Free BSD 8.0 i386 DVD release starts off the new 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.X and introduces many new features. Free BSD 8.0's network stack offers multiprocessing optimizations: a revised link layer subsystem, per-CPU flow cache, multi queue transmit support, and significant UDP and TCP protocol scalability improvements. Zero-copy buffer extensions to BPF improve high volume packet capture performance.

About Free BSD

FreeBSD is a UNiX-like operating system for the i386, IA-64, PC-98, Alpha/AXP, and UltraSPARC platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's "4.4BSD-Lite" release, with some "4.4BSD-Lite2" enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's "Net/2" to the i386, known as "386BSD", though very little of the 386BSD code remains. FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, researchers, computer professionals, students and home users all over the world in their work, education and recreation.