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FreeBSD 8 released
- uggedal 17y agoI'll try to put it on my EEE 900 this weekend (which is running Arch at the moment)
- josephkern 17y agoYou just read my mind. I've got a Dell 2100 with Arch on it, and I was just looking for a freeBSD usb image.
- durin42 17y agoPost some recent instructions if you get it working? I had numerous problems with networking (which I solved) and swap/RAM overhead (which I didn't) when I tried installing to my Eee 900.
- uggedal 17y agoAccording to this list it should work: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee#head-6d00dcb960b731976447f2511654a0419ce7cc0f http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee#head-6d00dcb960b731976447f25...
- antimora 17y agoFreeBSD 4.2 was my first copy. I had so much fun tinkering with it. It's still my favorite unix os.
- hello_moto 17y agoSometime I wish FreeBSD and OpenBSD are more popular than Linux...
- jodrellblank 17y agoSometimes I think half the opensource advocats are offering me tweaks and utilities to make Windows and OS X more like {star}nix so everything can be The One True Way, and the other half are trying to convince me that all the {star}nix variants are life changingly different and charmingly unique.
- GeneralMaximus 17y agoMac OS X is already UNIX. In fact, OS X implements more of POSIX than Linux.
- FooBarWidget 17y agoPOSIX message queues. SysV message queues. POSIX realtime signals. POSIX monotonic timers like clock_gettime(). POSIX semaphores living on shared memory for inter-process synchronization. Pthread spin locks. Linux has them, OS X does not. These are just a few things that I encountered while developing on OS X. Where did you get the idea that OS X implements more POSIX than Linux?
- illumen 17y agoYeah, I've also found linux to be a better unix than OSX. Many OSX calls seem lacking compared to linux ones. Compare mmap and threads on both systems for example. Which shouldn't be surprising considering how much work is going on with linux, compared to the OSX kernel. There's thousands of developers, many of whom work for much larger companies than apple(many of which work on their own Unix too... or have in the past).
- GeneralMaximus 17y agoAh. My information comes from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX The article might be wrong, of course. Since you appear to have more experience in this area, I'll just take your word for it :)
- tomneo 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX requires editing then, both,linux and Freebsd are listed in the incomplete side. http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/osfoundations.html http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/osfoundations.ht... seems to say the same damn lie !
- timdorr 17y agoTechnically this is already true, since OS X is a FreeBSD variant and is more popular than Linux (at least in the desktop world). But I know what you mean. I actually host two development servers for FreeBSD and employ one of the core devs (laszlof). I'm trying to help! :)
- enneff 17y agoThe kernel is different, and the userland is different. OS X may be FreeBSD-derived, but it has moved a long way from its roots since then.
- enneff 17y agoGreat! Just in time for me to build my new ZFS-based file server. =)
- pquerna 17y agoFreeBSD 7/8 are really starting to feel like the decisions made in 5.x are starting the pay off. Between the ULE Scheduler, ZFS filesystem, DTrace (even if not as good as on Solaris) and the new Jails, Its a pretty sweet technology packed release. Hopefully we will be upgrading some of the apache.org server soon :)
- ThinkWriteMute 17y agoSpeaking of Apache, why do none of the Linux distros use YAWS? It's always Apache.
- rbanffy 17y agoIf you want ZFS and DTrace, is there a good reason to prefer FreeBSD to OpenSolaris?
- pquerna 17y agoBecause the FreeBSD userland enviroment and ports collection are sane, and there is a reasonable way to do upgrades, while with OpenSolaris you have... what?
- ThinkWriteMute 17y agoI've heard the community around BDS tends to make the Linux community look like a bunch of happy go lucky hippies.
- tibbon 17y agoNetcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying
- rbanffy 17y agoDoes FreeBSD have something like Synaptic?
- mpakes 17y agoFreeBSD setups typically use the BSD Ports collection for package management, which compiles from source + patches (vaguely similar to Gentoo Linux). There doesn't appear to be a mainstream UI for BSD ports. (Curiously, the Mac OS X equivalent, MacPorts, has at least two current UI projects.)
- Dobbs 17y agoTo append to what your are saying this is because ports is set up for unix people to work it. To search you use ls, cd, and find. To install you "cd <dir> && make install". If you are installing freebsd you should already be comfortable enough to not need a pretty gui hiding these very simple details.
- Malus 17y agoYou could use find, but it is easier to use the built in facilities to search for ports. If you are in the ports directory you can: make search name=name_of_port to search for a port by name and: make search key=key_to_search_for to search by key. You can also use quicksearch instead of search to reduce the verbosity of the results. If you read the ports man page, you will find a bunch of other nifty things you can do with the ports system.
- dazzawazza 17y agoI tend to just search at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ http://www.freebsd.org/ports/
- thomas11 17y agoFreeBSD also has a binary package management system, see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/packages-using.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/packages-using..... The ports take precedence, though, in that they can have newer versions and not all packages on all architectures may be available as binaries.