FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE

bangkok_manouel · 2008-02-27 09:57:53

I guess most of us like to play with new technologies and OSS... 7.0-RELEASE is out ! Join the swarm:
http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/

ibendiben · 2008-02-27 11:49:37

It's still RC2-3 AFAIK
You'll have to wait a little more to get the FINAL release

Allan · 2008-02-27 11:59:14

They still have 7.0RC2 on their front page. I'm looking forward to trying it though. I'm going to have a few VMs running soon...

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wuischke · 2008-02-27 12:17:30

I downloaded RC3 (amd64) some days ago, but I can't get it to start in qemu. It will always crash (acpi enabled) or hang on trying to mount root from /dev/md0 (or similar).

Anyone who had more success?

Anyway: I'm thinking about switching to BSD for quite a while now. Until now hardware compatibility and package management (I wish I never got to know pacman...) always stopped me from using OpenBSD full time. Once I get hold of a second PC, I'll see how FreeBSD compares to Linux for my usage case.

bangkok_manouel · 2008-02-27 12:39:10

Check their main FTP or the torrent link (in my 1st post), it's 7.0-RELEASE ! BT is damn slow ATM, so join people

kensai · 2008-02-27 12:46:23

YAY! downloading already. I've been waiting for this release for so long now. I can't promise I will seed that much, since my upload speed is barely 128Kbs, but well, I'll help a bit.

BTW, it is on the official mirrors as well, but save them bandwidth, use torrents.

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Mandor · 2008-02-27 16:34:45

I've just finished it and will keep it for a few days. I suppose that soon there will be quite a lot of peers.

moljac024 · 2008-02-27 22:20:22

There's still only RC2 on their main site....are you sure the FINAL release is out ?

kensai brother, stay heavy ! \m/

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SpookyET · 2008-02-28 00:05:39

moljac024 wrote:

There's still only RC2 on their main site....are you sure the FINAL release is out ?
kensai brother, stay heavy ! \m/

Every big project updates the site a few days after a release to make sure that it has been propagated onto all mirrors.

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bender02 · 2008-02-28 00:50:29

Maybe a quicker way is to download RC2 from far-away mirror and then "freebsd-update -r 7.0-RELEASE" in installed RC2

kensai · 2008-02-28 11:09:50

moljac024 wrote:

kensai brother, stay heavy ! \m/

I don't think I get the message you are trying to explain here. What is it? I must figure out something about the music? So, if that is, .

ANyways, I'm here at FreeBSD, it looks good so far, I have gone through some minor annoyances, like cvsup mirrors being over-populated, but all in all, is looking good, I think what is left is a good kernel recompile.

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Christopher · 2008-03-07 12:43:16

I've used FreeBSD in the past for server purposes so I guess I've been a fan of it. For those interested in some of the "techie" side of things that are new or improved here is an interesting interview with many of the developers.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2008/02 … sd-70.html

-chris

wuischke · 2008-03-07 20:21:53

I have tested the i386-version in qemu and I like it so far. The port system is very nice, but compiling all the packages takes quite some time. But once set up, I imagine it could serve as a nice desktop operating system. I'll have to learn a bit more, though.

lucke · 2008-03-07 20:41:50

I fiddled with 7.0 today and yesterday - it now became another XFS partition ;-)

It's pretty nice, but has its quirks. Wouldn't replace Arch on my desktop, it could perhaps compete for a place on my router/server - but then I'd probably prefer OpenBSD.

jbromley · 2008-03-22 08:41:31

I've currently got 7.0-RELEASE on a partition. It's my first FreeBSD install, but it wasn't too bad to get it working. I find that the system seems a bit more compact and organized than Linux. I've set up an environment as close as possible to my normal Arch Linux wmii environment. It works well and is a bit snappier than Linux. Here's some of the highlights:

* I can use most of the same software I use on Linux: slim, wmii, firefox, emacs, moc, irssi, etc.
* Getting sound (Intel ICH6) and wifi (Intel 2915abg) with WPA was extremely easy.
* My Firewire works out of the box, as does my Broadcom NIC (not such a big deal these days)
* After installing from CD I couldn't get X working. I had to rebuild the Xorg server from the ports and then everything was fine.
* I find I like the BSD-style init. That's part of the reason I like Arch.
* I can't for the life of my get ACPI suspend to work. More accurately, my machine suspends find and even resumes, but when it resumes the screen doesn't come back on. I can "work" blindly, but mostly I have to reboot. So close but so far...
* Using the automount daemon (amd) to mount USB drives is pretty kludgy, but it works OK. Not near as nice as the hal/dbus/ivman setup I've got on my Linux system. There is a usbd that is supposedly similar to ivman, but I haven't tried it yet.
* No hardware acceleration for ATI cards. Damn you AMD/ATI! There is a binary driver for NVidia, though. I will never get another computer with an ATI card if that machine will have anything other than Windows on it.
* Lots of software: there are 18,000+ packages in the ports tree. The (sort of) bad part is you have to compile it yourself. This isn't too bad, since it's very similar to AUR/ABS and is as simple as doing "make install clean" in the correct ports directory. (I imagine Arch copied this idea from BSD)l
* No flash player 9, yet. You can get version 7 running, though that version seems to be getting phased out on most web sites.

Anyway, I'll definitely keep my FreeBSD partition around for experimentation, but it still not good enough to make me leave Arch, yet.

Regards,
j

daf666 · 2008-03-22 10:04:18

Thanks jbromley, thats a nice review from an Arch user perspective, I also wanted to give it a try lately.
I love fbsd and was actually using it before ever using Arch.., after using arch long enough though it killed my motivation to try anything else.. coz everything just works..
I always like to have a "fallback distro" handy (in mind), in case I need something else.. I guess its fbsd (or maybe debian).

thisllub · 2008-03-23 23:02:25

I installed it on my ACER laptop 3 weeks ago.
Feels very nice and stable.
Only one problem and that is that the wpi Intel wireless driver is intolerably slow.
I always keep 2 distros on each machine - lucky as Arch tanked it during an update one day and X wouldn't start the next morning. (An easy fix with an internet connection but I was away on business).
I had 3 days working with it and I would have no problem using it for work.
The greatest thing to come out of it is that I am now an Openbox convert.
Nothing has ever felt so fast or stable.

My biggest issue is the disgraceful state of the BSD forums.
90% of the posts on the main pages are spam porn links and the sysadmins seem unable or unwilling to do anything about it.
I am sure it puts a lot of people off, making it harder to get (or give) help.

inf · 2008-04-17 03:52:43

I have a FreeBSD server at home, mainly for my webpages and mysql and IRC stuff. I have tested many distributions with it, because it isn't a production server or doesn't offer services to anyone else than me, so it doesn't matter if it goes down for my distrop hopper needs

I started my FreeBSD experience at the same day when 7.0-Release came out, and now I run FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT on it Even though 8.0-CURRENT is the development version, it's still has been rock solid for me. Of course I don't run X etc on it, because it's mainly a server.

Also, like with Arch, if you wanna learn about how to configure your systems by yourself, FreeBSD is a good choice, atleast for server stuff.

I don't think that I'm going away from FreeBSD anytime soon, maybe if 8.0 brakes someday, i'll might change, but i don't think that will happen very soon :-)

Aaron · 2008-04-19 00:36:28

It seems they added a GUI installer since I last checked FreeBSD out.

Personally I've always enjoyed BSD, but my ATI card doesn't like it as much.

The scheduler updates seem to be a very nice improvement.

Last edited by Aaron (2008-04-19 00:41:51)

cardinals_fan · 2008-04-19 02:27:42

Aaron wrote:

It seems they added a GUI installer since I last checked FreeBSD out.

It's called Finstall and is currently under testing... http://sourceforge.net/projects/finstall

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