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New Releases From FreeBSD and NetBSD

Posted by timothy on from the under-the-new-year's-wire dept.

tearmeapart writes "The teams at FreeBSD have reached another great achievement with FreeBSD 9.1, with improvements to the already fantastic zfs features, more VM improvements (helping bringing FreeBSD to the next generation of VMs), and improvements in speed to many parts of the network system. Support FreeBSD via the FreeBSD mall or download/upgrade FreeBSD from a mirror. Unfortunately, the torrent server is still down due to the previous security incident." And new submitter northar writes "The other day the NetBSD project released their first update to the 6.x series, 6.0.1. They also (rather discreetly) announced a fund drive targeting 60.000 USD before the end of 2012 in the release notes. They better get going if their donation page is anything like recently updated."

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  1. FreeBSD 9.1 Is Unix Heaven by AddisonW · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've got FreeBSD 9.1 running on my machine now and it is absolute Unix heaven.

    The NVidia drivers work perfectly with my 580 card. The rest of my hardware was recognized and works properly.

    All my gaming is done on my PS3 and Wii and a little bit on my Android devices. So my FreeBSD is primarily used for development and some webbrowsing. Working on a system that is stable and free from the crazy and random crap that plagues the various Linux distros is wonderful. The only negative I've found so far is the desktop's ports aren't as fully setup as you get as with something like Ubunut or Mint since the major focus of most of the FreeBSD devs is on server use.

    I would like to thank all the lame people who have so diligently been posting their lame 'is dying' posts. I would never have checked out BSD if it wasn't for them. And it looks like the latest attempt at BSD FUD about funding massively backfired and led to a huge surge in project donations.

    I usually hate these type of cute little sayings but after having switched from Linux to FreeBSD it really rings true:

    Linux is for people who hate Microsoft
    BSD is for people who love Unix

    1. Re:FreeBSD 9.1 Is Unix Heaven by AddisonW · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Why would I pay effectively double for a Mac that:

      1. I can't even get a Blu-Ray drive with

      2. Apple's crap OpenGL drivers

      Having had a tablet now for the past year and finding I spend most of my casual computing done with it and all my development work on my FreeBSD system.

      Buying a Mac would be a waste of money. The only reason I would ever get a Mac desktop would be if for some reason I needed to work on a Mac desktop application. That is highly unlikely to ever happen.

  2. BSD is for people who hate Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Judging by your comments I would say that BSD is for people who hate Linux. :(

    1. Re:BSD is for people who hate Linux by Bengie · · Score: 4, Insightful

      More like any time some troll comes in to the FreeBSD forums and smack talks about how great Linux is and how bad BSD is, it turns into a "Linux is teh awesomeest!!!!!1!" and "FreeBSD works well for us"