Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:41:19 +0200 From: Carl Gustavsson <carl@thegoodone.mine.nu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available Message-ID: <42DADE8F.8030903@thegoodone.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <42D79676.6040606@samsco.org> References: <42D79676.6040606@samsco.org>
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Scott Long wrote: > Announcement > ------------ > > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the > availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the > FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. > > FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 branch > than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from FreeBSD 4. Much of the work that has > gone into 6.0 development has focused on polishing and improving the > work from 5.x These changes include streamlining direct device access > in the kernel, providing a multi-threaded SMP-safe UFS/VFS filesystem > layer, implementing WPA and Host-AP 802.11 features, as well as > countless bugfixes and device driver improvements. Major updates and > improvements have been made to ACPI power and thermal management, ATA, > and many aspects of the network infrastructure. 32bit application > support for AMD64 is also greatly improved, as is compatiblity with > certain Athlon64 motherboards. This release is also the first to > feature experimental PowerPC support for the Macintosh G3 and G4 > platforms. Can anyone direct me to more information about the new WPA and Host-AP 802.11 features? / Carl
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