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OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21325/FreeBSD_7_2-RC1_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 14:20:37 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359130 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359130 A link to what's new and cool in this release would be nice. With Linux, we always get these indepth news articles about "awesome" new features, but with BSDs, no one covers them. It makes you wonder about how the BSDs are keeping up with the "awesome" features of Linux, like sophisticated schedulers, drivers, etc. The BSD developers aren't sitting on their asses, and they're not ignoring what the Linux people are doing... so it would be cool if someone actually talked about their developments too. Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (theosib) Comments RE: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359138 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359138 i think you just volunteered yourself, so on behalf of the rest of use lazy people, thanks

personally, i also would like to see more competition between the *nixs, and much of this has little to do with that they actually do (cause they do alot) and a great amount to do with how the media (thats you OSN) reports on it.

someone has to stir the pot right?

just a thought. Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (YNOP) Comments RE[2]: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359140 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359140 Alas, if I had half a clue on the topic, I wouldn't have felt the need to ask the question. I don't even know where to begin. Join their mailing lists and start asking questions? I'll add that to my long list of other things to do.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (theosib) Comments RE: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359157 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359157

A link to what's new and cool in this release would be nice. With Linux, we always get these indepth news articles about "awesome" new features, but with BSDs, no one covers them. It makes you wonder about how the BSDs are keeping up with the "awesome" features of Linux, like sophisticated schedulers, drivers, etc. The BSD developers aren't sitting on their asses, and they're not ignoring what the Linux people are doing... so it would be cool if someone actually talked about their developments too.

Release Notes will be available once the version is released. In there you will find what you are looking for. Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (phoenix) Comments RE: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359160 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359160 7.2 will be an incremental release of the 7.X series. Most of the new and exciting features in FreeBSD happen on the major versions, like 7.0.
7.1 and the upcoming 7.2 fix bugs, add some drivers and may enhance some subsystems. It is worth having a look at few of the features introduced in 7.0:

- ZFS filesystem
- New ULE scheduler (default in the GENERIC kernel from 7.1 onwards)
- Much better SMP support (fine-grained locking)
- UFS journaling via the GEOM framework
- DTrace
- More drivers etc.

Read more about it here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html

8.0-RELEASE is also scheduled for later this year, and you can expect another nice list of new features there too. Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sonic2000gr) Comments RE[2]: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359205 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359205 I put my bet more on 8.0 which has revolutionary changes like USB4BSd and possibly KGI. Combined with support from Debian this is a step in the right direction. Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments RE[3]: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359285 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359285 What support from Debian? Cutting out a kernel is pure nonsense! The huge advantage of *BSD is the high quality development of kernel and userland altogether. Furthermore nobody cares about most parts of GNU userland, it's a single lack of quality. Even many Linux distros are glad to use some tools of the BSD userland (the most obvious OpenSSH, libarchive and bsdtar ...) and Google Android e.g. uses many parts of the BSD userland plus a libc derived from OpenBSD/NetBSD. Linux uses superpages, a technology developed for FreeBSD, Firefox 3.x uses jemalloc from FreeBSD etc. pp.

Well I don't want to start a flameware, BUT Debian itself is barely able anymore to just put together some operating system developed by other people. And I don't want to mention any of the high quality flops, like Iceweasel, cdrtools ...

Developing a kernel plus userland and distributing this as ready-to-use operating system is a real achievement. Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Oliver) Comments RE[4]: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359302 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359302 This is all nice, but I think that APT is much more powerfull than FreeBSD ports. I for one would welcome BSD with APT for package management

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dvzt) Comments RE[5]: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359312 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359312 Debian/kFreeBSD
http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (g0nad) Comments RE[5]: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359314 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359314 I would say APT is the best for binary package management, but FreeBSD ports is unbeatable for source based installs. Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sonic2000gr) Comments RE[5]: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359321 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359321 But APT is for Debian, not FreeBSD. Just because one can replace the kernel with a bunch of hacking does not mean you can use Debian packages on FreeBSD. There is the complete userland to consider. Debian developers develop for Debian, and not FreeBSD. Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Brandybuck) Comments RE[5]: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359342 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359342 Binary packages != ports. And if it comes to sources-based management Debian is a single failure. However if we're talking about management of binary packages, then pacman from ArchLinux is the way to go. Why should an OS like FreeBSD that follows the KISS principle use something like apt? Prone to failure, overloaded with scripts etc.? No you're talking about the past. But then, most people chosing FreeBSD are quiet happy about the ports and the control they get while building the software. And I don't speak about performance, but control of features, patches, quality compared to inconsistencies among binary packages etc. Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Oliver) Comments RE[5]: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359373 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359373 ports are better if you want to compile. For binary releases I would prefer pacman to apt-get, and I'm an old apt-get lover.

Now FreeBSD with pacman would really rock. Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbenitezb) Comments RE[4]: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359376 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359376 Respectfully disagree, Love debian gnu/linux. Will love debian gnu/FreeBSD. I prefer the Gnu userland. Silly little differences between the two, but sort of a pain switching between my Linux work and anything on BSD. Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bill Shooter of Bul) Comments RE[4]: What's new? http://www.osnews.com/thread?359455 http://www.osnews.com/thread?359455 OpenSSH comes from OpenBSD, not FreeBSD, and where are talking about Debian GNU/FreeBSD in this case.
So, what's the boombastic part of the freebsd userland which GNU should envy? Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Vide) Comments