The FreeBSD Project has announced their status report for the third quarter of 2006. This report covers topics such as GJournal, Xen, DTrace, ZFS, iSCSI and the ARM port. Also, there is a lot of information about upcoming BSD conferences.
The FreeBSD Project has announced their status report for the third quarter of 2006. This report covers topics such as GJournal, Xen, DTrace, ZFS, iSCSI and the ARM port. Also, there is a lot of information about upcoming BSD conferences.
There are a lot of very good things happening in the FreeBSD world. Patch management for the base system and updating ports is becoming easier than ever. Stability is once again approaching the level of 4.x. Finally, there is a lot of performance improvements everywhere and a lot of fresh new/conservative ideas for scalability. FreeBSD 6.2 is going to be great. And once support for 4.x and 5.x ends, the FreeBSD team will be free to just look ahead and focus on the multicore future. Kudos to the best “free as in free” OS on the planet.
It really is my favourite OS and I’m sleeping much happier when knowing that FreeBSD is running my servers.
There are a lot of new ideas coming up and I can’t wait for them to be ready like full zfs support.
Hope that nobody forgets to donate to the FreeBSD Foundation as well.
I can’t believe no one is posting about all this. It’s a great list of changes. From the status report, it looks like FreeBSD is starting to really pick up steam again, after a tough couple of years. I’m glad that all involved have persevered.
There’s some great stuff going on in networking and filesystems, as well as re-worked USB drivers, and Linux 2.6 kernel compatibility mode.
And as a musician, I personally can’t wait to start playing with the new sound system. I think FreeBSD has the makings of a great audio workstation (better than Linux and Windows, maybe better than Mac), if only the hardware manufacturers would provide a little more support (and if only the open-source audio software would get a little more mature). I have never ever had an audio-related crash or error on FreeBSD, even with heavy mixing.
FreeBSD 6.2 will be a milestone release because finally the 5.x transition times are over, 6.x is a completely different FreeBSD since 4.x … 4.x lays in our minds as the rock solid stable thin FreeBSD but you have to realize that technology is growing and FreeBSD has to move on… This is getting better every day, and if people would collaborate a little more on testing and posting PR’s this could even go faster
btw, rycamor, I now have HDA (still limited) support on my laptops
It took one year to get official sound (and 3 months to get some ultra beta driver from ariff@) but it finally came!
How does FreeBSD’s default install security compare to OpenBSD’s? Can FreeBSD be made as secure as OpenBSD, or does OpenBSD’s security go beyond installing the OS with the only services turned on are the ones that are “needed”?
FreeBSD and desktop oriented distribution like PC-BSD needs journaling filesystem badly, so porting ZFS and designing Gjournal filesystems is godsent. Thank you Pawel Jakub Dawidek for your hard work- keep it going!
Thoug unrlated to the status of FreeBSD, here is a tribute to the new logo of FreeBSD. Coceived and produced by my colleages. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoi…
What application did you use to make the movie and on what OS was the application run?
It was done with Maya on Win XP