> Wireless support for 802.11n has been added. Wait, What?
IIRC, OpenBSD added 802.11n support in a recent release.
FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
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Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a full time developer, you are correct that the relnotes don't capture all the great stuff. It is difficult to keep track of all that is going on. The only way I know how is to continuously read the commit logs. But distilling that down into a useful document for end users is quite hard, especially retroactively. I will say that the release has non-trivial improvements in TCP performance (Mike Karels, Matt Macy, N…
>I will say that the release has non-trivial improvements in TCP performance For your average home / small business user? Or do you need to be at Netflix scale to see the benefits? (that's not a bad thing).
It matters most for people doing 10-100gbps throughput, CPU usage will be lower and more stable in all cases though.
There has been a lot of improvement to many network card drivers in 11, and I am helping to push/fund the final integration of Matt Macy's "iflib" for the common intel em/igb/ixgbe drivers.
There are a lot of goodput improvements coming soon, which will affect all TCP users. I had Matt Macy upgrade TCP CUBIC to match 2016 RFC and most Linux behaviors (HyStart). Hiren Panchasara has been working full time for almost 2 years to address many other goodput and correctness issues in the TCP stack. Some of these are in 11, but the majority will hit in 11.1.
Another company is working on the recently announced BBR congestion control from Google and a TCP stack with RACK/PRR https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/201606/Transport. The end result of all this will be a more tightly integrated and coherent TCP implementation, which should make FreeBSD have the best network stack again in 2017 after falling behind for a while.
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#83Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I will say that the release has non-trivial improvements in TCP performance For your average home / small business user? Or do you need to be at Netflix scale to see the benefits? (that's not a bad thing).
It matters most for people doing 10-100gbps throughput, CPU usage will be lower and more stable in all cases though. There has been a lot of improvement to many network card drivers in 11, and I am helping to push/fund the final integration of Matt Macy's "iflib" for the common intel em/igb/ixgbe drivers. There are a lot of goodput improvements coming soon, which will affect all TCP users. I had Matt Macy upgrade TCP…
Heh, I'll have to try moving back to CUBIC then. I've had lots of problems with throughput to sites with latency >= 300ms, since FreeBSD 9.
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#85I still have hope some or all HardendedBSD features might get ported or reimplemented in FreeBSD 12. Too much low hanging fruit, and now that linux has been steadily closing the gap to grsec, the competition in mainstream kernel branches is on.
HardenedBSD is one of the bigger jokes in the BSD community. If you really care about the things it claims to do, I highly recommend using OpenBSD because it actually has competent and sustainable development.
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#86A couple things HN users might be excited about: * Docker via ZFS and jails (...running Linux x84-64 binaries): https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker --- (See also, https://github.com/3ofcoins/jetpack ) * Add support for trackpads found in Apple MacBook products: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=26126... * CloudABI executable support: https://nuxi.nl/cloudabi/freebsd/ This is an awesome release.
Also, support for running Apple's Swift language.
I thought swills or feld... someone had Swift working. My memory may be getting this wrong.
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#87I think the highlights don't mention the release's best bits. The full release notes are way larger and it really depends on what you do, what you might consider the most interesting part. Also I am happy to see a bunch of "Sponsored by..." Netflix, Yandex, NGINX Inc, Netgate, Citrix, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Dell, Multiplay, ScaleEngine, etc. in there. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/relnotes.html
Reading the release notes indicates they are still working on their EFI/uEFI support. I've also noticed a lot of other free OSes that seem to be struggling with it.
Is EFI really that complicated? I also ask because it doesn't seem to me that EFI hasn't really made the PC better for anyone other than Microsoft and Apple.
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even the last release supports full ZFS+encryption with the default installer.
This is still geli+zfs, and not native zfs encryption that was recently presented in OpenZFS Developer Summit [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frnLiXclAMo
Correct, it is full disk encryption instead of dataset encryption.
But on the other hand, if you install 11.0 from installer and chose Auto(ZFS) with EncryptedZFS and MBR(GPT) then you will get a GeliBoot installation. There is no boot pool anymore, instead the early boot stages decrypt the root zpool to load the rest of the boatloader, which then decrypts the pool to load the kernel. With bootloader-selectable boot environments.
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#89I think the highlights don't mention the release's best bits. The full release notes are way larger and it really depends on what you do, what you might consider the most interesting part. Also I am happy to see a bunch of "Sponsored by..." Netflix, Yandex, NGINX Inc, Netgate, Citrix, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Dell, Multiplay, ScaleEngine, etc. in there. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/relnotes.html
Reading the release notes indicates they are still working on their EFI/uEFI support. I've also noticed a lot of other free OSes that seem to be struggling with it. Is EFI really that complicated? I also ask because it doesn't seem to me that EFI hasn't really made the PC better for anyone other than Microsoft and Apple.
UEFI boot just works, for the most part.
11.0 doesn't have support for EFI runtime services, but a lot of that has been added to CURRENT (which will become 12.0 and maybe make it into 11.1 via backport) very recently.
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, support for running Apple's Swift language.
I thought swills or feld... someone had Swift working. My memory may be getting this wrong.
landonf got it running initially. https://twitter.com/landonfuller/status/672671872660598784