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by tachion 13y ago
Try PC-BSD, it is FreeBSD based desktop oriented release that will welcome you with GUI installer and will install you the entire windowed ecosystem.
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by tachion 13y ago
You are linking to 10-STABLE release notes, and 10.0-RELEASE is something else, than STABLE branch. STABLE's are a bit ahead of RELEASE's and are considered to be less stable than RELEASE's - the wording is a bit misleading.
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by tachion 13y ago
It depends what do you mean by GUI: if you're asking if it is a desktop ready release, then no, it doesnt come with GUI, but at any point you can install XFCE/Gnome/KDE on it and turn it into a desktop system. However, you mi
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by tachion 13y ago
The iso's are there, but there was no official release announcement yet, and because of that I would hold your horses for now - until the announcement has been sent out, those can be replaced in case of any issues.
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OpenBSD project in danger of shutting down due to shrinking funding(marc.info)
26 points by tachion 13y ago|8 comments
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FreeBSD 10.0-RC4 now available(lists.freebsd.org)
3 points by tachion 13y ago|0 comments
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by tachion 13y ago
The article is also mentioning bad state of Mercurial, any idea what he could have had on mind? What's wrong with Mercurial these days, beside its less widely used than Git?
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Xen Dom0 initial support introduced in FreeBSD-CURRENT(lists.freebsd.org)
1 points by tachion 13y ago|0 comments
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by tachion 13y ago
I have not said that someone does it manually, I only said, that on first look, that looks really suspicious. And, at the end, the support told me that: "This is Kamal Nasser's script that has been set up to run on the images. The
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by tachion 13y ago
This reminds me my own story: few weeks ago I was trying out their service and on newly created droplet I've noticed a... shell history of downloading and executing a shell script: 1 clear 2 ls 3 clear 4 wget http
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by tachion 13y ago
Also to certain degree: see Debian - Ubuntu, RHEL - CentOS and so on ;)
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by tachion 13y ago
Also, there is BSD Magazine too: http://bsdmag.org/
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by tachion 13y ago
To certain degree - we've also FreeNAS, PC-BSD and lots of others, listed in details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BSD_operating_systems#F...
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by tachion 13y ago
I was thinking about posting something like that too. FreeBSD is a great operating system and we'll all benefit from having more choice than less, therefore I've already donated to the FreeBSD Foundation, and I encourage everyone
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FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 images available(ftp.freebsd.org)
51 points by tachion 13y ago|31 comments
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by tachion 13y ago
It uses 3 controllers, true, but 8 ports out of 12 are SATA III 6GB/s ports, and the controllers split should not be an issue. The statement about not supporting ECC is untrue, that board in fact does support ECC RAM. Also, its $400, b
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by tachion 13y ago
I would recommend FreeNAS as this is what I've used, it has great community and serious company behind it and it seems to be more up to date with FreeBSD releases which is always a nice thing. When it comes to build recommendations, th
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by tachion 13y ago
Recently you can also get an Asrock Avoton motherboard with 12 SATA ports, spreaded across three controllers, but that shouldnt be any problem.
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by tachion 13y ago
What I've really lost is a no-brainer solution, as in purchasing, plugging and that's it, I've also lost a vendor lock in but I dont really miss any of these ;) The most important thing I've gained is the reliability - i
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by tachion 13y ago
FreeBSD 10.0 should be out soon ( http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/schedule.html ) and there should be something there to make your day ( http://vvm.blog.tut.by/2013/10/08/freebsd-
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by tachion 13y ago
They are very similar, yet very different at the same time ;) You can read more here: http://ivoras.net/blog/tree/2013-02-22.freenas-vs-nas4free.h... and here: http://forums.freenas.org/threads&#x2
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by tachion 13y ago
Basically, its anything that FreeBSD can run on (and that's a lot, on its own: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/hardware.html ) and that will at the same time fill your needs (in terms of platform architec
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by tachion 13y ago
FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD and provides great platform (allowing you to use such awesome features like ZFS, BSD/Linux Jails virtualization and many others)for self made NAS appliances made out of any hardware available, but also for v
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FreeNAS 9.2 is out(freenas.org)
82 points by tachion 13y ago|49 comments
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by tachion 13y ago
I must agree, it is very badly visible, unless I am missing some setting that would make it a solid block of bright color under current character...
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by tachion 13y ago
I love when people just like that are assuming that everything has to happen in U.S.A. and that world around it doesnt exist ;)
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FreeBSD 10.0-RC2 now available(lists.freebsd.org)
1 points by tachion 13y ago|0 comments
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by tachion 13y ago
In my perspective, binary drives are a matter of choice, you can use them, but you dont have to, if you dont want to, whereas the random numbers generation is used everywhere in the OS, and you cant just decide to not to use it - that'
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by tachion 13y ago
Yes, and?
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Google Compute Engine widely available, extended OS support and lower pricing(googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk)
1 points by tachion 13y ago|0 comments

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