FreeBSD是一份UNIX操作系统，它面向i386、IA-64、PC-98、Alpha/AXP及UltraSPARC平台。它基于加州伯克利大学的4.4 BSD-Lite发布，并带有一些4.4 BSD-Lite2增强。它还非直接地基于WilliamJolitz的port，这源于加州伯克利大学i386化的“Net/2”也即“386BSD”，尽管386BSD中只有非常少的代码遗留下来。FreeBSD被遍布全世界的公司、Internet服务提供商、研究人员、计算机专家、学生，以及家庭用户用于他们的工作、教学和娱乐之中。

Ken Smith has announced the release of FreeBSD 7.2: "TheFreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce theavailability of FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.1 andintroduces some new features. Some of the highlights: support for fullytransparent use of superpages for application memory; support formultiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for jails; csup(1) now supportsCVSMode to fetch a complete CVS repository; GNOME updated to 2.26, KDEupdated to 4.2.2; sparc64 now supports UltraSparc-III processors.FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, pc98,powerpc, and sparc64 architectures." Read the release announcement and release notes for a detailed list of changes. Download: 7.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,946MB, MD5, torrent), 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (2.009MB, MD5, torrent).

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