FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/announce.html

by udp • 15 years ago

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cperciva4• 15 years ago

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

kermitthehermit3• 15 years ago

That's great, good work!

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

cperciva4• 15 years ago

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

kev009• 15 years ago

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

JOnAgain• 15 years ago

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?

jensnockert• 15 years ago

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

zcid• 15 years ago

It's possible if you have a PS3 with the old firmware.

jaryd2• 15 years ago

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/

cookiecaper2• 15 years ago

This project does sound awesome and the release announcement is the first I'd heard of it.

However, there are a couple of issues. First, it appears that the patch set is no longer maintained. For the FreeBSD people out there, does inclusion in FreeBSD mean that that project has assumed the responsibility of porting the patches while they're needed, or should we just assume that FreeBSD 10 won't include the patches if a new SSH server comes out and the patches are not updated against it?

Also, this thread: http://lwn.net/Articles/377723 on LWN, containing input from an OpenSSH contributor (djm), claims that the HPN patches will not help until you are transferring at ~160Mbit/s @ 100ms lag and encourages normal users to benchmark the connection speed difference before assuming HPN will be faster for them. This is much higher than most anyone will get over the public internet, so should it be assumed that HPN is no longer necessary? Note also that thread is about OpenSSH 5.4. Have there been further improvements that have made the patchset even less necessary?

jaryd2• 15 years ago

You raise some interesting points. 1) What makes it look like the project is no longer maintained? The latest patch release on the website is for 5.8p1 -- this is just 1 point beneath current (http://openbsd.org.ar/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/). 2) Great question. I would be interested in seeing the response this gets from the FBSD mailing list. 3) It is true that it is challenging (or rare) to get public internet speeds that will make HPN worthwhile, however I find HPN most useful on a LAN (typically within the same datacenter). I perform most of my data replication with rsync over HPN-SSH. It's multi-threaded and generally cuts CPU load over time. Thanks for linking to that thread over on LWN -- that was an interesting read.

octopus• 15 years ago

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

bazerka• 15 years ago

It'll be far more interesting when lldb matures.

Rusky• 15 years ago

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.

noselasd• 15 years ago

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

cperciva4• 15 years ago

Yes.

mkup• 15 years ago

Does it support installation to ZFS out of the box?

troll24601• 15 years ago

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.

cinch• 15 years ago

ZFS supports deduplication with this release.

xxiao• 15 years ago

hope linux can match up, esp on ZFS

boyter2• 15 years ago

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.

Florin_Andrei• 15 years ago

btrfs

antoncohen• 15 years ago

If you're thinking of running FreeBSD on your desktop, checkout PC-BSD 9, it's a more desktop (dev workstation) friendly version of FreeBSD.

http://www.pcbsd.org/

bombless• 15 years ago

Wow,hard to understand the FreeBSD installing menu, so ...hope I can become smarter.Should try some modified distribution

Ixiaus2• 15 years ago

There are no "distributions"

niels_olson• 15 years ago

BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution

PC-BSD: based on FreeBSD

jvdh• 15 years ago

Erm, the new bsdinstall menu is about as simple as they could get. You have the option how to use your disk, with an "Automate" option to let the installer do it for you. Then there are four sets of "packages" that you may want to have installed, and then some options to define the configuration of your keyboard, location, timezone, et cetera.

In all, I think the bsdinstall is really a big step forward for FreeBSD.

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