6px;" title="FreeBSD Duiveltje" alt="FreeBSD Duiveltje"> reminder wist ons als eerste te vertellen dat gisteren versie 5.3 van FreeBSD uitgekomen is. In de officiële aankondiging liet Scott Long weten dat "This release marks a milestone in the FreeBSD 5.x series and the beginning of the 5-STABLE branch of releases." De volledige release notes voor de verschillende platformen zijn op deze pagina terug te vinden, maar dit zijn de belangrijkste veranderingen:
Some of the many changes since 5.2.1 include:
- A binary compatibility interface has been introduced for the i386 platform that allows running Microsoft Windows NDIS network drivers natively in the kernel.
- The network and socket subsystems are now multi-threaded and reentrant. This allows for much better use of SMP parallelism when processing and forwarding local and remote network traffic.
- The development environment has been updated to GCC 3.4.2, Binutils 2.15, and GDB 6.1
- The choices for graphical environments have been updated to include X.org 6.7, Gnome 2.6.2 and KDE 3.3.0.