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Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by floatboth »

laxd wrote: post #33
lucaspiller wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 thi…

sudo pkg install intellij :-)

PyCharm/RubyMine/etc. aren't officially supported, you might be able to get them to work by manually doing the same things the intellij port does. But pure IntelliJ IDEA works perfectly.

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by cperciva »

tete wrote: post #23

I 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

I think the highlights don't mention the release's best bits.

It's always challenging to put together those highlights... different people consider different things important, and the release engineer has to guess what the largest number of people will care about. (And sometimes things don't end up in the release notes at all because developers forget to flag their commits with "Relnotes: yes", but we're getting better at that.)

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by doozy »

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…

> Chipsets I won't be working on: USB chipsets, in particular the AR7010+AR9280, AR9271 or the AR9170 chipset

Any plans to support these in the future?

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by platform »

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 do not think Android dev on freebsd works that well

My understanding was that various android emulator features that are better at supporting on Linux or Windows, and do not work on FreeBSD. Happy to be corrected though.

Also if your development depends (or benefits from) ATI device drivers, freeBSD (or any BSD for that matter) is not the best choice.

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by floatboth »

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?

Using FreeBSD -CURRENT on my ThinkPad X240. Mostly works great. Can't resume from suspend on that particular laptop, but I can live without the sleep thing.

For development, it's excellent! (Favorite things: non-GPL not-breaking-compatibility-every-day libc that doesn't cause any problems ever. Simple init system. Simple configuration files, moving towards using libucl everywhere. And libxo for output. Good documentation. Jails. ZFS. DTrace. Capsicum.)

I do get annoyed at people who use linuxisms like "/bin/bash" in their code though >_<

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by loeg »

aphextron wrote: post #39

Does anyone know if FreeBSD supports PHP-FPM 7+? I'm so ready to drop Ubuntu if so

It is enabled by default in the php55, php56, and php70 ports. (See the "FPM" OPTION in all three.)

Does that answer your question? (Sorry, I'm not familiar with PHP.)

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by floatboth »

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.

CloudABI deserves more attention and support. One binary format for multiple unix-like systems. That also enforces sandboxing. Why aren't we using it for everything yet?

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available

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Post by laxd »

floatboth wrote: post #41
laxd wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 thi…

sudo pkg install intellij :-) PyCharm/RubyMine/etc. aren't officially supported, you might be able to get them to work by manually doing the same things the intellij port does. But pure IntelliJ IDEA works perfectly.

I tried the community edition a while back. Can't remember much by now but it definately was'nt the same experience as the commercial one. (Actually I'm using the phpstorm edition).
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