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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 The announcement says that initial builds were "withdrawn" due to "several last-minute issues" and that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 VLM on Tuesday October 11 2016, @05:52PM
Still using linode? I am. Just checked and its possible to run an install of freebsd by supplying your own install stuff, but its not as simple as selecting "freebsd 11.0" in the dropdown instead of Debian 8 like I use. More like you select an ISO file and do an install. Its like my last old time Debian box that hasn't been converted at home or work into freebsd.
Strangely enough there is a document at linode.com explaining the whole manual install process using freebsd 10.1
Another thing I noticed is you'd think my ansible config would double in size but its probably more like triple due to PITA of having to support two OS for awhile and stuff I never thought to put in a OS wrapper or never thought I'd need to configure, etc etc.
Anyway just thought this might be interesting to contemplate.
Subjectively over a year or two freebsd provides much less hand holding. For example "recently" probably unrelated to the 11.0 release, the non-free nvidia driver changed from being called as "nvidia" by loader.conf to silently failing and you need to call it as "nvidia-modeset" for who knows why reasons or else you have no working non-free nvidia driver. Now on linux someone would put something into the upgrade script to automagically change any /etc/loader.conf to the new line, and if you boot after the upgrade then if you have the new nvidia and the old line in /etc/loader.conf then the init script (for xdm?) would make big screaming noises and announcements so it would be impossible to miss the change. But no, in freebsd you just get some text in the upgrade news file that most people ignore and skip over and then X fails on the next reboot. Wasn't too hard to figure out, but a bit of a WTF. Its not hidden, but not shouted from the roof tops linux style. Much less hand holding than say Ubuntu.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Wednesday October 12 2016, @12:22AM
Yeah, we're still on Linode, and we'll loose Linode's backup service if we switch it over to FreeBSD. Migrating off Linode is an option if it comes to that though TBH, I rather not do so if it can be avoided. Lots of pain in that scenario.
Still always moving