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<DIV>The first release candidate of <A
href="http://distrowatch.com/freebsd">FreeBSD</A> 6.1 has been released: "<SPAN
class=Quote>The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 6.1-RC1. It is meant to be a refinement of the 6-STABLE,
branch with few dramatic changes. A lot of bugfixes have been made, some drivers
have been updated, and some areas have been tweaked for better performance, etc.
but no large changes have been made to the basic architecture. This RC is late
in coming due to many more bugs being fixed, as well as a keyboard multiplexer
being added.</SPAN>" Read the full <A
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-April/016104.html">release
announcement</A> for further details. <A
href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">Download</A>
(i386, <A
href="http://ftp13.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.1/CHECKSUM.MD5">MD5</A>):
<A
href="ftp://ftp10.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.1/6.1-RC1-i386-disc1.iso">6.1-RC1-i386-disc1.iso</A>
(504MB) and <A
href="ftp://ftp4.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.1/6.1-RC1-i386-disc2.iso">6.1-RC1-i386-disc2.iso</A>
(575MB).</DIV></BODY></HTML>