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+-   FreeBSD 8.0 Released on Thursday November 26, @08:30AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 26, @08:30AM
An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8 stable release. Some of the highlights: Xen DomU support, network stack virtualization, stack-smashing protection, TTY layer rewrite, much improved ZFS v13, a new USB stack, multicast updates including IGMPv3, vimage — a new virtualization container, Fedora 10 Linux binary compatibility to run Linux software such as Flash 10 and others, trusted BSD MAC (Mandatory Access Control), and rewritten NFS client/server introducing NFSv4. Inclusion of improved device mmap() extensions will allow the technical implementation of a 64-bit Nvidia display driver for the x86-64 platform. The GNOME desktop environment has been upgraded to 2.26.3, KDE to 4.3.1, and Firefox to 3.5.5.

There is also an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes in FreeBSD 8.0, including a screenshot tour, upgrade instructions are posted here.

You can grab the latest version from FreeBSD from the mirrors (main ftp server) or via BitTorrent. Please consider making a donation and help us to spread the word by tweeting and blogging about the drive and release."
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Comments: 1 +-   Wal-Mart, Amazon Battle for Online Retail's Future on Tuesday November 24, @07:53AM Hugh Pickens

Submitted by Hugh Pickens on Tuesday November 24, @07:53AM
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that Amazon and Wal-Mart are waging an price war for the future of online retailing that is spreading through product areas like books, movies, toys and electronics. The tussle began last month over which company had the lowest prices on the most anticipated new books and DVDs this fall but has now spread to select video game consoles, mobile phones, even to the humble Easy-Bake Oven. “It’s not about the prices of books and movies anymore. There is a bigger battle being fought,” said Fiona Dias, executive vice president at GSI Commerce, which manages the Web sites of large retailers. “The price-sniping by Wal-Mart is part of a greater strategic plan. They are just not going to cede their business to Amazon.” Wal-Mart, with $405 billion in sales last year, dominates by offering affordable prices to Middle America in its 4,000 stores while Amazon with $20 billion in sales, caters mostly to affluent urbanites who would rather click with their mouse than push around a cart. But Amazon is expanding its slice of the retail pie at an alarming rate with Amazon sales shooting up 28 percent in the third quarter of this year while sales in Amazon’s electronics and general merchandise business are up 44 percent. “We have to put our foot down and refuse to let them grow more powerful,” says Dias. “I applaud Wal-Mart. It’s about time multichannel retailers stood up and refused to let their business go away.”"
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