003 we have made conservative updates to a number of software programs in the base system, dealt with known security issues, and made many bugfixes.
For a complete list of new features, known problems, and late-breaking news, please see the release notes and errata list, available here:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.10R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.10R/errata.html
FreeBSD 4.10 will become the first "Errata Branch". Release branches for previous versions of FreeBSD would only have critical security fixes applied. With FreeBSD 4.10 the scope of fixes will be expanded to include local Denial of Service fixes as well as other significant and well-tested fixes that may not represent security issues.
The current plans are for one more FreeBSD 4.X release which will be FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE. It is expected the upcoming FreeBSD 5.3 release will have reached the maturity level most users will be able to migrate to 5.X. Most developer resources continue to be devoted to the 5.X branch.
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/[break]De volgende downloads staan klaar:i386 - Disc 1 (618MB)
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