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FreeBSD 8.1 Released
hsn and other readers pointed out that FreeBSD 8.1 has been released. "This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: zfsloader added; zpool version of ZFS subsystem updated to version 14; NFSv4 ACL support in UFS and ZFS; support added to cp(1), find(1), getfacl(1), mv(1), and setfacl(1) utilities; UltraSPARC IV/IV+, SPARC64 V support; SMP support in PowerPC G5; BIND 9.6.2-P2..." ... and much more. See the release notes summary and the details.
Why? The kids are not alright.
I don't know what you're talking about. I see one on my screen, and it even says "frist psot" in it.
It's nice to see they've got zfsloader in there by default, now. It was otherwise a huge pain to get ZFS to be booted from - you basically had to build your own installer and set up everything manually. Quite the time consuming task.
Unfortunately, I don't see any mention of these changes:
* "improved stability for ZFS". Sure, it supports pool version 14! What the fuck does that mean, really, when "bare minimum 4GB RAM" was a requirement for 8.0 to get it even remotely stable (some tuning required)? I don't care if it runs for months without locking the system. It's still locking the system.
* "decreased memory use for ZFS". It's not even doing deduplication in 8.0 RELEASE yet using 3GB of RAM at an idle load is not unheard of.
* Why so quiet on the USB front? Nice to see they got ralink devices added, but that does little for the fact that USB is almost completely unreliable in 8.x. Just take a look at the USB mailing list - problem after problem that's the same (USB has many, many timing/boot/detection issues in 8.x), with the seeming consensus being "we don't care, it works for me".
FreeBSD needs to fix those things or forever be relegated to amateur hour. Seems "quality things that work" gets relegated to "superior design". That's all fine and good, but if you've got to rape an ape just to get the damn thing to work as designed due to implementation flaws, it's essentially worthless.
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Anyone know if this release improves ZFS stability on 32-bit machines? even with 2GB of ram i still get occasional kernel panics due to it running out of address space.
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Hey, speak for yourself.
What is the airspeed of a fully laden swallow?
I don't want a joke. I want OS support for the Elan framebuffers in my R4000 Indigo and R4400 Indigo 2.
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Never been known to fail..."
Yeah, Linux will eventually be included on that list for Slashdot, too. Mac fanbois have taken over; the Ubuntists are out.
Pretty soon, a minor Linux kernel update won't make the front page.
Perhaps, although the number of (non-Ubuntu) Linux machines deployed outside of people's parent's basements exceeds fBSD and Ubuntu combined, which is kind of a built-in interest base. My expectation is that most smart people try to stay abreast of trends in the industry they work in ;)
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I had a very common ASUS ethernet adapter. When I tried to install FreeBSD to try it out I found that they had no support for this adapter. It was the one that most of the ASUS MB's used at the time. I see they still, 2 years later, do not support this very common adapter. It is an ATTANSIC L1 ethernet adapter and is very common. Until FreeBSD starts opening themselves to the common hardware that is used on many of the MB's then I don't see why I should jump through hoops to use their O/S. I did try DeskBSD on an older computer I had and it worked fairly well but not any better than Linux did and Linux had a lot more supporting applications than the BSD did. Saw no reason to go to BSD over what I could find elsewhere and with more support. Real shame because the basic structure is great but the details that are missing make all the difference. I find that ARCH Linux and Mint Linux give me more with speedier applications than BSD does and still have the protection that Windows does not offer.
Excuse me, but that troll you just pasted is over ten years old. I've perused my logs and found myself referencing said troll over two hundred times. Thank you.
Linux is a nice 'hobby' OS; however, its hardware support sucks for virtually all modern devices. It's 2010, and Linux still has problems with basic functionality like suspend or graphics acceleration support on many machines. ;->
Of course, you're missing the fact that desktop is not the whole world. Lack of 802.11n support for a few devices doesn't really matter when you're building a core router, NAS, or a http server.
(Also, your trolling would be better if it didn't contain claims that are easy to verify as false. In particular, the point about ACLs is bad, because it's easy to check that e.g. Linux doesn't support standard NFSv4 ACLs at all. ;-)
According to "man -k L1", Attansic L1 is supported by the age(4) driver.
Yeah, especially the "hobby" part, and the "up to ve level of other unix systems", which is false, as explained above. ;->
What the hell are you talking about? Apple-haters have almost completely taken over the comments section to any Apple article. What a lame attempt at karma-whoring on your part.