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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 The announcement says that initial builds were "withdrawn" due to "several last-minute issues" and that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 drussell on Tuesday October 11 2016, @06:25PM

    by drussell (2678) on Tuesday October 11 2016, @06:25PM (#413041) Journal

    I've been using FreeBSD since 1994, from the first time I logged into wcarchive.cdrom.com and saw the ftp server readme... There was a free UNIX available for i386?! I downloaded the floppy images for version 1.1 (and put them on 5.25" floppies, I might add) and installed it on a spare 40 meg MFM hard disk and stuck it in one of my NT Server 3.1 boxen..... a 386/40 with no co-processor. I was hooked... That machine never booted Windows again. The FP library was a bit flakey and I only had a 387/16 and I tried several things to try to overclock it and get it to work at more than 25 Mhz... I really wanted at least 33 Mhz, preferably 40...

    A matter of days later, 1.1.5 was released with all kinds of and I dialed in, started the download, hopped in the van and headed to one of my wholesalers to pick up a 486DX CPU and motherboard and an IDE HDD to dedicate to FreeBSD. From that point onward, I don't think that machine was powered off for more than about 20 minutes total to add a SCSI controller and clean the chassis a couple of times in the next 10 years. :) Uptimes were in the hundreds of days every time. Once it went nearly 1000 days in the 2.1.x era...

    I hacked in 6 serial ports with a couple of ISA cards, shut down my dedicated PPP dialer-upper (iproute for DOS, booted off a 5.25" floppy) that was on a dedicated 286 machine and have never looked back. I did eventually upgrade the Windows server to NT 3.5 when it came out but it was essentially phased out within a couple of years and the FreeBSD functionality replaced my dedicated Lantastic box that was the file server. FreeBSD did everything I needed.

    I've tried Linux a few times over the years and I've never liked it. I've only ever used it for short periods where specific hardware drivers or special support was needed. I just don't like it. I don't like the end product, I don't like the "do it quick, get it out there" development attitude.

    FreeBSD has always seemed to be the "Do it the RIGHT way" rather than the Linux "Do it FAST". The community tends to contemplate the requirement and make sure the design is sound, then build and test... THEN release. That's the attitude I love!

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 11 2016, @07:16PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday October 11 2016, @07:16PM (#413063) Homepage Journal

    I prefer "do it within twelve months as best you can". If FreeBSD could manage that, I'd seriously consider them. They've never been able to reliably hit that target though and that's just unacceptable.

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    • (Score: 2) by fnj on Tuesday October 11 2016, @08:30PM

      by fnj (1654) on Tuesday October 11 2016, @08:30PM (#413102)

      Why? Seems like an utterly pointless object to me.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 11 2016, @08:40PM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday October 11 2016, @08:40PM (#413104) Homepage Journal

        Primarily because I'm not going to buy outdated hardware on purpose just so FreeBSD can run on it. If an OS can't keep up with the hardware that's on the market, it's a toy not a tool.

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      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @09:17PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @09:17PM (#413121)

        Because if you don't have some sort of deadline, you turn into HURD. They were infamous for fights and rewrites over relatively minor things in the endless pursuit of "best." Now its to the point where numerous developers beg for something, anything, to be written in certain areas so that progress can be made.