FreeBSD 8 released

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes.html

by ptn • 17 years ago

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uggedal2• 17 years ago

I'll try to put it on my EEE 900 this weekend (which is running Arch at the moment)

josephkern• 17 years ago

You just read my mind. I've got a Dell 2100 with Arch on it, and I was just looking for a freeBSD usb image.

durin42• 17 years ago

Post some recent instructions if you get it working? I had numerous problems with networking (which I solved) and swap/RAM overhead (which I didn't) when I tried installing to my Eee 900.

uggedal2• 17 years ago

According to this list it should work: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee#head-6d00dcb960b731976447f25...

antimora• 17 years ago

FreeBSD 4.2 was my first copy. I had so much fun tinkering with it. It's still my favorite unix os.

hello_moto• 17 years ago

Sometime I wish FreeBSD and OpenBSD are more popular than Linux...

jodrellblank• 17 years ago

Sometimes I think half the opensource advocats are offering me tweaks and utilities to make Windows and OS X more like {star}nix so everything can be The One True Way, and the other half are trying to convince me that all the {star}nix variants are life changingly different and charmingly unique.

GeneralMaximus2• 17 years ago

Mac OS X is already UNIX. In fact, OS X implements more of POSIX than Linux.

timdorr• 17 years ago

Technically this is already true, since OS X is a FreeBSD variant and is more popular than Linux (at least in the desktop world).

But I know what you mean. I actually host two development servers for FreeBSD and employ one of the core devs (laszlof). I'm trying to help! :)

enneff2• 17 years ago

The kernel is different, and the userland is different. OS X may be FreeBSD-derived, but it has moved a long way from its roots since then.

enneff2• 17 years ago

Great! Just in time for me to build my new ZFS-based file server. =)

pquerna2• 17 years ago

FreeBSD 7/8 are really starting to feel like the decisions made in 5.x are starting the pay off. Between the ULE Scheduler, ZFS filesystem, DTrace (even if not as good as on Solaris) and the new Jails, Its a pretty sweet technology packed release.

Hopefully we will be upgrading some of the apache.org server soon :)

ThinkWriteMute2• 17 years ago

Speaking of Apache, why do none of the Linux distros use YAWS? It's always Apache.

nailer• 17 years ago

Both Fedora and Ubuntu include nginx. The reason Apache HTTPd is the default is because people know it (that said, I don't entirely agree with that reasoning).

joeyo• 17 years ago

Debian has it.

  joey@mute:~$ apt-cache search yaws
  yaws - High performance HTTP 1.1 webserver written in Erlang

rbanffy4• 17 years ago

If you want ZFS and DTrace, is there a good reason to prefer FreeBSD to OpenSolaris?

pquerna2• 17 years ago

Because the FreeBSD userland enviroment and ports collection are sane, and there is a reasonable way to do upgrades, while with OpenSolaris you have... what?

tsuraan• 17 years ago

The big one is that there's a pretty good chance FBSD will run on your hardware, and there's a really slim chance that OpenSolaris will. Solaris just doesn't have the driver selection that BSDs or Linux have.

oomkiller• 17 years ago

FreeBSD seems to make more sense to me than Solaris or OpenSolaris. I always have to go looking for HOWTOs on simple things. Plus, there is more available for it, and IMO it has a better community.

tibbon• 17 years ago

Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying

rbanffy4• 17 years ago

Does FreeBSD have something like Synaptic?

mpakes• 17 years ago

FreeBSD setups typically use the BSD Ports collection for package management, which compiles from source + patches (vaguely similar to Gentoo Linux).

There doesn't appear to be a mainstream UI for BSD ports.

(Curiously, the Mac OS X equivalent, MacPorts, has at least two current UI projects.)

Dobbs• 17 years ago

To append to what your are saying this is because ports is set up for unix people to work it.

To search you use ls, cd, and find. To install you "cd <dir> && make install".

If you are installing freebsd you should already be comfortable enough to not need a pretty gui hiding these very simple details.

thomas11• 17 years ago

FreeBSD also has a binary package management system, see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/packages-using..... The ports take precedence, though, in that they can have newer versions and not all packages on all architectures may be available as binaries.

FreeBSD 8 released

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