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 9.3

Questa versione contiene (in Inglese):

• The zfs(8) filesystem has been updated to support the bookmarks feature.
• The uname(1) utility has been updated to include the -U and -K flags, which print the __FreeBSD_version for the running userland and kernel, respectively.
• The fetch(3) library has been updated to support SNI (Server Name Identification), allowing to use virtual hosts on HTTPS.
• Several updates to gcc(1) have been imported from Google.
• The hastctl(8) utility has been updated to output the current queue sizes.
• The protect(1) command has been added, which allows exempting processes from being killed when swap is exhausted.
• The etcupdate(8) utility, a tool for managing updates to files in /etc, has been merged from head/.
• A new shared library directory, /usr/lib/private, has been added for internal-use shared libraries.
• OpenPAM has been updated to Nummularia (20130907).
• A new flag, “onifconsole” has been added to /etc/ttys. This allows the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent to off.
• Sendmail has been updated to version 8.14.9.
• BIND has been updated to version 9.9.5.
• The xz(1) utility has been updated to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.
• OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.6p1.
• OpenSSL has been updated to version 0.9.8za.

Risorse

La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:

• 32 bit (1,5GB): http://ftp4.fr.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/FreeBSD-9.3-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso
• 64 bit (1,7GB): http://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/FreeBSD-9.3-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso

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

Screenshot

FreeBSD 9.1: Desktop

Conclusioni

Si tratta di un nuovo aggiornamento del ramo 9, tuttavia il server X ha subito un passaggio importante a livello di kernel che potrebbe causare dei problemi rispetto alle versioni precedenti