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FreeBSD 10.2 Beta 1 Now Ready for Download and Testing

A new development version for FreeBSD is out

Jul 13, 2015 14:23 GMT  ·  By
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FreeBSD, an operating system for x86, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98, and UltraSPARC architectures, has been upgraded to version 10.2 Beta 1 and it's available for download and testing.

The FreeBSD developers have upgraded the operating system and it looks like a new development cycle is going to close pretty soon. Sure, it's not a big leap like the move from 9.x to 10.x, but it's still an upgrade that's worth having.

"The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites," reads the official website.

If you have an older version of FreeBSD already installed, you can upgrade. Just enter this command in a terminal, although you have to remember that it's not a stable version and problems might still exist.

code
freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.2-BETA1
freebsd-update install
shutdown -r now
The official changelog comes with a complete list of instructions for various problems that can occur during the upgrade process. You can download FreeBSD 10.2 Beta 1 right now from Softpedia. Do keep in mind that this is not Linux, so things will work a little bit differently from what you would expect.