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FreeBSD 11.0 Released

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

butthurt writes:

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 The announcement says that initial builds were "withdrawn" due to "several last-minute issues" and that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:
errata
release notes
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  • (Score: 2) by rleigh on Tuesday October 11 2016, @08:58PM

    by rleigh (4887) on Tuesday October 11 2016, @08:58PM (#413112) Homepage

    I'd been testing out the betas in a few VMs without any problems noted. Upgraded the home NAS last night and four VMs at work today, plus created an openstack image for future use.

    I started using FreeBSD with the release of 10.0, after 15+ years of Debian. systemd was the thing which motivated me to initially try the switch, but in actual fact is not the reason I stayed. ZFS is a top notch feature. This is the number one reason I'm using it. While you can use ZFS on Linux, the stability and extra features make it well worth using it on FreeBSD. Likewise jails, the pkg/ports collection etc. are all great. vnet jails are my next todo item. It's easy to get stuck in your comfort zone and not see what else is on offer. systemd kicked me out of that zone and made me explore what else was around. If you want a Unix system to get stuff done, FreeBSD is an excellent tool for the job. When mainsteam Linux distributions have all gone in a direction I'm not happy with, FreeBSD is (one of) the ways out of that mess.

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