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FreeBSD 10.1 Released

Posted by timothy on from the longstanding-contributions dept.

An anonymous reader writes Version 10.1 of the venerable FreeBSD operating system has been released. The new version of FreeBSD offers support for booting from UEFI, automated generation of OpenSSH keys, ZFS performance improvements, updated (and more secure) versions of OpenSSH and OpenSSL and hypervisor enhancements. FreeBSD 10.1 is an extended support release and will be supported through until January 1, 2017. Adds reader aojensen: As this is the second release of the stable/10 branch, it focuses on improving the stability and security of the 10.0-RELEASE, but also introduces a set of new features including: vt(4) a new console driver, support for FreeBSD/i386 guests on the bhyve hypervisor, support for SMP on armv6 kernels, UEFI boot support for amd64 architectures, support for the UDP-Lite protocol (RFC 3828) support on both IPv4 and IPv6, and much more. For a complete list of changes and new features, the release notes are also available.

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  1. I Switched To FreeBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I switched from Linux to FreeBSD a while ago. FreeBSD is so simple and clean, there's not all this extra bling running that I had with Linux. They have a good handbook right on their website that tells you how to do all the basics of system updating and installing things like browsers, email, video players and things. And as I use it I get the feeling that these guys are going to be around for a very long time, like I never have to worry anymore about whether my old Linux distro will just vanish with the few devs they had in comparison ending up leaving me stuck. FreeBSD is pretty huge it seems. They even have a nonprofit foundation that kicks in like a million bucks or so every year and as I read their page their projects show good results from it. Can't believe it took me so long to try FreeBSD. I'm sold and I'm never going back. Here is their foundation if you want to check them out too...
    http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/

    1. Re:I Switched To FreeBSD by jones_supa · · Score: 4, Informative

      3 months ago there was a Facebook job application which sought for people having the skills to improve Linux's network stack to match the performance of FreeBSD's.

    2. Re:I Switched To FreeBSD by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Many FreeBSD devs run "current" on production servers at their own jobs.

      A good example of this is Netflix. Because their infrastructure is designed to support server failures, they're quite happy to deploy random patches against -CURRENT on machines that saturate their network and disk bandwidth pretty much full time and report performance numbers. This has been a really good way of stress testing network and storage stack improvements recently.

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  2. Re:FreeBSD by tepples · · Score: 4, Informative

    FreeBSD comes from 386BSD (1992), which comes from 4.xBSD (older).

  3. Re:FreeBSD by BitZtream · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... Freebsd.org itself was registered in 1994, and has roots in the original Berkley Software Distribution which is what it started from. BSD started in 1977, which was 37 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

    Its pretty difficult to get another large OS with the history that FBSD comes from, even counting Windows.

    Ironically, archive.org ... was registered in 1995.

    Yes, the FreeBSD domain is older than the site you're trying to use as a reference of saying that its not old.

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  4. Re:FreeBSD by fnj · · Score: 4, Informative

    FreeBSD 1.0 was released November 2 1993. The 21st anniversary was just a few days ago.