I've had the chance to meet several of the developers at the BSDCan conferences; kudos people, you really deserve it.

I moved to BSD world when Debian adopted SystemD and I am happy that I did. It is often said that Linux is more stable then Windows, well BSD could be considered like Granite compared to Linux. I really love it. OpenBSD for the edge, and FreeBSD for internals and workstations.

The driver updates are very welcome too, getting my video card to work 4k@60Hz was a bit of a task finding the correct driver, but I see this update addresses that too.

Once again, thank-you to everybody who contributes.

I have been trying out FreeBSD 12 as a desktop using the "TrueOS" distribution[1], as a UNIX user it has been very refreshing. I did this because the Ubuntu 18.04 experience felt to me strongly that the Linux community was focused on turning the desktop into a Windows clone.

[1] https://www.trueos.org/

The biggest thing I'm waiting for with FreeBSD is the TLS sendfile work that Netflix has done. They have said a few times they are open to open sourcing it, but the code needs to be cleaned up.

Also I'm interested in whats been going on with concurrencykit[1]? I saw it got imported into the kernel a couple years ago[2]. What's the progress on incorporating concurrencykit?

[1]: http://concurrencykit.org/

[2]: https://www.freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/src/309260

My 10 year old Dell XPS M1330 with Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 and 4 GB RAM with original HDD still running strong, had 11.2 installed on it. I just finished updating it to 12.0 release without any issues. I have only good things to say. I use Xfce. The filesystem is ZFS.

A while back, I took a snapshot of /root and installed Gnome 3. It was too big for my laptop. I rolled back. The snapshot and rollback were amazingly fast.

I find FreeBSD more cohesive. I have not tried it on modern devices, but my experience with it on my decade old laptop and VMs is extremely positive.

A similar cohesiveness is achieved only when I handcraft my Arch. Maybe, it is just the feeling.

Sweet, I've been waiting for VIAMGE to be default for awhile. VIMAGE was the main reason I custom compiled FreeBSD for the last few years.

Neat! I haven't yet found the commit that did it, but it appears that dtrace's stop(), which was broken in 11.2-RELEASE, now doesn't cause kernel panics.

Also interesting:

> The dtrace(1) utility has been updated to support if and else statements.

I believe that it's only a change in the front-end parser and that logic of this sort is still implemented via the old predicate/multiple clauses trick, but some syntactic sugar is still welcome.

The only thing keeping me away from using BSD is the WiFi support. If it started supporting 802.11ac, I'd switch in a heartbeat.

Aawww, I just upgraded my home server from 11.1 to 11.2, now I have to do it again? Fortunately, upgrading FreeBSD is a lot more convenient these days than it used to be.

Any practical advantage of using *BSD on workstation over Linux at this moment? I heard that most of BSD developers use macOS, so the hardware compatibility is terrible.

I setup my (decade) old laptop as a server running on FreeBSD. And the elaborate documentation is a real lifesaver, especially as someone who is new to the ecosystem. Even, for the obscure hardware specific setup (yea, looking at you sony vaio), I could find relevant information on their forum which interestingly had relevant information from ages ago.

Really great job guys and thank you! Can't wait to upgrade!

I was so close (about a nanometer!) to adopting FreeBSD as my desktop OS due to it's plethora of software, amazing package management, great usage of RAM, and roots in true Unix, but one sad day, I installed WINE. It was working with all the applications I expected it to, except for one... Steam. The WINE version was too old. I tried and tried again, even compiling it straight from the staging git branch, but it didn't compile. Alas, FreeBSD is my server OS. It keeps my at least a bit sane knowing I have FreeBSD somewhere in my home.

I was considering setting up a new desktop machine with either OpenBSD or DesktopBSD (which is based on FreeBSD). Does anyone have any recommendations on which to choose? Any interesting experiences using BSD as a daily driver?

As a long term FreeBSD user who was bitten by recent (8 up to 11) source update issues I would have loved a disclaimer upfront: "we broke it again" or "we finally got back to normal"....

"pNFS server support"

Very welcome suprise! I was excited about pNFS four years ago, but couldn't find any open source system to play with. Finally it is time for some mirrored pNFS testing.

No BBR yet.

Some of the highlights:

     * OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1a (LTS).

     * Unbound has been updated to version 1.8.1, and DANE-TA has been
       enabled by default.

     * OpenSSH has been updated to version 7.8p1.

     * Additonal capsicum(4) support has been added to sshd(8).

     * Clang, LLVM, LLD, LLDB, compiler-rt and libc++ has been updated to
       version 6.0.1.

     * The vt(4) Terminus BSD Console font has been update to version 4.46.

     * The bsdinstall(8) utility now supports UEFI+GELI as an installation
       option.

     * The VIMAGE kernel configuration option has been enabled by default.

     * The NUMA option has been enabled by default in the amd64 GENERIC and
       MINIMAL kernel configurations.

     * The netdump(4) driver has been added, providing a facility through
       which kernel crash dumps can be transmitted to a remote host after a
       system panic.

     * The vt(4) driver has been updated with performance improvements,
       drawing text at rates ranging from 2- to 6-times faster.

     * Various improvements to graphics support for current generation
       hardware.

     * Support for capsicum(4) has been enabled on armv6 and armv7 by
       default.

     * The UFS/FFS filesystem has been updated to consolidate
       TRIM/BIO_DELETE commands, reducing read/write requests due to fewer
       TRIM messages being sent simultaneously.

     * The NFS version 4.1 server has been updated to include pNFS server
       support.

     * The pf(4) packet filter is now usable within a jail(8) using vnet(9).

     * The bhyve(8) utility has been updated to add NVMe device emulation.

     * The bhyve(8) utility is now able to be run withing a jail(8).

     * Various Lua loader(8) improvements.

     * KDE has been updated to version 5.12.5.

please delete this comment, I was commenting on the wrong thread!