FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 released

FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 has been released:

“The ports team has gotten the release package sets built for most of the architectures (sparc64 is still a long way off) so we have begun including the pre-built packages on the ISOs. Even a very basic post-build test turned up one latent bug in sysinstall, and once that was fixed a more extensive test (load both kde and gnome) turned up two more latent bugs. The 7.0-RC1 builds have one of the three bugs fixed in them. The other two bugs aren’t fatal to installs on 7.0-RC1 (they were fatal to installs on 6.3-RC2) and we have more 7.0-RCs coming so I went ahead with making 7.0-RC1 available as-is.”

Read the whole release message here.

For those not too familiar with FreeBSD 7.0, have a look at these pages to see why we’re so excited about version 7.0:

http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd7.html
http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf