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Simplicity Linux was a Devuan-based distribution with Cinnamon as the default desktop environment (prior to 2020 it was based on Puppy Linux and Xfce). It comes in three editions: Mini, Desktop and Gaming. The Mini edition features cloud-based software, the Desktop flavour offers a collection of general-purpose software, and the Gaming variant includes a launcher for Steam games.
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| 2005-04-05 |
NEW • Development Release: FreeBSD 5.4-RC1 |
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The first release candidate of FreeBSD 5.4 is now available for testing: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC1, the first Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. Much effort has been put into fixing a wide variety of problems identified in FreeBSD 5.3. It is important to check the 'Known Issues' section below. In particular two strictly local security issues came up after the RC1 builds had completed and were made available to mirror sites but before this announcement. We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified and worked out." Find more details in the release announcement. Download (i386): 5.4-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (537MB) and 5.4-RC1-i386-disc2.iso (624MB).
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| FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system for the i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, powerpc, ppc64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's "4.4BSD-Lite" release, with some "4.4BSD-Lite2" enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's "Net/2" to the i386, known as "386BSD", though very little of the 386BSD code remains. FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, researchers, computer professionals, students and home users all over the world in their work, education and recreation. FreeBSD comes with over 20,000 packages (pre-compiled software that is bundled for easy installation), covering a wide range of areas: from server software, databases and web servers, to desktop software, games, web browsers and business software - all free and easy to install.
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| 2023-11-20 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 14.0 |
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Colin Percival (the new Release Engineering Team Lead) has announced the release of FreeBSD 14.0. It is available for the amd64, aarch64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7 and riscv64 architectures. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/14 branch. Some of the highlights: OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.5p1; OpenSSL has been updated to version 3.0.12, a major upgrade from OpenSSL 1.1.1t in FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE; the bhyve hypervisor now supports TPM and GPU passthrough; FreeBSD supports up to 1024 cores on the amd64 and arm64 platforms; ZFS has been upgraded to OpenZFS release 2.2, providing significant performance improvements; it is now possible to perform background filesystem checks on UFS file systems running with journaled soft updates; experimental ZFS images are now available for AWS and Azure; the default congestion control mechanism for TCP is now CUBIC." For further information please see the release announcement and the release notes. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (1,087MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (886MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (935MB, SHA512). |
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| 2023-11-04 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 14.0-RC4 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the fourth release candidate for FreeBSD 14.0. This snapshot was not part of the original release schedule which means that the final release of FreeBSD 14.0 is now delayed by one week, to 14 November 2023. This late release candidate postpones the removal of the ISA and GIANT-locked drivers to FreeBSD 15 and it also addresses a couple of fixes: "The fourth RC build of the 14.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 14.0-RC3 includes: ISA and GIANT-locked driver removal has been delayed to FreeBSD 15 and system messages have been updated to reflect such; an update to OpenZFS correcting block cloning between encrypted and unencrypted datasets has been included; a fix for Hyper-V emulation within QEMU resulting in system crashes has been addressed. A list of changes since 13.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/14.0 release notes." Read the full release announcement for further details and upgrade instructions. Here are the download links of installation images for the amd64, i386 and aarch64 architectures: FreeBSD-14.0-RC4-amd64-disc1.iso (1,086MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC4-i386-disc1.iso (887MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC4-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (934MB). |
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| 2023-10-28 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 14.0-RC3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third (and likely last) release candidate for FreeBSD 14.0. The product's final release is scheduled for 7 November 2023. This release candidate adds support for the Realtek Killer E2600 Ethernet controller driver and upgrades OpenSSL to the recently-released version 3.0.12. "The third RC build of the 14.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 14.0-RC2 includes: test suite fixes; support for IUTF8 in (s)tty has been added; support for Realtek Killer E2600 has been added; several kernel TLS updates have been added; OpenSSL has been updated to version 3.0.12; other miscellaneous bug fixes and updates. A list of changes since 13.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/14.0 release notes." Continue to the full release announcement for more details and upgrade instructions. Here are the download links of installation images for the amd64, i386 and aarch64 architectures: FreeBSD-14.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso (1,086MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC3-i386-disc1.iso (886MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC3-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (936MB). |
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| 2023-10-21 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 14.0-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 14.0. The release process continues as scheduled, with a possible third release candidate expected one week from now and the FreeBSD 14.0 final on 7 November 2023. "The second RC build of the 14.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 14.0-RC1 includes: OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.5p1; OpenSSL has been updated to version 3.0.11; various VFS-related fixes; OpenZFS has been updated to zfs-2.2-release; support for ZFS-backed Azure images has been implemented; a crash with smartpqi(4) or mpi3mr(4) devices has been resolved; an issue building virtual machine images for GCE has been resolved; and various other miscellaneous fixes. A list of changes since 13.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/14.0 release notes." Read the complete release announcement which includes upgrade instructions. Here are the quick download links of installation images for the amd64, i386 and aarch64 architectures: FreeBSD-14.0-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (1,087MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (887MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC2-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (935MB). |
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| 2023-10-14 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 14.0-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the initial release candidate for FreeBSD 14.0, the project's first major release since version 13.0 delivered in April 2021. FreeBSD 14.0 is currently scheduled for final release on 7 November 2023. It is available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64 and riscv64 architectures. "The first RC build of the 14.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 14.0-BETA5 includes: a race condition in swap_pager_swapoff_object() had been fixed; various updates to the Linux KPI, 802.11, iwlwifi, and rtw88; other miscellaneous fixes." Some of the userland configuration changes in FreeBSD 14.0 include: "The default shell for the root user is now sh(1), which now has many features for interactive use; the default mail transport agent is now the Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma(8)), replacing sendmail(8); the mta_start_script configuration variable has been retired in rc.conf(5), along with the othermta startup script; the one-time password facility OPIE, opie(4), has been removed from the base system." Continue to the release announcement for further details and upgrade instructions. Download: FreeBSD-14.0-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (1,087MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (888MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC1-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (935MB). |
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| 2023-04-11 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 13.2 |
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Colin Percival has announced the release of FreeBSD 13.2, the latest stable version of the popular BSD-derived operating system that focuses on features, speed and stability: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE. This is the third release of the stable/13 branch. Some of the highlights: OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.2p1; OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1t; the bhyve hypervisor now supports more than 16 vCPUs in a guest; Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is now enabled for 64-bit executables by default; ZFS has been upgraded to OpenZFS release 2.1.9; it is now possible to take snapshots on UFS filesystems when running with journaled soft updates; the kernel wg(4) WireGuard driver is now available; the kernel netlink(4) network configuration protocol is now available. FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64 and riscv64 architectures. FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick." Please read the release announcement and the release notes for more information. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (1,023MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (842MB, SHA512). |
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| 2022-12-06 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 12.4 |
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Glen Barber has announced the release of FreeBSD 12.4, the fourth update to the project's legacy 12.x branch: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release of the stable/12 branch. Some of the highlights: the ena(4) kernel driver has been updated to 2.6.1; the if_epair(4) driver now allows multiple cores to be used to process traffic to improve performance; the unbound(8) utility has been updated to version 1.16.3; the telnetd(8) daemon has been deprecated; the tcpdump(1) utility now allow users to set a number on rules which will be exposed as part of the pflog header; OpenSSL has been updated to 1.1.1q; OpenSSH has been updated to 9.1p1; the LLVM toolchain suite has been updated to version 13.0.0; the dma(8) utility has been updated to snapshot 2022-01-27; the file(1) utility has been updated to version 5.43. FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures." See the release announcement and the release notes for further information. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-12.4-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (959MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (800MB, SHA512). |
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| 2022-11-12 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.4-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 12.4. According to the published released process, the RC2 might be followed by an RC3 (if needed), while the final release of FreeBSD 12.4 is planned on 5 December 2022. "The second RC build of the 12.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 12.1-RC1 includes: if_vxlan(4) - check the size of data available in mbuf before using them; ofed - allow using IPv6 address in rc_pingpong server; ssh - correct parse_cert_times case for hex 'to' time; ipfw - have NAT steal the TH_RES1 bit, instead of the TH_AE bit. A list of changes since 12.3-RELEASE is available in the releng/12.4 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 12.4-RELEASE cycle progresses." See the full release announcement for more details and upgrade instructions. Interested testers can download the amd64 and i386 installation ISO images from here: FreeBSD-12.4-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (958MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.4-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (801MB, SHA512). |
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| 2022-11-05 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.4-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 12.4, scheduled for final release on 5 December 2022: "The first RC build of the 12.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 12.1-BETA3 includes: a NULL pointer dereference that could lead to a system crash had been fixed; a fix to correctly implement pmap_page_is_mapped() on arm64 and riscv; a fix to tun(4) and tap(4) when destroying interfaces had been added; a fix to krping to notify sleeping threads of device removal had been added; several updates to mlx5core, mlx5en(4), and mlx5ib(4); several fixes in libusb(3) and xhci(4) have been added; several SCTP and TCP fixes have been added. A list of changes since 12.3-RELEASE is available in the releng/12.4 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 12.4-RELEASE cycle progresses." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Quick links to download the amd64 and i386 installation ISO images: FreeBSD-12.4-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (958MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.4-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (800MB, SHA512). |
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