FreeBSD 6.0 released

By Rayed

My web server is running FreeBSD 5.3 for the past 100 days without any problems. But 5.X isn’t as and fast as 4.X series, hope this will change with the new 6.0 release.

Some major improvment over 5.4:

  • Significant performance improvements to the filesystem and direct disk access layers of the OS. The filesystem is now multithreaded and can take full advantage of multiple CPU systems.
  • Expanded support for wireless networking adapters and new support for the WPA wireless security protocol.
  • Experimental support for the PowerPC platform.

Slashdot covered the story, and most of the feedback from FreeBSD 6.0 beta users was positive:

Whereas 5.x was about introducing the new architecture, 6.x is all about making it blindingly fast and stable.

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