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FreeBSD 10.2 Released
moderators_are_w*nke writes with news that FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE is now available. Here is the download page, the release notes, and release errata. Features highlights:
The resolvconf(8) utility has been updated to version 3.7.0, with improvements to protect DNS privacy. The ntp suite has been updated to version 4.2.8p3. A new rc(8) script, growfs, has been added, which will resize the root filesystem on boot if the /firstboot file exists. The Linux® compatibility version has been updated to support Centos 6 ports. Several ZFS performance and reliability improvements. GNOME has been updated to version 3.14.2. KDE has been updated to version 4.14.3.
/firstboot
Oh well. I use it for only ZFS anyway.
Yes, they really are rising from their graves. Netcraft confirms it!
Sent from my ASR33 using ASCII
No, although there is a package called uselessd that provides enough systemd hooks to get Gnome running if that's your thing.
I read the internet for the articles.
It's a real pity that FreeBSD and the BSDs in general don't get more love from Slashdot. Linux seems to have stolen the thunder from the BSD camp, but in all honesty, FreeBSD rocks. It makes a far better server than Linux for the vast majority of cases. I used to run BSD servers, both FreeBSD and BSD/OS back in the day. Never, ever had an issue save for HW failures. Cannot say the same for Linux on identical HW. FreeBSD handles load that bring Linux to its knees. I've always agreed with the statement that "Linux is hacked together, while FreeBSD is engineered". In general, I think the BSDs are better written pieces of software.
No, and it never will, it's simply not the BSD way of doing things, nor is there any point, nor is it cobbled together by a bunch of randoms into "distros". BSD is single source and it just works, always has, always will. Linux people who have never actually USED a BSD simply don't understand the concept. That's unfortunate. :)
But since BSD is opensource unix, you can always hack it to do whatever you want
Just finished upgrading all my work and home systems and VMs, plus one clean install. Smooth painless upgrades from 10.1-RELEASE and no problems encountered, all systems running nicely. Great work, team, your efforts are much appreciated.
FreeBSD merrilin.codelibre.net 10.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE #0 r286666: Wed Aug 12 15:26:37 UTC 2015 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
This is a BSD story, why isn't it using the slashdot red BSD theme?!! Did Coyboy Neal take it when he left?
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
You are free to use and say whatever you want. Have a nice day.
Chuck Norris can crash systemd with one fist
Chuck Norris uses FreeBSD
Windows 10 Assholes
I had never run BSD on the desktop before, but recently I converted both my desktop and my aging T500 laptop to PC-BSD. The experience has been pretty good so far.
I especially like the boot environment upgrade process. The only thing you need to be aware of is not installing new software on your system after the ZFS clone. Otherwise the upgrade process affects you not at all until you're good and ready to boot into it, and at that point if anything goes wrong, you just roll it back and wait for next time.
Then I look at my real FreeBSD server and wish it was equally slick.
My biggest problem with PC-BSD is that Life Preserver does something with SSH that's just never worked for me. I've tried multiple clients to multiple servers. I've emulated the SSH part of the connection process at the command line, no problem. But after setting up the same connection, Life Preserver bombs out with a generic (aka useless) error message.
Mostly it just works, but when it doesn't I've found some of the error messages extremely unhelpful.
(Yes, I know how to wrapper SSH to diagnose this properly, but I just haven't found the time yet.)
Chuck Norris is nothing...
Linux can crash systemd with one fstab missing a mount
I know parent was marked Funny, but uselessd is a very real thing: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/
Linus doesn't consider the kernel to be "hijacked".
Haiku version:
systemd crashes
under Chuck Norris' one fist
Windows 10 assholes
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Seriously sexconkers or whoever sexconker imitator you are, don't you get tired of that joke?
What is BSD? Does BSD have a single repository somewhere or is it just a name that doesn't mean anything anymore? Can't we just talk about it as FreeBSD, OpenBSD etc. as separate entities? Because they are. There is no such thing called BSD anymore.
I use NAS4Free which is FreeBSD on a USB stick designed for running NAS servers. One of the big pains is the out of date ZFS support. Solaris had done more work on ZFS but it wasn't open sourced, ZFS encryption specifically.
uselessd is dead. The last release was uselessd-8 on November 16, 2014. An effort to revamp the IPC system away from D-Bus into using a byte stream-based fifodir protocol was staged for uselessd-9, but a growing lack of interest and realization that trying to mangle the systemd architecture into something more minimal was becoming increasingly fruitless and unwieldy lead to the project being orphaned. It was transferred to Tarnyko in January 2015, but no activity of any sort has been seen since then. For all practical purposes, it's over.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
A lot of people say FreeBSD is best on the server, while Linux is best on the desktop. But I was a long time Linux user and started playing around with FreeBSD a few years ago. It turns out, that IF your hardware is compatible with it, and IF you know what you're doing, then FreeBSD is also best on the desktop.
Amen! I need to preserve my safe space. But i went OpenBSD. Theo stood up to uncle sam. I dont see Debby or Ian doing so.
But bent over to take it from Microsoft. His infatuation with stack protection makes him blind to the privacy concerns and disregard for FOSS that Microsoft has shown. I doubt MS will be making a contribution to the foundation next year, and I'll bet that their OpenSSH implementation falls into an embrace, extend, extinguish cycle within ten years.
As I recall, BSD refers to BSD44 (or BSD v4.4), which I believe is the first version of Berkley Software Distribution [Unix] that was certified did not contain any of the SysV Unix code. Code that the university had obtained from Bell Labs for originally for training purposes. As I recall, there was a huge court battle over this in the 90s. Various pundits claim that if BSD had not been tied up in courts, hackers would not have taken an interest in the Minix clone, Linux. Then again, Linux had quite the court battle in the 2000s, and I don't remember FreeBSD users jumping through the roof. It takes quite a bit of dedication (e.g. time and desire) to track FreeBSDs -STABLE or -CURRENT. Was quite a bit of fun to compile your own kernel, though. Only one simple text file to read/modify.
As I understand, you can obtain the BSD44 sources if you desire. They are not free, though. You have to pay for shipping and the cost of a 9mm reel or two. So yes, the BSD is important as it shows that all the *BSD distros come from a Sys-V Unix parent.
Uh, both GNOME3 and GNOME3 Classic Shell are already supported on FreeBSD 10.1. I have it on this PC-BSD laptop that I'm typing on right now
One thing that I do wish FreeBSD does is add a jail for SteamOS. I currently use a PC-BSD laptop, and to run Steam, it's recommended going into Wine. I'd prefer a solution where I can open a SteamOS jail and play my Steam games. It shouldn't be difficult, since support for Debian jails already exists.
As far as I can tell from the documentation, FreeBSD isn't usable for as a production hypervisor unless you're willing to make a large investment in supporting bhyve (I don't count VirtualBox as production - it's fine for development, but too slow for production.) But how is it as a client on top of KVM or VMware? Can you run a usable system without burning too much disk or memory, compared to Red Hat or Ubuntu?
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Both FreeBSD and NetBSD have been trying to get ARM releases
out for a while. Neither is ready for Prime Time, but they're
getting closer.
I wish FreeBSD had gotten the armv7 architecture stuff into
this release as a supported arch.
I do have some early RPi boards, but also have (for anything
serious) some RPi 2 B + whatever boards. And without the
new boot code, they are useless for FBSD. Should be in the
release, even with whatever warnings and caveats are needed.
NetBSD has a not-really-release that supports the multi-core
Pis.