Hot! Development Release: FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3

FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system for the i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, powerpc, ppc64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's "4.4BSD-Lite" release, with some "4.4BSD-Lite2" enhancements. 

It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's "Net/2" to the i386, known as "386BSD", though very little of the 386BSD code remains. FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, researchers, computer professionals, students and home users all over the world in their work, education and recreation. 

FreeBSD comes with over 20,000 packages (pre-compiled software that is bundled for easy installation), covering a wide range of areas: from server software, databases and web servers, to desktop software, games, web browsers and business software - all free and easy to install.

New Development Release

Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third beta of FreeBSD 10.1: "The second beta build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. 

Changes between 10.1-BETA2 and 10.1-BETA3 include : 

• support for serial and null console has been added to the UEFI boot loader
• a potential panic triggered by referencing a device that has been renamed has been fixed in the cam(4) subsystem
• OpenPAM has been updated to the Ourouparia (20140912) release
• new sysctls have been added to vt(4) to enable or disable potentially dangerous key combinations (such as reboot, halt, and break to debugger)
• the mkimg(1) utility has been updated to allow creating empty partition entries...." 

 Release announcement.

 Download: 

• FreeBSD-10.1-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,666MB,SHA256), 
• FreeBSD-10.1-BETA3-i386-dvd1.iso (1,509MB, SHA256).

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