any BSD users / players here? Apple OS based on BSD

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Latest Ghost-BSD & Open-BSD released.

These are the most stable OS as far as I know. Their top aim is reliability. They won't go for any unstable advances nor greedy for performance which are at the expense of reliability / stability. Mission critical and security critical systems can count on them most. They will run for the longest up-time and have the least risk of being hacked / compromised.


2011-11-01 BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.0
http://distrowatch.com/openbsd

Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 5.0, a new version of a BSD-based operating system renown for its high security thanks to meticulous code review. Some of the new features and systems in the new release include: "Improved hardware support, including: MSI interrupts for many devices, on those architectures which can support them (amd64, i386, sparc64 only so far); a new dma_alloc(9) API makes it easier for kernel code to allocate dma-safe memory; as a result, big-memory support has been enabled on all possible architectures; the rather rare bce(4) driver now copies mbufs all the time, to cope with the hardware having a 1 GB limit. Highlights: GNOME 2.32.2, KDE 3.5.10, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.19, 3.6.18 and 5.0, LibreOffice 3.4.1, PHP 5.2.17 and 5.3.6, Chromium 12.0.742.122...." A much more comprehensive list of features can be found in the detailed release notes. Quick links to download installation CD images for the i386 and amd64 architectures: i386/install50.iso (219MB, SHA256), amd64/install50.iso (233MB, SHA256).

2011-10-31 Development Release: GhostBSD 2.5 Beta 3
http://distrowatch.com/ghostbsd

Eric Turgeon has announced the availability of the third beta of GhostBSD 2.5, a user-friendly, GNOME-based FreeBSD distribution - now also with a live graphical installer: "The GhostBSD release is late following the FreeBSD 9.0 release status. We have only released beta 3 on October 30, 2011. List of bugs fixed: auto-mount on amd64 and PiTiVi on amd64; free space output on the GUI and text installer; second install option on text installer; Linux base system compatibility on DVD; Linux Flash player on DVD. To install GhostBSD you have two options. A new option is by clicking on the GhostBSD Installer icon or typing 'gbi' on terminal for GUI installation. Typing ginstall in a terminal is for the new text-mode installer. Ginstall is a great tool for those can get to GUI or their keyboard and mouse don't work on the GUI." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download (MD5): GhostBSD-2.5-BETA3-i386.iso (967MB), GhostBSD-2.5-BETA3-amd64.iso (1,077MB), GhostBSD-2.5-BETA3-i386-lite.iso (669MB).