FreeBSD Oct-Dec 2005 Status Report Available 41
An anonymous reader writes "The latest FreeBSD Status Report is available, covering updates for the last quarter of 2005. A quiet time, for the most part, but some interesting news on the TCP Optimization, and Xen, fronts."
Useful improvements (Score:2)
2. Sound subsystem improvements (if you like to listen to songs once a while on your server , use it as a dedicated server cum audio only media center )
There arent too many other significant changes (except maybe the IPv6 , but who uses that )
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Audio only? mplayer works fine on my FreeBSD workstation.
Other generally notable changes:
New dhclient with privsep imported from OpenBSD. I'm sure other OS's would appreciate ports.
Variant symlinks; again, being able to have context-sensitive symlinks isn't a feature only of interest to a few BSD users. What uses can you think of for variable interpolat
BSD at SCALE 4x (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:Why do I care about FreeBSD? (Score:4, Funny)
Windows: "Where do you want to go today?"
Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?"
FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"
People who like UNIX (Score:2)
The next closest thing would indeed be Linux.
FreeBSD? Eh, no, FreeBSD is rather incompatible with UNIX. Try ignoring SIGCHLD (actually SIGCLD); a real UNIX will automatically reap any dead children so you don't get zombies. Try a basic UNIX command like "ps -ef". Look at signal() behavior. Look at the commands used to control printing.
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Re:Why do I care about FreeBSD? (Score:1)
"Why do we need FreeBSD?"
It's for the people who hate Linux.
Re:Why do I care about FreeBSD? (Score:5, Interesting)
As a reference model on how things are supposed to be done by the book with professionally commented and written source and properly written documentation.
What does it do that Linux doesn't?
Correct integration of statefull firewall and QoS framework, full integration of NTP into the kernel, multiple alternative timer sources across the entire kernel not just parts of the network stack, full realtime posix timers, possibility to alter HZ above 2500 without bastardizing the kernel to hell, so on so fourth
Who actually uses FreeBSD?
Anyone who needs a proper working R&D platform with predictable and well documented behaviour. For example I do most of my R&D on BSD because it is written by the book and I can compare what I do with the actual articles and papers written by people. Once I got working what I want I move it to linux because this is what people tend to use. This is also the moment I usually start cursing.
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Re:Why do I care about FreeBSD? (Score:5, Informative)
I do, and that's all that matters to me. Why the hell do you care what other people are using? Find your own operating system and be content with it.
Re:Why do I care about FreeBSD? (Score:2)
Why? Here are my reasons (and note, I've been a Linux user since 1996 as well):
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I wish I could use BSD (Score:3, Informative)
BSDs do not support the following for my Powebook:
* Sleep/suspend
* Firewire
* Airport Extreme (linux barely does, but it is getting there)
* Bluetooth
* Processor scaling
* Internal modem (not that I care)
Unfortunately, for a laptop to be useful for me, it needs to be able to go to sleep. For it not to eat batteries, I need to be able to adjust the processor speed. Right now, I'm running Ubuntu (I did a server install -- it is basically Debian with an up to date kernel that supports sleep and all other non-wifi functions out of the box as far as I'm concerned), and I'm quite happy.
Re:I wish I could use BSD (Score:3, Interesting)
Don't like OSX?
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NetBSD and even OpenBSD handles cross-platforms much better. I'm not too aware of the compatibility of NetBSD and PPC (since I don't use either), but it should be worth looking into.
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Re:I wish I could use BSD (Score:2)
I just wrote on various livejournal communities a question about using Linux on powerpc. I planned to buy a powerbook.
Linux is a required unix to learn at class so macosx is out of the question. What surprissed me is that Linus now uses a mac as his main linux workstation so I assumed linux would be alot better on it now.
I think Opensolaris has a beta that works on powerpc that supports sleep but I am not too sure on that.
Are you sure Linux doesn't support it? That sucks dude.
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slightly offtopic (Score:5, Informative)