FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

Carl Gustavsson carl at thegoodone.mine.nu
Sun Jul 17 22:41:28 GMT 2005


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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