FreeBSD 13.1 has been released, and as the version number signifies, this is not a major release, so don’t expect any massive changes. Lots of various core packages of the operating system have been updated to their most recent versions, like OpenSSH, OpenSLL, and ZFS, there’s the usual driver updates, and a whole slew of fixes.
How is your FreeBSD journey going Thom? 🙂
I’m dead keen to hear any user feedback as well.
FreeBSD is the one OS that has caused me more pain than any other, while I have colleagues who swear by it in the R&D realm, I have never been able to find a reliable hardware solutions. I was always losing something useful in order to get FreeBSD loaded.
It was so problematic for me I think I have developed the OS version of hostage syndrome, and now I cannot ignore giving it a run pretty much every time it posts a release.
Can someone BSD experienced tell me – is NetBSD or FreeBSD more stable and efficient on non-desktops usage?
Both are stable. All BSDs pride themselves on stability.
FreeBSD is simplest for plain Intel/AMD servers and ARM also has top-tier support, now.
NetBSD is especially useful for the range of non-Intel architectures that are supported.
BSDs and linux at this point are rock solid stable.
For modern x86 HW I don’t know if NetBSD makes any sense over FreeBSD.
Hey, FreeBSD stable has ASLR now! Very nice. I wonder what the status of Clang CFI in the base system is (as opposed to just in HardenedBSD), and of application sandboxes such as in Chromium and Firefox.