FreeBSD

FreeBSD è una distribuzione basata su BSD e predisposta per un utilizzo su server, desktop e dispositivi embedded. Supporta diverse architetture di processori: i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, powerpc, ppc64, PC-98 e UltraSPARC

Versione 10.0

Questa versione contiene:

• GCC is no longer installed by default on architectures where clang(1) is the default compiler.
• Unbound has been imported to the base system as the local caching DNS resolver.
• BIND has been removed from the base system.
• make(1) has been replaced with bmake(1), obtained from the NetBSD Project.
• pkg(7) is now the default package management utility.
• pkg_add(1), pkg_delete(1), and related tools have been removed.
• Major enhancements in virtualization, including the addition of bhyve(8), virtio(4), and native paravirtualized drivers providing support for FreeBSD as a guest operating system on Microsoft Hyper-V.
• TRIM support for Solid State Drives has been added to ZFS.
• Support for the high-performance LZ4 compression algorithm has been added to ZFS.

Risorse

La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:

• 32 bit (2,2GB): http://ftp4.se.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/10.0/FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso
• 64 bit (2,4GB): http://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/os/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/10.0/FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso

Il sito web della distribuzione è: http://www.freebsd.org/

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Conclusioni

Questo nuovo ramo supporta queste architetture:  amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 e sparc64