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Ken Smith from the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the released version 7.3 for download. The new FreeBSD comes with updated ZFS and a re-worked bootloader.

The new version of OpenSSH serves developers as a feature and bugfix release.

Debian developer Alexander Reichle-Schmehl presented Debian GNU/kFreeBSD at the Open Source Forum at CeBIT. The FreeBSD port should become an official part of the upcoming Debian version 6.0 free distro.

The project around the free Linux distro Debian will make a guest appearance at the Cebit 2010 on the Univention GmbH stand in Hall 2, booth B36.

PC-BSD, the FreeBSD-based free desktop platform, is available in version 8.0.

Glsof-Queries is a GUI for the lsof (list open files) UNIX command with many query options. After a complete rework the open source tool is now available in version 1.0.0.

The BSD Router Project (BSDRP) has released version 0.32 of its free embedded router distribution.

The FreeNAS project had discussed whether the free storage systems should use BSD or Linux in the future. The result is that both variants will now be available.

The FreeBSD project has released its 8.0 version of the free UNIX operating system, thereby starting a new stable branch.