Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone Black peripherals are supported

Oct 10, 2016 21:00 GMT  ·  By

Today, October 10, 2016, the FreeBSD Foundation proudly announced the release and general availability of the FreeBSD 11.0 operating system based on the latest BSD and Open Source technologies.

FreeBSD 11.0 has been in development since March 2016, during which it received a total of four Beta builds and three Release Candidates. FreeBSD 11.0 packs a large number of new features and improvements, among which we can mention support for the open source RISC-V instruction set architecture, support for NUMA memory allocation and scheduler policies, as well as out-of-the-box support for Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 2, and Beaglebone Black peripherals.

"FreeBSD 11.0 represents years of hard work by volunteers in the FreeBSD community, developers employed by companies using FreeBSD, academics, and FreeBSD Foundation staff members and grant recipients," said Ed Maste, Director of Project Development, FreeBSD Foundation. "I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished and am confident FreeBSD 11.0 will provide an excellent choice in the world of open source operating systems."

Among other interesting features implemented in the FreeBSD 11.0 operating system, we can mention an up-to-date toolchain containing Clang 3.8.0, various improvements to network CPU affinity and scalability via Receive Side Scaling (RSS), move to BSD-licensed ELF binary tools, up to 40% performance improvement for current file serving apps thanks to a new asynchronous implementation of the sendfile(2) syscall, and bhyve guest OS support for Microsoft Windows Vista, 7, 8, Server 2012, and 10.

Download FreeBSD 11.0 now!