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FeeBSD 7.0-beta1 has been released


Now it has happened - FreeBSD going commercial!! Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cato_minor) Comments New Features in 7 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280144 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280144 you can see a list of new features here

http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd7.html Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Chezz) Comments Very, very nice http://www.osnews.com/thread?280145 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280145 I have been running 7.0 Current for several months now and it's been fantastic for my desktop use. Awesome stability and very fast, especially with the ULE scheduler, which is disabled by default but is a recommended optimization. The FreeBSD GNOME team has also done an outstanding job with GNOME (see freebsd.org/gnome). Xorg 7.3, Compiz-Fusion, are all available in ports as well.

/me loves FreeBSD. Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jackson) Comments Macbook http://www.osnews.com/thread?280151 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280151 Still doesn't boot on my first generation Macbook with acpi enabled =( Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ukki) Comments great http://www.osnews.com/thread?280154 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280154 lot's of congrats to the whole FreeBSD Team!
I really like FreeBSD and espacially me as a mac user. A lot of there work flowed into MacOS "Leopard".

They a great job!
*clapping the hands* =) Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SK8T) Comments nvidia on amd64? http://www.osnews.com/thread?280162 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280162 I was wondering if there's gonna be an nvidia driver for FreeBSD 7 amd64, anyone idea? Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Blender) Comments RE: nvidia on amd64? http://www.osnews.com/thread?280163 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280163 Last I read, I don't think so. http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests has an update on the situation but this information might be outdated. Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Don T. Bothers) Comments Free7+K4 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280169 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280169 I think Free 7 with KDE4 is going to be one killer system!

But I'm also really looking forward to OpenBSD 4.3 with KDE4, be really nice desktop GUI with seriously secure controls.

But I am seriously going to work on seeing who I can get to switch over to Free7+K4 and get out of Linux and Windows. I think it will be a glamorous desktop.

It looks like it will be a mid-December release, approximately around the same time frame of the official stable release of KDE 4.0 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lengsel) Comments RE: Oh no! http://www.osnews.com/thread?280211 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280211 Umm...
How so? Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ThawkTH) Comments RE[2]: Oh no! http://www.osnews.com/thread?280230 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280230
Umm... How so?

Just a silly wordplay, picking on the typo. SCNR ;) Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cato_minor) Comments RE: Macbook http://www.osnews.com/thread?280232 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280232 ukki not all macbook patches were merged in 7
you need to take a look at
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Chezz) Comments RE: Free7+K4 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280260 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280260 I've been playing with FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro via VMWare the last few days. I couldn't get this beta to finish installing from the boot ISO. It would download a bunch of packages, give me a cryptic message and reboot to a non-working system. 6.2 works fine though.

I too am excited about the prospect of FreeBSD7 + KDE4 but unless suspend/resume works on laptops now (didn't see anything about that in the release notes) it's going to be a tough sell. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (viniosity) Comments RE[3]: Oh no! http://www.osnews.com/thread?280295 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280295 Nice catch, I had to do a double take to see it. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tweek) Comments RE: Very, very nice http://www.osnews.com/thread?280296 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280296 The FreeBSD GNOME team has also done an outstanding job with GNOME (see freebsd.org/gnome).

The GNOME 2.2.1 and the rest of MC ports will be merging into FreeBSD ports sometime this week. ;-) Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mezz) Comments RE: Macbook http://www.osnews.com/thread?280302 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280302 On my new shiny toaster either, what a crap ... Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vermaden) Comments RE: nvidia on amd64? http://www.osnews.com/thread?280333 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280333 Far, far away [1], [2].
nVidia hides behind the "missing features" argument while the BSD people (understandably) do not rush to implement the missing features.

Hopefully AMD will release all the 3D specs ASAP, helping the X.org/SUSE team to release a good 3D capable OSS driver - forcing, nVidia to rethink their driver policy.
As it stands, I don't see them modify their driver frame work to support 64bit BSD, Xen (under both Linux and Solaris) and other non-standard OS combinations.

- Gilboa
[1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=82203
[2] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments New things in 7.0 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280390 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280390 Kris Kennaway, FreeBSD committer, just created a pdf of a presentation he gave about all the cool things in 7.0, especially the SMP work and general optimizations. It's a great read:

http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jackson) Comments Geometry bug fixed yet? http://www.osnews.com/thread?280393 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280393 I'm not trying to be a troll. I used FreeBSD for about a year (version 5.x), but couldn't live with the geometry bug in the installer. Even though it would install OK, it would mess up my Linux partitions (some distros would refuse to run as a result).

The geometry bug has been around for what - 10 or 15 years? OpenBSD does not have this problem. So I'm asking, in all sincerity, will 7.0 finally fix the geometry bug? If so, I'll gladly give it a try. If not, well, I can always wait for 8.x, or 9.x, or ???Edited 2007-10-24 15:38 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ozonehole) Comments RE[2]: nvidia on amd64? http://www.osnews.com/thread?280398 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280398 Thanks god games aren't important. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Oliver) Comments RE[2]: nvidia on amd64? http://www.osnews.com/thread?280401 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280401 I think nVidia's policy is admirable when it comes to FreeBSD drivers. To be able to release a high performance driver they posted their requests on freebsd forums long time ago. It's not like they're hiding behind anything or making excessive demands. Those features are available in Linux and Solaris and thus they have a 64 bit driver. Also if you want a suboptimal solution you can always stick to 32 bit OS. nVidia will release the driver as soon as the features are implemented. So if anyone is dragging their feet it's the BSD team.

I don't play games but I need the official nVidia driver for my dual monitor setup. I guess I'll have to wait for Project Indiana instead. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (atici) Comments RE: Geometry bug fixed yet? http://www.osnews.com/thread?280421 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280421 What bug? It's showing you these thing because your bios lies about your harddrive. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Oliver) Comments RE[3]: nvidia on amd64? http://www.osnews.com/thread?280425 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280425 Not every operating system designs its drivers according to the wishes of some driver developers. Most of the time those driver developers aren't able to develop proper drivers at all, so why care about it? Maybe they should open up their drivers, there will be something ready for proper redesign too :-) Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Oliver) Comments Not to be pickish http://www.osnews.com/thread?280439 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280439 It's GNOME 2.20.1 and not 2.2.1, and I'm sure it's a typo, but if not one must say that the more than 7 years difference between the two releases is quite significant ;) Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (s_groening) Comments RE: New things in 7.0 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280456 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280456 A great read indeed; it's good to see FreeBSD on top of their game. I've always preferred FreeBSD; code correctness instead of amount of code Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (theraven1982) Comments RE: Not to be pickish http://www.osnews.com/thread?280459 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280459 It's GNOME 2.20.1 and not 2.2.1

Yes, it's a typo. :-) GNOME 2.20.1 is going to be merge into FreeBSD ports anytime today, btw. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mezz) Comments