FreeBSD 6.0 Heads Out the Door

The FreeBSD Project on Friday heralded the 6.0 release of its venerable Unix based operating system. FreeBSD 6.0 brings to the table a number of improvements over version 5, including a multithreaded filesystem to speed up disk access, and expanded support for wireless networking and the WPA protocol.

"This release is the next step in delivering the high performance and enterprise features that have been under development in the FreeBSD 5.x series for that last several years," said developer Scott Long. FreeBSD 6.0 is available for a number of different platforms including Intel, AMD64 and, for the first time, Power PC.

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