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FreeBSD 6.4 Stable Launched

// November 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // BSD, FreeBSD, General, Technology

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE. FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures.

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At this time 6.4-RELEASE is expected to be the last of the 6-STABLE releases. Some of the highlights:

  • New and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client
  • Support for the Camellia cipher
  • boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices with GPT-enabled BIOSes
  • DVD install ISO images for amd64/i386
  • KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3
  • Updates for BIND, sendmail, OpenPAM, and others

PC-BSD is a free operating system with ease of use in mind. Like any modern system, you can listen to your favorite music, watch your movies, work with office documents and install your favorite applications with a setup wizard at a click.

View The Entire FreeBSD 6.4 Release Announcement.

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