Download FreeBSD 4.10

FreeBSD descends from 386BSD which was a port to the i386 platform of BSD 4.3, a Unix version developed by the University of California Berkeley. FreeBSD development is overseen by The FreeBSD Project and version 4.10 has recently been declared stable. The announcement from release engineer Ken Smith looks like this:

I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE in October 2003 we have made conservative updates to a number of software programs in the base system, dealt with known security issues, and made many bug fixes.

For a complete list of new features, known problems, and late-breaking news, please see the release notes and errata list, available here:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.10R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.10R/errata.html

FreeBSD 4.10 will become the first “Errata Branch”. Release branches for previous versions of FreeBSD would only have critical security fixes applied. With FreeBSD 4.10 the scope of fixes will be expanded to include local Denial of Service fixes as well as other significant and well-tested fixes that may not represent security issues.

The current plans are for one more FreeBSD 4.X release which will be FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE. It is expected the upcoming FreeBSD 5.3 release will have reached the maturity level most users will be able to migrate to 5.X. Most developer resources continue to be devoted to the 5.X branch.

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/[break]The following downloads are ready:
i386 – Disc 1 (618MB)
i386 – Disc 2 (272MB)
i386 – Mini (217MB)
Alpha – Disk 1 (612MB)
Alpha – Disk 2 (316MB)
Alpha – Mini (224MB)