FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, January-March 2014

http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.html

by bado • 12 years ago

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01612• 12 years ago

This report has only made me want to try FreeBSD even more at some point.

Some highlights for me were:

- FreeBSD on Chromebook - Chromium port - Improved Wine port

wcfields• 12 years ago

Ha, you beat me to it! https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Chromebook

I bought a refurb Acer C720 4gb and have found it perfect for everyday tasks / general use with Ubuntu installed.

ketralnis• 12 years ago

I haven't been able to find the 4gb model, where did you get it?

btgeekboy• 12 years ago

I've similar feelings about ZFSGuru. Never heard of it before; might download it and give it a whirl.

danford2• 12 years ago

I love FreeBSD and was planning on switching some servers from Linux but found that it consumed about 25% more power than my Linux boxes (even after extensive power management tweaks) and in the end didn't have much advantage.

It's not hard to install freeBSD in a VM, set up ssh, run it headless, and ssh in. I suggest you give it a go. It's a great learning experience.

networked• 12 years ago

I love FreeBSD and was planning on switching some servers from Linux but found that it consumed about 25% more power than my Linux boxes

Wow, I wouldn't have thought there would be such a dramatic difference in power consumption on anything but portable hardware. Did you try to measure the CPU and I/O usage on your servers and compare them between Linux and FreeBSD? I wonder if FreeBSD's greater power draw was due to its ACPI implementation or if the average system load was also higher (ZFS?).

mfb• 12 years ago

I'd be interested to see some benchmarks comparing Linux and FreeBSD power usage. Personally I've been impressed w/ power management on FreeBSD 10 using recent hardware - once I enabled powerd and set the powerd_flags - but I haven't installed Linux on the same hardware.

Touche• 12 years ago

FreeBSD is a fantastic operating system and this report highlights why. Documentation is something the team takes very seriously; as important as the code itself, so if you're impressed by this high-quality report you'll be even more impressed by how easy it is to find your way around FreeBSD because of the documentation.

01612• 12 years ago

I too noticed the quality of the report. I know what it is and what it is for as soon as I start reading. Well laid out, succinct, contact details and further links for each item.

It's all very encouraging.

hf• 12 years ago

Enticing; depth and vision. Coherence is always tricky, but, to my mind, they pull it off.

To be quite honest: Debian/kFreeBSD is still my version of FreeBSD, but that's just laziness.

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, January-March 2014

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