FreeBSD 6.1 Operating System Released

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FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE Announcement

Date: Fri, 08 May 2006 18:40:04 -0700
From: Scott Long
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 6.1 Released

It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. This release is the next step in the development of the 6.X branch, delivering several performance improvements, many bugfixes, and a few new features. These include:

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      Addition of a keyboard multiplexer. This allows USB and PS/2 keyboards to coexist without any special options at boot.
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      Many fixes for filesystem stability. High load stress tests are now run successfully on a regular basis as part of the normal FreeBSD QA process.
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      Automatic configuration for man Bluetooth devices, as well as automatic support for running WiFi access points.
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      Addition of drivers for new ethernet and SAS and SATA RAID controllers.
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      BIND updated to 9.3.2
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      sendmail updated to 8.13.6

NOTE: It was discovered at the last minute that the errata notes that got packaged with the release are out of date. For a complete list of known problems, please see the online errata list, available at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.1R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.1R/errata.html

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng
Availability

FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE supports the i386, pc98, alpha, sparc64, amd64, powerpc, and ia64 architectures and can be installed directly over the net using bootable media or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for all architectures are available now.

Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies will be offering FreeBSD 6.1 based products:

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      FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/
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      Daemonnews, Inc. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html

If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images

announcement: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/announce.html