FreeBSD 10.1 released

by tachion on 11/14/2014, 7:11 PM with 59 comments
  • by qopp2 on 11/14/2014, 8:59 PM

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  • by ezequiel-garzon on 11/14/2014, 9:40 PM

    Now that BIND has been removed from the base system [1], what DNS server is FreeBSD shipping with (if any)?

    [1] https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/announce.html

  • by Gracana on 11/14/2014, 9:32 PM

    The new console sounds pretty cool. Features include UTF8, double-width characters, and kernel modesetting.

  • by arh68 on 11/15/2014, 2:24 AM

    Wow. I remember reading about Hotmail servers running BSD back in the day, but not quite like this.

        FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE is also available on these cloud hosting platforms:
        - Amazon(R) EC2(TM) FreeBSD/amd64
        - Microsoft(R) Azure(TM) FreeBSD/amd64,  FreeBSD/i386

  • by josteink on 11/14/2014, 9:23 PM

    I see the release-notes mentions "initial" UEFI support, but FreeBSD usually seem pretty modest about things, so it's hard to tell what to expect.

    Has anyone here tried it? If so, how mature would you consider it? Usuable, but with warts? Or completely fine?

    I'm curious, but I don't want to nuke my server-box just yet :)

  • by giancarlostoro on 11/14/2014, 8:54 PM

    I always wanted to try FreeBSD, but during install, after I picked the software I wanted it would ask me for disk 10, then disk 7, then disk 5... I proceeded to giving up and installing Slackware instead (this was back in 2007 when I was new to Linux). I hope they've fixed this since, or maybe I did something wrong, who knows? Oh well...

  • by farawayea on 11/14/2014, 9:49 PM

    Will FreeBSD start making releases like 10.1.1? Ubuntu and Debian always provide updates to fix bugs, including kernel bugs.

  • by teh_klev on 11/15/2014, 3:07 AM

    I must give FreeBSD another spin. The last time I used it in anger was circa 2000 (4.0) to build a route collector for a small internet exchange point using GNU Zebra [0].

    [0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/zebra/

  • by UglyFont on 11/15/2014, 2:17 PM

    Fonts are still looking extremely ugly after install. How can I get clean fonts for typographic work?

  • by mp3geek on 11/15/2014, 1:42 AM

    Any reason for the lack of DVB drivers in FBSD?

  • by emaste on 11/14/2014, 7:46 PM

    The actual release announcement itself is here: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-No...

  • by _nickwhite on 11/15/2014, 2:16 AM

    Does this release include systemd?

    ducks