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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 The announcement says that initial builds were "withdrawn" due to "several last-minute issues" and that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.

further reading:
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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @05:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @05:52PM (#413025)

    I've been running FreeBSD for a small server (currently 10.2) and a desktop (currently 10.3) on fit-PC 'Mintbox2's for about a year now. They each have two USB3 ports on them and I haven't had any trouble at all with them. I do a weekly ZFS backup to a portable USB3 drive and haven't seen any issues. And yes, ZFS _is_ nice :).

    You might want to check the USB3 support with some other hardware.

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  • (Score: 2) by Unixnut on Tuesday October 11 2016, @07:37PM

    by Unixnut (5779) on Tuesday October 11 2016, @07:37PM (#413075)

    Yes, unfortunately all the hardware I have is identical, as it is usually cheaper to buy hardware in bulk. So identical motherboards, all of which have USB3 from the same chipset. FreeBSD acts the same on all of them, hence why I added the "at least on my hardware" bit. I can imagine that in the last 6 years since USB3 came about in FreeBSD, it worked for most people, otherwise more attention would have been placed on the issue. My hardware is relatively new, so could just be a matter of time before it is supported.

    All I know is USB3 worked perfectly when Linux ran on the same hardware, so there is a ways to go for FreeBSD on the desktop. I can't give a client a desktop where plugging in a USB3 hard drive core dumps the OS. You can get away with that on a server, but not on a desktop.

    Plus a lot of third party packages are Linux only, so I suspect Linux will stay on the desktops for the foreseeable future, thankfully without systemd in my case. We shall revisit the situation in future of course, depending on how things go.