OpenBSD 4.9 Brings Various Improvements

Posted by Michael Larabel on May 01, 2011

OpenBSD 4.9 has been released today while many Europeans are out with their first of May celebrations.

The new OpenBSD 4.9 release enables the NTFS read-only support by default now with their generic kernels, support for machines with up to 64 cores, support for AES-NI instructions with new Intel CPUs, better suspend-and-resume support, various new hardware drivers, SCSI improvements, and many other enhancements.

For more information on the OpenBSD 4.9 release, visit OpenBSD.org.

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