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Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by lucaspiller »

nickysielicki wrote: post #3

A 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.

Is anyone using FreeBSD on their development machine? Are there any gotchas compared to Linux?

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by drvdevd »

lucaspiller wrote: post #31
nickysielicki wrote: post #3

A 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.

Is anyone using FreeBSD on their development machine? Are there any gotchas compared to Linux?

I've used it on and off for many years. It makes for a fine development environment. #1 gotcha is what you'd expect: commodity hardware support. Purchase a machine that's known to be good for FreeBSD...

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by laxd »

lucaspiller wrote: post #31
nickysielicki wrote: post #3

A 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.

Is anyone using FreeBSD on their development machine? Are there any gotchas compared to Linux?

It really depends on what kind of development you do. It's great as long as the tools you need are actually supported. And the tools would presumably work the same on linux so it's more a matter of what kind of system you prefer to administer. I just switched to linux on my main machine after 12 years due to getting hooked on the jetbrains crack. That and the lack of dart-sdk/dartium. I'd switch back if those two things got supported.

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by drvdevd »

tete wrote: post #22
nickysielicki wrote: post #3

A 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.

Jetpack is in my (personal and completely biased) opinion the even more interesting project. It's the implementation of the App Container specification (like rkt). Just pointing it out cause it was only mentioned in brackets.

Yes this is a fascinating project. You've inspired/reminded me to watch the bsdcan presentation: https://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/events/574.en.html

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by djsumdog »

oskarth wrote: post #11
vbit wrote: post #9

Often gets lost in the release notes - deploying on Google cloud is super easy: % gcloud compute instances create INSTANCE --image freebsd-11-0-release-p1-amd64 --image-project=freebsd-org-cloud-dev % gcloud compute ssh INSTANCE

Wow, nice. Do you know how straightforward it is to get it with ZFS?

Even the last release supports full ZFS+encryption with the default installer.

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by djsumdog »

lucaspiller wrote: post #31
nickysielicki wrote: post #3

A 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.

Is anyone using FreeBSD on their development machine? Are there any gotchas compared to Linux?

I started using it on my X1 carbon. It installed fine. I hadn't used it since 2006, and I was quite impressed with the binary package manager and init/service system (I'm not a big systemd fan).

I'd still be using it, but I got the laptop used and it has had frequent reboot problems (even on Linux) and I get an error when I try to update the bios. I looked up the beep code and it just says the motherboard is bad and to send it in for warranty. :(

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by drvdevd »

erikarn wrote: post #30
mankash666 wrote: post #19

"Wireless support for 802.11n has been added" C'mon FreeBSD! We're in the 802.11ac era! As much as I love BSD, they're always a couple of years behind the status quo

Hi! FreeBSD wifi person here! * ath(4)'s 11n support is much, much better now. All the AR93xx/AR95xx PCIe devices are supported and STA/AP 11n should work great. * iwn(4)'s 11n is much, much better. It still has some warts, and I'd love some help in chasing them down. * urtwn(4) in -HEAD does 11n now. * rsu(4) in -HEAD does 11n now. * iwm(4) (intel 7260, etc) is getting better every day in freebsd and dragonflybsd. T…

Thank you for your efforts! This is great. I personally don't know a ton about wireless but am not opposed to digging in and contributing or testing when/if I have time/hardware. Which leads me to a question: what about 11ac is revolutionary if it's just a few bits away from a completed 11n codebase? Just curious.

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by floatboth »

djsumdog wrote: post #35
oskarth wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, nice. Do you know how straightforward it is to get it with ZFS?

Even the last release supports full ZFS+encryption with the default installer.

But you don't use the installer with "cloud" / VPS providers. It's usually more like cloning a VM image where the system is already installed.

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by crudbug »

erikarn wrote: post #30
mankash666 wrote: post #19

"Wireless support for 802.11n has been added" C'mon FreeBSD! We're in the 802.11ac era! As much as I love BSD, they're always a couple of years behind the status quo

Hi! FreeBSD wifi person here! * ath(4)'s 11n support is much, much better now. All the AR93xx/AR95xx PCIe devices are supported and STA/AP 11n should work great. * iwn(4)'s 11n is much, much better. It still has some warts, and I'd love some help in chasing them down. * urtwn(4) in -HEAD does 11n now. * rsu(4) in -HEAD does 11n now. * iwm(4) (intel 7260, etc) is getting better every day in freebsd and dragonflybsd. T…

Thanks Adrian. I am not a device drivers person. But, quick query - do you reuse the current Linux drivers work [0].

Looking at the current client device deployment, Intel owns around 80% of the Wi-Fi modem market. Is anybody from Intel working on BSD wireless drivers as well.

[0] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers

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