FreeBSD 10.0 is here

But now it looks like it's catching up, and has some nice userspace tools, and some features that I don't even think zfs has (like the option to do overwrite-in-place, but you give up checksums/compression).

The user tools seem worse than zfs, but it does look like btrfs will be a leading filesystem soon.

penland• 13 years ago

It's worth trying to grind through a few months of Free-BSD after using Linux to get a feel for it. One of my favorite quotes on the differences is, "FreeBSD is what you get when a bunch of old school Unix beard brigade hackers sit down to write a port to the PC. Linux is what you get when you take a bunch of hackers raised on Windows and PCs that try to port Unix to the PC". In a lot of ways that is two sides of the same coin, but really digging in to the BSD way of things opens up a new view point on Operating Systems . . . FreeBSD old school Unix assembly versus NASM, the Kqueue vs ePoll system implementations, FreeBSD's near instantaneous embrace for ZFS while the Linux community held back for "OS theological" concerns over the FileSystem implementation.

I've jumped between Debian and FreeBSD for my development boxes for a few years now. To butcher Dijkstra, "Operating Systems shape developers as much as violins shape violinists". When I find myself on FreeBSD I make great use of D-Trace - running vagrant FreeBSD boxes, the pulling the trace output into Instruments to analyze. With the release of Trim for ZFS, ZFS pooling for logging should be obscenely fast and offer some serious performance increases for things like proper Hadoop workloads. When I find myself on Debian I'm enthralled by the ease of use around layouts and the API ( kqueue / epoll excluded ). The package management system is far superior to portsnap, though neither system really does modern package management really well imo.

Personally, I think it's worth trying to run BSD and all it's tools just to understand the system better, and to see how it influences you as a developer. The active utilization of D-Trace changed me as an engineer just as much when I first started using functional programming concepts in my regular code

vixen99• 13 years ago

'its tools'.

nomurrcy• 13 years ago

I switched a personal server over to freebsd (8 or so at the time) a while ago after battling with zfs on linux. (I was hitting some strange issues at the time which I can't really even remember at present)

After getting over the initial learning curve (files being in different places than I expect / named different things etc) I have really come to like freebsd. You get the sense that everything has been designed to fit together a bit more than the linux distros. I had been using ubutnu before and I got really tired of how much constantly changed between releases. With bsd I'm able to get very up to date software via the ports tree, but the overall 'system' design doesn't seem to change as much between releases as it did in linux land.

The freebsd handbook is great and makes it super easy to get up and running. I certainly don't think the differences for everyday use between freebsd / debian for example are enormous, but I plan on using freebsd for most of my boxes from now on, its just been really painless to work with.

lmm3• 13 years ago

If you want cool updates stick with linux. If you want a solid system that you can update feeling confident you're not going to break anything, on the other hand...

tachion5• 13 years ago

Dont get me wrong, but <joke>why should anyone choose Linux over a FreeBSD?</joke> ;)

profquail8• 13 years ago

If you have a torrent client that supports web seeding, you can use these magnet links to download from the official HTTP/FTP servers and simultaneously help seed the torrent, in case the servers get overwhelmed:

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Links to download .torrent files if the magnet links don't work for you:

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skrause• 13 years ago

My Transmission is stuck in "torrent metadata needed", so it fails to download the actual torrent file from the Magnet link. Do you have some directy links to the torrent files?

profquail8• 13 years ago

Yes -- I've edited my post to include links to the actual .torrent files now.

revnja3• 13 years ago

Thanks! This is really helpful, I'm seeding all from a 1Gbps pipe in the US. I'll be trying out the new release later today!

profquail8• 13 years ago

Awesome, thanks for helping with the seeding! I'll also be trying out the new release today :)

voltagex_• 13 years ago

Your local university, ISP or user group may also have a mirror for the images.

antihero• 13 years ago

Popped this on my seedbox. I do feel wonderfully dirty downloading a FreeBSD torrent from Microsoft SkyDrive.

tachion5• 13 years ago

The iso's are there, but there was no official release announcement yet, and because of that I would hold your horses for now - until the announcement has been sent out, those can be replaced in case of any issues.

cperciva5• 13 years ago

... in fact, that already happened once, a few days ago.

sydney65• 13 years ago

Wasn't r260665 already an 10.0 RELEASE build?

revnja3• 13 years ago

This release has official Raspberry Pi support! Definitely trying this out.

pwenzel2• 13 years ago

Is it possible to boot FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img directly on a Raspberry Pi? Or do I have to compile my own image for the Pi?

revnja3• 13 years ago

I'm going to guess not as it is marked as being compatible with amd64, you will need an ARM build (arm 6, I believe) for the Raspberry Pi. I'm sure a third party will eventually post a pre-compiled version somewhere fairly soon.

octo_t• 13 years ago

raspberry pi's are ARM and amd64 is amd64 (for intel/amd processors)

jsmith0295• 13 years ago

You can't use the amd64 build as the raspberry pi is ARM based. There is likely a raspberry pi build available somewhere though.

takeda4• 13 years ago

As other told you this version is intended to be used on amd64 CPUs, which means the most popular 64 bit CPUs (both Intel and AMD).

The reason they don't provide ARM version of FreeBSD is because embedded systems are not the same and have different setup. Since Raspberry Pi is quite popular I can imagine that someone might build available to other for download but I wouldn't expect FreeBSD project do it (it probably would be someone else - I see link to images here https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi). If you have FreeBSD machine you can compile it yourself.

profquail8• 13 years ago

A good source of information about using FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi is the 'Embedded Computing' section of the FreeBSD forums. If you have any questions, that's probably the best place to ask them too:

http://forums.freebsd.org/viewforum.php?f=11

FreeBSD now also supports several other popular ARM development boards besides the RPi: Wandboard, BeagleBoard, SheevaPlug, etc.

_wmd2• 13 years ago

For the love of goodness, please link to the release notes! Cannot fathom why people do this (and its not just OP - it happens all the time).

http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/10-STABLE/relnotes/article.h...

Most interesting to me, this is the first stable release supporting netmap(4).. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netmap&sektion=4

justin66• 13 years ago

The two common reasons are that they're resubmitting something that's already been submitted the reasonable way or they're letting everyone know before the official release notes have been published. That second one is a little risky sometimes, since it's not uncommon for the linked release directory to be filled with something that turns out not to be correct.

tachion5• 13 years ago

You are linking to 10-STABLE release notes, and 10.0-RELEASE is something else, than STABLE branch. STABLE's are a bit ahead of RELEASE's and are considered to be less stable than RELEASE's - the wording is a bit misleading.

pyvpx• 13 years ago

less stable than release? that's news to me. have any official wording to back that up? I'm intensely curious

ricardobeat• 13 years ago

That doesn't make much sense. In what kind of versioning scheme does a release not contain the same code as the stable branch in a specific version?

In that case calling them "Release notes" is even more confusing...

_wmd2• 13 years ago

Nitpickingly, sure, but mere hours since the release was cut, they're for all intents and purposes identical.

pconf• 13 years ago

It is unfortunate that FreeBSD chose those names to attract people to the pre-release versions. What's needed is a section of the website clarifying:

CURRENT = alpha, dev

STABLE = beta, rc

RELEASE = passed all tests and released

That's not to say that things never break in releases. I've seen gjournalled disks (on a gmirror) require fsck (in 8 and 9 -REL) and carp fail (in 7 -REL). Other than those FreeBSD has been the most reliable, secure and up-to-date of any Unix or Linux distribution I've used. My only request would be a policy discouraging ports with perl build-deps, most of which seem to be one-liners that could easily use awk, sed and/or grep instead of forcing a perl build on every upgrade (most not even bothering to remove the build-deps when done).

signa11• 13 years ago

Most interesting to me, this is the first stable release supporting netmap(4)

is this similar (or better) to linux's pf_ring ?

snoopybbt• 13 years ago

Nothing's on their website yet... I guess HN is pretty fast...

stock_toaster• 13 years ago

They (FreeBSD) typically do builds a few days before announcing the release. See: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/schedule.html

rtpg• 13 years ago

FreeBSD can now address 4 TB of memory, can't wait for us to hit that limit on personal machines

infofarmer• 13 years ago

JVM support does not seem to be a primary focus of the FreeBSD project at the moment.

crest• 13 years ago

Did you read the last batch of erratas?

random_user_kun2• 13 years ago

Does it come with a GUI or not?

tachion5• 13 years ago

It depends what do you mean by GUI: if you're asking if it is a desktop ready release, then no, it doesnt come with GUI, but at any point you can install XFCE/Gnome/KDE on it and turn it into a desktop system. However, you might want to look at PC-BSD which is a FreeBSD based desktop oriented release. If you're asking if it does have graphical installator then yes, it does have ncurses based installator.

takeda4• 13 years ago

FreeBSD targets servers, so after installation you will simply get a text console.

You can install X11 though which by itself is a good experience because it makes you understand how given components interact with each other. They also have great handbook which explains standard administration. Here is section that tells you how to configure X11: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x1...

xenophonf• 13 years ago

Yes, but you'll need to use the PC-BSD distribution instead of the (much smaller/barebones) base FreeBSD distro.

evilgjb4• 13 years ago

The release is never officially "here" until the PGP-signed email is sent to the freebsd-announce@ mailing list.

cperciva5• 13 years ago

In case anyone doesn't recognize the name, this guy here is the FreeBSD 10.0 release engineer.

sydney65• 13 years ago

Yes, of course. It is Mr. Barber, Mr. Percival. I really didn’t want to annoy you guys and i would like to excuse myself if i did, but to me, obviously no one declares a release “production ready” to one’s own environment the day the ISO’s are availiable or the announcement is made. I'm just a FreeBSD User who felt the urge to share his enthusiasm about this with like-minded persons. So, no offence, Ladys and Gentlemen.

hernan6042• 13 years ago

Could someone please explain something here,

If playstation 3 and 4 are a modified FreeBSD, and on the 4th version console the graphics are AMD that means they (sony and amd) have some sort of driver for this platform. And its not a bad one, because they chose AMD for play4.

Why that has not been release to the FreeBSD audience ? When is this expected to happen ?

wmf• 13 years ago

Sony doesn't release anything. Because they don't want to.

Also, I would hope that Mesa drivers work on FreeBSD.

profquail8• 13 years ago

Sony contributes back to FreeBSD. You can find at least a few examples using GitHub search: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/search?q=%22sony+computer...

Note: these aren't the only examples of Sony contributing back to FreeBSD, they were just the easiest to find.

IMO, AMD would really need to be the one to contribute drivers back to FreeBSD.

toyg• 13 years ago

Why should Sony (or AMD) care about FreeBSD? Chances are they picked it because it was the less licence-encumbered freenix they could find.

cperciva5• 13 years ago

The PS4 runs FreeBSD on AMD hardware, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily the same AMD hardware as you or I have access to. If you're buying 50,000,000 units, AMD will design a chip for you.

lucian19004• 13 years ago

Not only that, but they allow quite low level access to the hardware. One would have to build, say, libGL on top of whatever drivers Sony might have built.

belorn2• 13 years ago

If you want to know why, the only way is to ask them.

This is BSD, so the authors want companies to be able to keep the modifications and drivers proprietary if they choose to do so. So in this case, its very much possible that the when is "never" and why is "money".

rubyfan• 13 years ago

Should have called it FreeBSD X

mxey• 13 years ago

A friend of mine made this: http://mxey.net/content/images/2013/Dec/Screen_20Shot_202013...

caycep• 13 years ago

I might play around with this actually, but I think the biggest drawback when I last tried it was I became too impatient to wait for ports to compile the packages. Does it provide some way of doing pre-compiled binaries i.e. like apt?

profquail8• 13 years ago

Yes -- FreeBSD 10 has a new package manager which you can use to install pre-compiled binaries (a la `apt`). If you want to read more about it:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng

https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgPrimer

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html

https://github.com/freebsd/pkg

cperciva5• 13 years ago

To elaborate a bit -- FreeBSD has had packages for a long time, but this new packaging system is more, err, "functional".

grigio• 13 years ago

Now that Freebsd 10 is release can we haz a Freebsd-ZFS/OpenGL vs Linux-ZFS/OpenGL benchmark?

niels_olson2• 13 years ago

Should I use FreeBSD?

This may seem dumb, but, my RAID 1 NAS, powered by various versions of SuSE for 10 years, recently died (autopsy & self-reflection indicate gross user error). So I'm coincidentally shopping around for a new set-up.

I need NFS, transmission-daemon, and mdadm. I've used FreeBSD in a vm and on an old laptop, so I'm slightly familiar, but not like Linux (and I love being able to access SuSE's YAST over SSH)

Why would you pick FreeBSD over SuSE for a home NAS?

josh64• 13 years ago

FreeBSD has pretty decent ZFS support. That would be a good reason for a home NAS.

hhw2• 13 years ago

First and foremost reason, ZFS. But if you're looking for something easy to manage, FreeNAS (based on FreeBSD + ZFS) may be a better option.

niels_olson2• 13 years ago

If I already have the raid 1 under mdadm, what's the path to mirrored Vdevs under zfs? I need more drives?

riddlemethat• 13 years ago

FreeNas was acquired by IX Systems and as of version 8 is no longer m0n0wall based. IX Systems is actually a great company but I don't like this change. If you need to build a NAS with ZFS try out Nas4Free to keep going with the M0n0wall based FreeNAS that we all loved.

lmm3• 13 years ago

Others have mentioned ZFS. I'll add that my experience is that FreeBSD changes things less often and keeps things more compatible when it does (e.g. network configuration still uses ifconfig, freebsd hasn't adopted any experimental init system and is unlikely to until one becomes proven stable) and is thus lower-maintenance.

random_user_kun2• 13 years ago

Guys, I was unable to install it with X and GNOME on virtualbox. Can someone share the working virtualbox snapshot of FreeBSD 10 along with X and GNOME on it so that noob linux users like me can try.

tachion5• 13 years ago

Try PC-BSD, it is FreeBSD based desktop oriented release that will welcome you with GUI installer and will install you the entire windowed ecosystem.

D9u• 13 years ago

I found this, which worked for me:

https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?&t=28804

In Vbox:

Right click on the VM to edit...

Settings > System > Extended Features: Enable IO APIC

3rl• 13 years ago

I'm so happy with this release, thank you FreeBSD team!

ksec• 13 years ago

Is there a CoreOS and Docker equivalent on FreeBSD?

lifeisstillgood• 13 years ago

not sure what coreos is but iirr docker is a manager for LXC - and FreeBSD has had good Jail support for eons. There are two approaches for jails (the LXC equivalent for BSD) - ezjail which I heartily recommend and warden from PCbsd which is more GUI orientated.

I have happily runs dozens of "virtual" instances on one machine and people regularly do hundreds. it's robust secure and low cost in resources.

dschiptsov• 13 years ago

Docker is just leverage of FreeBSD jails which, in turn, were modeled after IBM mainframes.)

insaneirish7• 13 years ago

The only reason CoreOS is interesting is because most Linux distributions are bloated beyond belief.

FreeBSD is not bloated, and as such doesn't need something link CoreOS. And the things that etcd does can be accomplished in numerous other ways.

cm3• 13 years ago

I hope they add exploit mitigation techniques like ASLR (already being worked on for 11) and close the gap to OpenBSD and Windows. Even DragonflyBSD has some level of ASLR. As Theo said adding is one thing but actually enabling it in the default configuration is what counts. ASLR is just one piece of the puzzle and for 11 they should seriously consider implementing enough to match OpenBSD.

garrettdreyfus• 13 years ago

Just installed 9 on a ThinkPad T400 and it is blazing fast with awesome wm.

hernan6042• 13 years ago

Good, now ATI can release their driver for the FreeBSD 10.0 !

FreeBSD 10.0 is here

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