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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/press-rel-7.sgml,v 1.3 2003/11/04 20:51:27 stephane Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD 5.0 Press Release">
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<h3>FreeBSD Project announces FreeBSD 5.0</h3>
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<p><b>Berkeley, CA - January 20, 2003 - The FreeBSD Project</b> The
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FreeBSD Project announced today the availability of FreeBSD 5.0
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after almost three years of continuous development. The latest
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version of the project's powerful open source operating system
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includes several ground breaking features:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><b>Multiprocessor support</b> has been extended and enhanced.
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We support SMP on all platforms, and have the infrastructure in
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place for extensive performance improvements.</li>
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<li><b>Background filesystem checks</b> offer quicker start up in
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disaster situations.</li>
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<li><b>File system snapshots</b> permit administrators to
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duplicate file systems in real time.</li>
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<li><b>Experimental support for Mandatory Access Controls (MAC)</b>
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provides an extensible and flexible means for administrators to
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define system security policies.</li>
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<li><b>Kernel Schedulable Entities</b> implement a high-performance
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many-to-many multiprocessor threading model.</li>
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<li><b>Expanded hardware support</b> now includes hardware
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cryptographic acceleration, ACPI, Bluetooth, and FireWire.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The release also includes new, reimplemented, and incremental
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improvements in areas where FreeBSD already dominates, such as
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network performance, stability, and reliability.</p>
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<p><cite>"This release represents our largest engineering success to
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date."</cite>, says Murray Stokely, Vice President of Engineering
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at FreeBSD Mall Inc and member of the FreeBSD Release Engineering
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Team. <cite>" The new technologies present in FreeBSD 5.X will
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provide our customers with exciting new functionality without
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sacrificing our legendary reliability."</cite>
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<h3>About the FreeBSD Project</h3>
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<p>The FreeBSD Project provides a free UNIX-like operating system
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for the Intel-compatible, Alpha, and Sparc platforms, based on the
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industry-standard Berkeley Software Distribution. The FreeBSD
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Project includes several thousand developers from dozens of
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countries around the world, who funnel their work through a team
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of several hundred committers. FreeBSD is available for free on
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the Internet, and as a shrink-wrap product through many different
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retail vendors, listed at <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/vendors.html">www.FreeBSD.org/vendors.html</a>.
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For more information, please visit FreeBSD on the Web at <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/">www.FreeBSD.org</a>.</p>
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<h3>Press Contact</h3>
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<p><a href="mailto:press@FreeBSD.org">press@FreeBSD.org</a>, or phone
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1-925-674-0783</p>
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