特别推荐：FreeBSD 7.0发布

7.0 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the 7-STABLE branch which introduces many new features along with many improvements to functionality present in the earlier branches. Some of the highlights: dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability shown by various database and other benchmarks; the ULE scheduler is vastly improved, providing improved performance and interactive response; experimental support for Sun's ZFS filesystem; gjournal can be used to set up journaled filesystems, gvirstor can be used as a virtualized storage provider; read-only support for the XFS filesystem; the Unionfs file system has been fixed...." Read the and for further details. Download (, ): (509MB, ), (499MB, ).

 

 

FreeBSD 团队非常高兴的宣布 FreeBSD 7.0 的发布。 这是FreeBSD 7稳定版的第一个版本，引进了大量的新特性和性能改进。
其中包括（但不限于）：

• SMPng
• ZFS 文件系统
• 为 10Gbps 网络进行了优化
• SCTP
• 支持无线连接
• 新的硬件架构
• 巨大的性能提升，某些个别情况下比上一代的 6.x版本高出 1500%。整体上比最新、性能最好的Linux版本（2.6.22 or 2.6.24） 高出 15%。
  本版本默认 4BSD scheduler；新的 ULE scheduler 将在 7.1版本中作为默认配置。
  引入了Sun's ZFS文件系统。
   Much improved wireless (802.11) support.
   X.Org 7.3,
     KDE 3.5.8,
     GNOME 2.20.2.
     GNU C compiler 4.2.1.
   freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64
  .........
  

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