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FreeBSD 10.1 Released
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.
Lets just hope that the FreeBSD devs don't become like some linux devs by shitting all over their users while jerking each other off.
OpenBSD is good for a firewall with specific hardware that performs well on OpenBSD.
Outside of that FreeBSD is far more likely to be what you want to use. OpenBSD is kind of like Oracle DB. It can serve its niche REALLY well, but using it feels like you're stuck in the 70s with some of the archaic crap it does. Due to its security related background, they don't do anything they don't have to. Which is fine, and the only way to go when security is your main concern.
Or you can run FreeBSD, which isn't cut down to the bone, really doesn't have any more major problems security wise than OpenBSD, and is about 4 orders of magnitude more 'user friendly', where 'user' means 'systems admin'.
Performance wise, FreeBSD still maintains the fastest network stack on the planet, so if you need to move packets, you're going to want to be running FreeBSD, and since it can do so with PF, it makes OpenBSD less attractive as a firewall in all but the most sensitive installations.
OpenBSD isn't better because its simplistic, its simplistic by design but not 'better'. 99.999% of the systems on the planet don't need to be like OpenBSD, and FreeBSD makes very sane trade offs in what they do to be way more usable.
Calling FreeBSD a desktop BSD is really really silly. Linux is a desktop Unix clone (and can be a fine server). FreeBSD is a server BSD that will run X and some desktop UIs, but its not a desktop UNIX, you're thinking of OS X.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
FreeBSD devs are almost entirely System Admins or ex-system admins. They eat their own dog-food. Many FreeBSD devs run "current" on production servers at their own jobs. FreeBSD "current" is currently 11.0. The FreeBSD SMP PF changes were running on several production servers as a "beta" for over a year. Each server was a router than handled tens of gigabits per second in a datacenter. These people really eat their own dog food.
I can't comprehend this inferiority complex towards Linux that plagues FreeBSD users. The first public releases of the Slackware and Debian distributions predate the first public release of the BSD flavour known as FreeBSD. That's it. Clinging to software version numbering, in the Open Source world, where software version numbering means basically nothing is laughable at best and a troll attempt at worst. I suppose that none used OpenSSL before 2010 or that 6.8% of the world sites in April 2011 were running on nothing, since nginx was still at version 0.9.7. Yes, it's that laughable.
Nice to see UDP-lite supported in FreeBSD. I am an author of this protocol (RFC 3828) and we made our initial implementation of UDP-lite in BSD many years ago. I would be interested to hear of any experiences using UDP-lite.