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FreeBSD 10.0 Beta 4 Is Now Ready for Testing

A new development version for the FreeBSD 10.0 branch has been released

Dec 4, 2013 15:37 GMT  ·  By
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FreeBSD 10.0 Beta 4, an operating system for x86, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98, and UltraSPARC architectures, is now available for download and testing.

The developers have advised users that, on systems running FreeBSD 10.0 BETA1 (and only systems running 10.0-BETA1), they have to run the following command before using freebsd-update:

sed -i '' -e 's/%@/%~@/' /usr/sbin/freebsd-update

Highlights of FreeBSD 10.0 Beta 4:

• Preliminary support has been added for RTL8106E, RTL8168G, RTL8168GU, RTL8411B, and RTL8168EP; • Fingerprint checking has been added in pkg(8) for FreeBSD-provided binary packages; • The WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT build option has been removed;

The official changelog comes with a complete list of fixes and modifications. Download FreeBSD 10.0 Beta 4 right now from Softpedia.

Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.