An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8 stable release. Some of the highlights: Xen DomU support, network stack virtualization, stack-smashing protection, TTY layer rewrite, much improved ZFS v13, a new USB stack, multicast updates including IGMPv3, vimage &mdash; a new virtualization container, Fedora 10 Linux binary compatibility to run Linux software such as Flash 10 and others, trusted BSD MAC (Mandatory Access Control), and rewritten NFS client/server introducing NFSv4. Inclusion of improved device mmap() extensions will allow the technical implementation of a 64-bit Nvidia display driver for the x86-64 platform. The GNOME desktop environment has been upgraded to 2.26.3, KDE to 4.3.1, and Firefox to 3.5.5. There is also an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes in FreeBSD 8.0, including a screenshot tour, upgrade instructions are posted here. You can grab the latest version from FreeBSD from the mirrors (main ftp server) or via BitTorrent. Please consider making a donation and help us to spread the word by tweeting and blogging about the drive and release."<p><a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/09/11/26/1843233/FreeBSD-80-Releas ed?from=rss"><img src="http://bsd.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0 &sid=09/11/26/1843233"></a></p><p><a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/09/11/26/1843233/FreeBSD-80-Releas ed?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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