FreeBSD

FreeBSD Description

FreeBSD is an open source and advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon 64, and EM64T), IA-64, PC-98, Alpha/AXP and UltraSPARC architectures.This FreeBSD project is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley.FreeBSD offers advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features today which are still missing in other operating systems, even some of the best commercial ones.FreeBSD is distributed as installable ISO images, supporting the 32-bit, 64-bit, ia64, PowerPC, and SPARC64 architectures. What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]GCC is no longer installed by default on architectures where clang 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 has been replaced with bmake, obtained from the NetBSD Project.pkg is now the default package management utility.pkg_add(1), pkg_delete, 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. �.You can free download FreeBSD from Softpedia now.