FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available

cperciva writes "The first release from the new 7-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, has been released. FreeBSD 7.0 brings with it many new features including support for ZFS, journaled filesystems, and SCTP, as well as dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability. In addition to being available from many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."

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Re:Still hard to install?

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While I believe you quite rightly attained your +Insightful mod, I couldn't even start to tell you what my disk geometry is, and I'm running openSUSE, XP and (sorry) Vista on the same HDD, partitioned through Linux fdisk after XP had the whole disk, and Vista was the last thing on there. Messing around with partitions is not hard, but never have I been asked to delve into things that the BIOS presents and are ignored only to be faced with a utility querying the HDD itself and be asked if the returned information is true.

I'm not ignorant, stupid, unable to find out how to do things (except work out why this 2.6.22-17 kernel that I rolled myself with all the right things in refuses to accept my high quality 80 wire cables) when they need doing, but for serious, how is it that I have never been asked things like that under Linux?
Why is the BSD automatic detection routine so unsure of itself that it asks if you want to override it?

I'm downloading the .ISO right now to give it a fair try, so I'm not baiting anyone. I have a shell account on a server that uses FreeBSD and I find the different layout and commands interesting. Can't wait to give it a try.