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FreeBSD Project Releases FreeBSD 6.0
The FreeBSD Project released FreeBSD 6.0, an open source operating system derived
from BSD UNIX. According to the announcement, FreeBSD 6.0 helps organizations
utilize open source technologies that focus on reliability, security, and scalability.
A new feature in FreeBSD 6.0 is a multithreaded file system that improves data
access times for local disks, RAID configurations, network file systems, and
SANs. FreeBSD 6.0 also extends support for wireless devices and adds supports
for the WPA wireless security protocol. FreeBSD also scales more efficiently
across multiple processor systems.
For more information, visit: http://www.FreeBSD.org.
Levanta Releases MapFS Code
Levanta recently released its MapFS code to the open source community. According
to the company, MapFS is a virtual file system that simplifies data sharing
between multiple Linux machines connected to a shared storage medium (SAN/NAS/Mainframe
DASD). As a Linux kernel-loadable module, MapFS has been developed under the
GPL but is now being available on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mapfs)
and on Levantaŭs Web site (http://www.levanta.com/mapfs/).
Linux systems with MapFS can provide sharing of read-only file systems while
also allowing clients of the read-only file system to write to their own data
stores. Files can be on a read-only persistent repository file system or on
a writable persistent overlay file system.
For more information, visit: http://www.levanta.com.
Data Protection Solutions Introduces EzBackup-sa
Data Protection Solutions (DPS), a provider of disk-to-disk (D2D) mirroring,
backup, and restore solutions, released a Linux version of EzBackup-sa.
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