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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:29:19 -0500
From: Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 6.2 Released
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. This release continues the
development of the 6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability
improvements, many bug fixes and new features. Some of the highlights:
- freebsd-update(8) provides officially supported binary
updates for security fixes and errata patches
- Experimental support for CAPP security event auditing
- OpenBSM audit command line tool suite and library
- KDE updated to 3.5.4, GNOME updated to 2.16.1
- csup(1) integrated cvsup client now included
- Disk integrity protection and authentication added to geli(4)
- New amdsmb(4), enc(4) ipmi(4), nfsmb(4), stge(4) drivers
- IPFW(4) packet tagging
- Linux emulation support for sysfs
- BIND updated to 9.3.3
- Many driver updates including em(4), arcmsr(4), ath(4), bce
(4), ata(4), and iwi(4)
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
online release notes and errata list, available at:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/errata.html
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities,
please see:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
Availability
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FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is now available for the alpha, amd64, i386, ia64,
pc98, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures. It can be installed from
bootable ISO images or over the network; the required files can be
downloaded via FTP or BitTorrent as described in the sections below.
While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all architectures,
they will all generally contain the more common ones, such as i386 and
amd64.
MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO images are included at the
bottom of this message.
The contents of the ISO images provided as part of the release has
changed for most of the architectures. Using the i386 architecture as
an example, there are ISO images named "bootonly", "disc1", "disc2",
and "docs". The "bootonly" image is suitable for booting a machine to
do a network based installation using FTP or NFS. The "disc1" and
"disc2" images are used to do a full installation that includes a basic
set of packages and does not require network access to an FTP or NFS
server during the installation. In addition, "disc1" supports booting
into a "live CD-based filesystem" and system rescue mode. The "docs"
image has all of the documentation for all supported languages. Most
people will find that "disc1" and "disc2" are all that are needed.
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM from several
vendors. Two of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 6.2-based
products are:
~ FreeBSD Mall, Inc.http://www.freebsdmall.com/
~ Daemonnews, Inc. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html
BitTorrent
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6.2-RELEASE ISOs are available via BitTorrent. A collection of torrent
files to download the images is available at:
http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/
FTP
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At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD
6.2-RELEASE available.
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp7.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.at.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp2.ch.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.cn.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.ee.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp2.fr.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp2.ie.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp2.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp1.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp2.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp5.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
ftp://ftp13.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the
following countries and territories: Argentina, Australia, Brazil,
Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan,
Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic,
Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United
Kingdom.
Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional
mirror(s) first by going to:
ftp://ftp..FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.
More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html
For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The
FreeBSD H
