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Add 6.0-R press release to site. This has already been submitted to PRWEB: http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20051104/bs_prweb/prweb306854_2 PR: www/88504 Submitted by: Seth Kingsley <sethk a-t offmyserver d-o-t com>
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Project Launches FreeBSD 6.0">
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<h3>FreeBSD raises the bar for open source operating systems.</h3>
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<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>
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Berkeley, CA November 4, 2005</p>
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<p>The FreeBSD Project announces the availability of FreeBSD 6.0, an open
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source operating system derived from BSD UNIX, which offers a powerful
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alternative to Linux, Solaris, and Windows. FreeBSD enables enterprise
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organizations to utilize open source technologies that focus on
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reliability, security, and scalability.</p>
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<p>"Yahoo! is impressed with the performance and stability of FreeBSD 6.0,"
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says David Filo, Yahoo! co-founder. Yahoo! is one of many enterprise
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companies that rely on the world-renowned stability and performance of the
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FreeBSD operating system.</p>
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<p>One of the new features in FreeBSD 6.0 is a multithreaded filesystem,
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which greatly improves data access times for local disks, RAID
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configurations, network filesystems, and SANs. Recent performance
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benchmarks show that FreeBSD 6.0 outperforms Linux in raw data
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throughput.</p>
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<p>Additionally, FreeBSD 6.0 extends support for wireless devices such as
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Intel Centrino and adds support for the popular new WPA wireless security
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protocol. Several improvements are incorporated into NDISulator, a
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component of the operating system that allows Windows network drivers to
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run natively under FreeBSD.</p>
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<p>FreeBSD now scales much more efficiently across multiple processor
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systems. Support for 8 or more processors, such as the new dual core AMD
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Opteron configurations, gives consumers a viable alternative against more
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expensive, proprietary hardware platforms and operating systems from IBM,
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HP, and Sun.</p>
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<h3>About the FreeBSD Project</h3>
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<p>The FreeBSD Project provides a free, open source operating system for
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several platforms, including Intel x86 and AMD64. FreeBSD is derived from
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BSD, the version of UNIX developed at UC Berkeley. The unencumbered BSD
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license permits modification and redistribution of the software while
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allowing an individual or company to retain intellectual property.</p>
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<p>For more information, please visit
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/">www.FreeBSD.org</a>.</p>
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<h3>Press Contact</h3>
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<p>For interviews or further information, contact: <a
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href="mailto:marketing@FreeBSD.org">marketing@FreeBSD.org</a>,
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+1-408-943-4100 ext 113; or The FreeBSD Foundation, +1-720-207-5142</p>
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