The upcoming open source FreeBSD release will see a major routing rewrite for parallel power.
August 21, 2009
By Sean Michael Kerner
Though the open source FreeBSD operating system has changed in many aspects over the last 16 years of its life, one item that has remained relatively static is its underlying network routing architecture.
No more: It's getting an overhaul with the upcoming FreeBSD 8.0 release.
FreeBSD 8.0, due out next month*, will include a new routing architecture that takes advantage of parallel processing capabilities. According to its developers, the update will provide FreeBSD 8.0 with a faster more advanced routing architecture than the legacy architecture.
It's an important change for FreeBSD, which has emerged as a key open source operating system for networking vendors, with players like Juniper, Coyote Point, Blue Coat and others offering their own network operating systems that are based on FreeBSD.
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*) Към момента се очаква крайната версия на FreeBSD 8 да е готова на 5 ноември.
