FreeBSD 5.0

• First cut off of the 5.x Technology Branch

  • SMPng, sparc64, ia64, UFS extended attributes, ACLs, Mandatory Access Control, GEOM, GBDE, OpenPAM, ACPI, TIRPC, IPFW2, Firewire, UFS2, bgfsck, ufs snapshots, bluetooth, atapicam, devd, FAST_IPSEC, gcc 3.2, CardBus, devfs, ...

• Motivate stability, performance improvements

• Provide early access to consumers, product developers, etc.