FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by udp » Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 9:00 PM UTC

FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement
freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by cperciva » Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 9:45 PM UTC

FreeBSD AMIs are available for m1.large and larger EC2 instances: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by kev009 » Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 9:47 PM UTC

This release is a nice piece of kit for storage systems even if you're married to other OSes elsewhere.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by JOnAgain » Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 9:56 PM UTC

Double-take >> The powerpc architecture now supports Sony Playstation 3

Is this actually possible now? or is the PS3 still locked to prevent actually installing this?

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by jaryd » Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 9:56 PM UTC

It's awesome that they're including High Performance SSH (HPN-SSH) by default. This is a great project that deserves more attention: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by octopus » Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 10:06 PM UTC

They also have clang which make this an interesting alternative to gcc for C and C++ developers.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by jensnockert » Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 10:12 PM UTC

JOnAgain wrote: post #4

Double-take >> The powerpc architecture now supports Sony Playstation 3 Is this actually possible now? or is the PS3 still locked to prevent actually installing this?

It supports only the old other-OS feature that Sony removed.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by bazerka » Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 10:44 PM UTC

octopus wrote: post #6

They also have clang which make this an interesting alternative to gcc for C and C++ developers.

It'll be far more interesting when lldb matures.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by mkup » Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 10:53 PM UTC

Does it support installation to ZFS out of the box?

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by troll24601 » Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 10:57 PM UTC

mkup wrote: post #9

Does it support installation to ZFS out of the box?

No. If you want ZFS root out of the box, you need to follow a guide like:

http://www.aisecure.net/2011/11/28/root-zfs-freebsd9/

It's roughly the same state as it was during FreeBSD8 except that some of the details are different due to the new installer.