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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday October 11 2016, @03:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-one-louder-innit? dept.

The FreeBSD project has announced a new stable version of the FreeBSD operating system. The announcement says that initial builds were "withdrawn" due to "several last-minute issues" and that

Users that have installed FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE from the images originally available on the mirrors or from freebsd-update(8) prior to the rebuild of the final release are urged to upgrade their systems to FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 immediately.

Among the changes are a new version of OpenSSH which no longer supports version 1 of the SSH protocol, support for 802.11n Wi-Fi, a port to 64-bit ARM processors, and graphics support in the bhyve hypervisor.

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  • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Tuesday October 11 2016, @05:11PM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Tuesday October 11 2016, @05:11PM (#413006) Homepage Journal

    Its not a change we're making lightly, but none of the sysops staff like where current Linux distros are headed, and we don't want to use a rolling release for our server (which excludes most systemd free Linux distros). As it stands, we have 2.5 years left of security and support for on Ubuntu 14.04, and 7 years on CentOS 6 (which Beryllium uses). I'm actively avoiding us from being an example of an organization that is three or four major versions out of date.

    If it wasn't for the fact that Ubuntu 16.04 has been problematic for me in testing environment already (combined with systemd), we'd already have upgraded; we already did in-place upgrades from Ubuntu 12.04 -> 14.04, and only once have we wiped out a machine and rebuilt it since golive.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @07:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @07:11PM (#413060)

    It isn't a 'rolling release' distro, has stable and unstable branches, eliminated systemd, seems to cross-migrate fine from ubuntu (just make sure it is a clean ubuntu install without launchpad packages.), and generally seems to make a good fill in for other distros, with support on pretty much any platform debian supports, and talk of supporting a few others it doesn't officially anymore.

    • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Wednesday October 12 2016, @12:25AM

      by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Wednesday October 12 2016, @12:25AM (#413184) Homepage Journal

      Devuan had quite a few issues with it last time I looked (which admitly was awhile ago) that made me very "eh" on selecting it as a choice of distro. It looks like they migrated away from using Jenkins as a build service and are less on the crack pipe than they were historically so maybe worth a second-look.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @04:07AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @04:07AM (#413269)

        What is wrong with Jenkins? Seems to be the choice for most people not on github or gitlab.

  • (Score: 1) by AlwaysNever on Tuesday October 11 2016, @10:27PM

    by AlwaysNever (5817) on Tuesday October 11 2016, @10:27PM (#413142)

    The sensible thing to do is to go fully Centos6, and just wait for SystemD to be stabilized and the "ecosystem" of tools, scripts and tricks around it to grow.

    I would not touch FreeBSD for anything, unless I already was a FreeBSD expert for some reason. The "ecosystem" for FreeBSD is to narrow.