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FreeBSD 10.0 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the brand-new dept.

An anonymous reader writes "FreeBSD 10.0 has been released. A few highlights include: pkg is now the default package management utility. Major enhancements in virtualization, including the addition of bhyve, virtio, and native paravirtualized drivers providing support for FreeBSD as a guest operating system on Microsoft Hyper-V. Support for the high-performance LZ4 compression algorithm has been added to ZFS and TRIM support for SSD has been added to ZFS. clang is the default compiler. This release has official Raspberry Pi support. For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and a quick FreeBSD installation video is here. FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE may be downloaded via ftp or via a torrent client that supports web seeding."

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  1. Outstanding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Good to hear. I'm sure I'm not the only one who really likes the BSDs in general. After almost 20 years in the IT biz, I would still choose FreeBSD or OpenBSD for my server needs for almost anything over almost anything. I've never been disappointed in the service of either BSD variant. Kudos to the FreeBSD devs!

  2. NIMFY by epine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But if nobody runs it, you do not uncover bugs and you never get a .1 release.

    Yeah, we're talking the NIMFY effect: not in my front yard.

    Really, with the .0 releases, if you try to stay fairly mainstream in your deployment, and you're mindfull about the necessary mitigations if it doesn't go well, the risk is not outrageous. But first test your backups.

    If I had to choose between 10.0 (which I hardly know) and 5.3 (all too well known) I'd pick 10.0 in a heartbeat. That series should have started out at 5.-5 (five dot negative five).

    The .0 thing is just a loose heuristic.