FreeBSD 11.0-BETA2 Was released Today

The development of the upcoming major version of FreeBSD, whose final release is scheduled for early September, continues at a fast pace. Although delayed by a week, the 11.0-BETA2 build was finally announced yesterday

FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system for the i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, powerpc, ppc64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's "4.4BSD-Lite" release, with some "4.4BSD-Lite2" enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's "Net/2" to the i386, known as "386BSD", though very little of the 386BSD code remains. FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, researchers, computer professionals, students and home users all over the world in their work, education and recreation. FreeBSD comes with over 20,000 packages (pre-compiled software that is bundled for easy installation), covering a wide range of areas: from server software, databases and web servers, to desktop software, games, web browsers and business software - all free and easy to install.


New FreeBSD development branch installation ISOs and virtual machine
disk images have been uploaded to the FTP mirrors.

As with any development branch, the installation snapshots are not
intended for use on production systems.  We do, however, encourage
testing on non-production systems as much as possible.

Please also consider installing the sysutils/panicmail port, which can
help in providing FreeBSD developers the necessary information regarding
system crashes.

See also the (incomplete) release notes which are still work-in-progress.

Download
FreeBSD-11.0-BETA2-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,479MB, SHA512),
FreeBSD-11.0-BETA2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,203MB, SHA512)