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FreeBSD 11.1 Released (freebsd.org)

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-and-improved dept.

Billly Gates writes: Linux is not the only free open-source operating system. FreeBSD, which is based off of the historical BSD Unix in which TCP/IP was developed on from the University of California at Berkeley, has been updated. It does not include systemd nor PulseAudio and is popular in many web server installations and networking devices. FreeBSD 11.1 is out with improvements in UEFI and Amazon cloud support in addition to updated userland programs. EFI improvements including a new utility efivar(8) to manage UEFI variables, EFI boot from TFTP or NFS, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V UEFI and Secure Boot for generation 2 virtual machines for both Windows Server and Windows 10 Professional hosts. FreeBSD 11.1 also has extended support Amazon Cloud features. A new networking stack for Amazon has been added with the ena(4) driver, which adds support for Amazon EC2 platform. This also adds support for using Amazon EC2 NFS shares and support for the Amazon Elastic Filesystem for NFS. For application updates, FreeBSD 11.1 Clang, LLVM, LLD, LLDB, and libc++ to version 4.0.0. ZFS has been updated too with a new zfsbootcfg with minor performance improvements. Downloads are here which include Sparc, PowerPC, and even custom SD card images for Raspberry Pi, Beagle-bone and other devices.

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  1. Mascot holding them back and rightfully so by mike2006 · · Score: -1, Troll

    2017 and they still will not abandon that controversial idiotic cartoon mascot. I suspect there would have been far wider adoption without it, especially these last few years as a systemd free alternative. The mascot raises all kinds of questions for people. Rather than having people focus on the benefits of the OS the first thing they see is the mascot and thus the OS is dead to them before they go any further.

    Saying you are going to store corporate data or any data for that matter on a system that looks like it is intended for use by kid hackers for nefarious demonic purposes is an obvious red flag for people. It screams not for business or adult use or Christian use. For that decision alone that OS deserves to go down in flames. No pun intended.

    Looks like they had a chance to remedy that in 2005 and botched it. No doubt they will stick their guns and the OS will be eventually be gone in a few years.