FreeBSD 13.1 Released

FreeBSD 13.1 has been released today. Some of the new features include UEFI boot improvements for AMD64, a wide variety of hardware driver improvements, and support for freebsd-update to allow creating automated snapshots of the boot environment to try to make operating system updates foolproof. Phoronix reports: Some of the other changes with FreeBSD 13.1 include enabling Position Independent Executable (PIE) support by default on 64-bit architectures, a new "zfskeys" service script for the automatic decryption of ZFS datasets, NVMe emulation with Bhyve hypervisor, chroot now supports unprivileged operations, various POWER and RISC-V improvements, big endian support improvements, support for the HiFive Unmatched RISC-V development board, updating against OpenZFS file-system support upstream, and many other changes throughout this BSD open-source ecosystem. Downloads and the full change-log for FreeBSD 13.1 can be found here.

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[fahrbot-bot]

It is official; Netcraft now confirms: BSD is dying

If NetCraft had a sense of humor, they would, at this point, use BSD ... :-)

[I think they use CentOS.]

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[rainer_d]

I believe they did use FreeBSD at one point in the past.

Re:It is official; Netcraft now confirms: BSD is d

[brunoblack]

All jokes aside, freeBSD is actually a nice product.

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[shutton]

So was my Palm Pre.

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[flyingfsck]

FreeBSD is OK, but I prefer OpenBSD. OpenBSD runs on I ever tried with it and it is screaming fast compared to most Linux distributions - only Slackware comes close for raw speed.

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[spth]

OpenBSd is slow.

Phoronix recently did benchmarks [phoronix.com]: 4 GNU/Linux distributions, 4 BSDs.

Of course there are exceptions among the benchmarks, but in general, OpenBSD is slow. Both compared to GNU/Linux and to other BSDs.

Re: It is official; Netcraft now confirms: BSD is

[e3m4n]

No no no. The phrase is as follows "Of course it runs NetBSD!" NetBSD on a toaster, NetBSD on a hair dryer; because, well, why not?

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[flyingfsck]

Microsoft's war against Linux killed BSD. There is no such thing as bad publicity - the resulting press boosted Linux to the detriment of BSD.

Re: It is official; Netcraft now confirms: BSD is

[e3m4n]

Are we talking distro or architectural design? If we are talking design, then BSDs deviation from SystemV is enough to say BSD lives on through MacOS. Since OSX first entered the market it has been a BSD core derivative not a Linux one. In truth not a huge amount separate the two in ways a end user would understand. Most differences like in how it handles kernel space, user space, exec privileges, and its tcp/ip stack. BSD often was considered a "University Unix" whereas System V was considered mo

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[Menelkir]

https://isbsddeadyet.com/ [isbsddeadyet.com]

isBSDdeadyet.com has an expired SSL cert

[Khopesh]

Hah, the https://isbsddeadyet.com/ [isbsddeadyet.com] joke site (which simply reads "No, don't be stupid!") has an SSL cert that expired two months ago, kind of defeating its own argument.

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[Menelkir]

Yes, because a joke site should represent FreeBSD. Let me tweet that.

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[NoWayNoShapeNoForm]

I tried to use FreeBSD once...but I had problems finding enough ancient hardware to build a computer to run it.

So what SBC's

[thadtheman]

does FreeBSD run on?

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[spth]

MIPS support itself will be discontinued in FreeBSD soon anyway.

A cheap big-endian system supported by FreeBSD would e.g. be a used PowerPC Mac Mini. Those tend to be about 50 €.

Re: sadly not many anymore

[e3m4n]

A cheap big-endian system. .

Thats it, Im cancel culturing you. You and your Washington Redskin brethren keep using racial imagery to denigrate our native american people!! (Jokes)

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[spth]

I have FreeBSD 13.1 (used to be 13.0 until a day ago) running on a Raspi 4.

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[tux2bsd]

Any luck on Rpi400 ? 13.0 didn't work for me. (if you have one that is...)

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[spth]

The Raspi 4 is my only Raspi.

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[bill_mcgonigle]

400 has a few different drivers. Look at the Debian howto - I forget the models at the moment.

Efficiently keep up to date between releases

[tux2bsd]

freebsd-update-probe.sh ( https://github.com/tux2bsd/fre... [github.com] )

It's for testing for the presence of updates (within the life of a RELEASE version aka point updates). See the README at github for more info.

Enjoy

It's a disappointment

[Mononymous]

I was really looking forward to 13.1-RELEASE, because it would finally support the Intel AX200 wifi chip in my laptop.
I tried it yesterday. The iwilwifi driver is unstable AF. Not really usable yet.
I really like FreeBSD, but I'll have to keep waiting.
The project is certainly putting more effort into laptop support now, but they're really far behind OpenBSD in that regard.
That's because FreeBSD devs do all their work over ssh on some other server somewhere, while OpenBSD devs actually run it on their own lap

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[yosephi]

If you're up for it, try CURRENT. A lot of work has gone into the 802.11 LinuxKPI and iwlwifi that's still only in CURRENT.