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FreeBSD Status Report, Jul-Sep 2015
- 0xcde4c3db 11y agoIt was a nice surprise to see that a RISC-V port is in a semi-working state. I didn't expect anybody to bother with that until next year at the earliest since the supervisor mode spec is still a draft, but I guess commits are cheap.
- zxombie 11y agoIt's being worked on in part to help find issues with the spec.
- tw04 11y agoThe focus of the general public remains around Linux, so it's exciting to see so much progress on the BSD front. No need for a religious war, I'm happy to see both projects maturing as they are.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoQuite interesting to see JdeBP's nosh integration for FreeBSD notable enough to be mentioned. Does this signify there is interest for getting it into base? It would certainly be miles ahead over choosing launchd.
- gonzo 11y ago"Core fielded an enquiry about NextBSD and whether this should be the future direction for the whole FreeBSD project. Core's position is that NextBSD is an interesting project, and we regard it, like the other BSD projects, as a potential source of good ideas. However, we currently have no plans to adopt NextBSD as the official FreeBSD distribution." I don't see launchd coming to FreeBSD anytime soon.
- A010 11y agoIt's in the content, FreeBSD is developing nosh[0] for replacing init system. [0] https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.html#The-nosh-Project https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.h...
- gonzo 11y agoFreeBSD is not developing nosh as a replacement for init. Someone in the FreeBSD community is developing nosh, and it might, someday, be a replacement for init. Might. (I'm responsible for the IPSec bits in that report, and one of my employees did the Allwinner A10/A20 stuff listed there.)
- thinkingkong 11y agoEverytime I read about ZFS all I can think about is how awesome and improbable it would be for Oracle to change the license on both ZFS and Dtrace so it can just get shipped in mainline linux.
- maheart 11y agoDebian[1] and Ubuntu[2] are both working on making ZFS first-class: easily available and easily manageable. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-Debian-Libdvdcss-Packages http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-Debia... [2] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-ZFS-Standard-Plans http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-ZF...
- thinkingkong 11y agoYes but without a change to the license itll never go into the kernel. While that might make not change things operationally for some people, not having it ship with the source means itll always be a second-class citizen.
- kev009 11y agoThat doesn't matter to anyone other than GPL fans in practical terms if Debian and Ubuntu do their thing right.
- unixhero 11y agoThe GPL aside. Being accepted in the kernel would mean the immense rate how development which happens there.
- kev009 11y agoAgain, that's from rosy GPL glasses. At worst, ZoL would be forever one or two kernel releases behind (and is basically reality now), which means very little to production users running LTS distros.
- snvzz 11y agoI still prefer the Dragonfly fork, with its hybrid kernel architecture. HAMMER2 is looking good.
- mangamadaiyan 11y agoI don't understand the downvotes. Parent is just stating their personal preference.
- subliminalpanda 11y agoAgreed. I would frankly like it to be adopted into OS X as a replacement for HFS+
- elktea 11y agoLUN clustering via CTL and multipath TCP both sound like killer applications to me.