Everyday is a Winding Road

Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:40:04 -0700
From: Scott Long
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 6.0 Released

It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. This release is the next step in delivering the high performance and enterprise features that have been under development in the FreeBSD 5.x series for that last several years. Some of the many changes since 5.4 include:

• Significant performance improvements to the filesystem and direct disk access layers of the OS. The filesystem is now multithreaded and can take full advantage of multiple CPU systems.
  
• Expanded support for wireless networking adapters and new support for the WPA wireless security protocol.
  
• Experimental support for the PowerPC platform.

Availability:
FreeBSD 6.0-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.



Homepage and more info here:
http://www.freebsd.org/

Download all CD Iso's (i386)from here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/6.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/6.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/6.0-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/CHECKSUM.MD5
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/CHECKSUM.SHA256

Download all CD Iso's (AMD64)from here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/6.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/6.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/6.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc2.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/CHECKSUM.MD5
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/CHECKSUM.SHA256

Download all CD Iso's (ia64)from here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/6.0-RELEASE-ia64-bootonly.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/6.0-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/6.0-RELEASE-ia64-disc2.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/6.0-RELEASE-ia64-livefs.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/CHECKSUM.MD5
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/CHECKSUM.SHA256