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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 The announcement says that initial builds were "withdrawn" due to "several last-minute issues" and that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 The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 11 2016, @07:16PM
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
Why? Seems like an utterly pointless object to me.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 11 2016, @08:40PM
Primarily because I'm not going to buy outdated hardware on purpose just so FreeBSD can run on it.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.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday October 12 2016, @09:41PM
The release process isn't deterministic; this release was delayed more than a month.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/schedule.html [freebsd.org]
However, one needn't wait for a release to have access to new drivers. They're typically brought into the stable branches with what's called an MFC, short for "moved from -CURRENT." For example:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=283990 [freebsd.org]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @09:17PM
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.