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FreeBSD for Not Yet Techies

As of February 9, 2006 beta releases of FreeBSD 5.5 and
FreeBSD 6.1 are available. I don't quite understand
the reason for two separate beta releases at the same time,
but maybe that's just me.

Anyway, that makes FreeBSD 5.4 and FreeBSD 6.0
(released on November 4, 2005) the
current versions. Apparently it does depend on which
platform (that is, operating system), you're using.

Developers are now working on 7x series.

FreeBSD includes the following features:

Merged virtual memory and filesystem buffer cache

Compatibility modules

Soft Updates

File system snapshots

Support for IP Security (IPsec)

Support for IPv6

Multi-threaded SMP architecture

M:N application threading via pthreads

Netgraph pluggable network stack

TrustedBSD MAC Framework extensible kernel security

GEOM pluggable storage layer

GEOM-Based Disk Encryption (GBDE)

Kernel Queues

Accept Filters

Security features include:

Kernel support for stateful IP firewalling

IP proxy gateways

Access control lists

Mandatory access control

Jail-based virtual hosting

Cryptographically protected storage

Strong partitioning of network segments

Construction of secure pipelines for information scrubbing and information flow control

Support for encryption software, secure shells, Kerberos authentication

You can learn more at:

FreeBSD Foundation
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