FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement • Hacker News Board

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 11:14 PM UTC

bazerka wrote: post #8

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.

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Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by Rusky » Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 11:14 PM UTC

bazerka wrote: post #8

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.

It's already extremely interesting with libclang, clang's static analyzer, clang's auto-completion, clang's error messages, clang's compile times, etc.

I am really looking forward to lldb though.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by cinch » Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 11:16 PM UTC

ZFS supports deduplication with this release.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by noselasd » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 12:15 AM UTC

octopus wrote: post #6

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

Does this mean that all of the FreeBSD base is also compiled with clang ?

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by cperciva » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 12:16 AM UTC

noselasd wrote: post #14

octopus wrote: post #6

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

Does this mean that all of the FreeBSD base is also compiled with clang ?

Yes.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by xxiao » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 12:37 AM UTC

hope linux can match up, esp on ZFS

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by kermitthehermit » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 1:01 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #2

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

That's great, good work!

How about using them on something EC2 compatible, outside of EC2? Are they available somewhere?

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by boyter » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 1:02 AM UTC

xxiao wrote: post #16

hope linux can match up, esp on ZFS

I doubt ZFS is ever going to be worth using on Linux unless ZFS has its licence changed. My guess is that a new or existing file-system will implement ZFS's ideas and become usable long before that happens.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by cperciva » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 1:05 AM UTC

kermitthehermit wrote: post #17

cperciva wrote: post #2

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

That's great, good work! How about using them on something EC2 compatible, outside of EC2? Are they available somewhere?

I'm not sure what you mean by "something EC2 compatible, outside of EC2"...

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by kermitthehermit » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 1:12 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #19

kermitthehermit wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great, good work! How about using them on something EC2 compatible, outside of EC2? Are they available somewhere?

I'm not sure what you mean by "something EC2 compatible, outside of EC2"...

I'm sorry, I should've mentioned.

I was talking about deploying these images on EC2 compatible clouds - like openstack / Eucalyptus.

Some of us aren't customers of Amazon's EC2 service, so it would be nice if there was some sort of "how to" build these AMIs.

Other than that, I'm happy to see a new FreeBSD release.