Berkeley, CA - January 17, 2003 - The FreeBSD Project The + FreeBSD Project announced today the availability of FreeBSD 5.0 + after almost three years of continuous development. The latest + version of the project's powerful open source operating system + includes several ground breaking features:
+ +The release also includes new, reimplemented, and incremental + improvements in areas where FreeBSD already dominates, such as + network performance, stability, and reliability.
+ +"This release represents our largest engineering success to + date.", says Murray Stokely, Vice President of Engineering + at FreeBSD Mall Inc and member of the FreeBSD Release Engineering + Team. " The new technologies present in FreeBSD 5.X will + provide our customers with exciting new functionality without + sacrificing our legendary reliability." + +
The FreeBSD Project provides a free UNIX-like operating system + for the Intel-compatible, Alpha, and Sparc platforms, based on the + industry-standard Berkeley Software Distribution. The FreeBSD + Project includes several thousand developers from dozens of + countries around the world, who funnel their work through a team + of several hundred committers. FreeBSD is available for free on + the Internet, and as a shrink-wrap product through many different + retail vendors, listed at www.FreeBSD.org/vendors.html. + For more information, please visit FreeBSD on the Web at www.FreeBSD.org.
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