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Should I wait for 7.1?
I generally like to run a release for a couple of years. I don't upgrade unless absolutely necessary. Should I wait for 7.1 or is 7.0. a good release?
I moved away from FreeBSD after the major debacle with a new xorg and I'm thinking about setting up a new system. Still trying to decide between Free and Net. Thanks.
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In 7.1, I believe the newer scheduler will be defaulted on in i386/amd64; I've been using it as shipped in 7.0-release and as it currently is in 7-stable, without any problems, and don't think there will be any major hicups in 7.1R from it. The FreeBSD has been rock solid stable on my machine, since the days of 6.0-Release, but as always YMMV.
Personally, I'd wait for 7.1 unless time is of the essence.
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I have a nice Core 2 DUO box with 4G of RAM waiting for a nice 64 bit OS. I am reading some mixed reviews on the stability of the AMD64 version.
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All of my machines run 32-Bit X86 (WinXP 32, FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Linux i386); although I am capable of running AMD64 on the main box.
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Great, thanks for the info. I installed NetBSD 4.0.1 AMD64 last night and I'll probably install FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 on another drive in the same box and see which one works better for my purposes.
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I'm running 7.1-RC1 right now, which is rock-solid stable. 7.0-RELEASE does not have the ULE scheduler enabled by default, as 7.1-RELEASE will have. So, it might be worth waiting.
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XOrg 6.9 to XOrg 7.0 modular. What do you expect will happen with NetBSD 5.0 when they move from XFree86 to XOrg 7.4 modular? You choice should be clear FreeBSD. I wonder why didn't you consider OpenBSD? If you are as conservative user as you claim OpenBSD would be the perfect choice. I might be little bit bias since I used it but based on my heuristic experience OpenBSD is the most stable of all BSDs following closely by NetBSD. FreeBSD is by far the list stable of big three. On the another hand real question you should be asking yourself is what will be the primary use for your system and what kind a hardware you will be dealing with. Unlike many major Linux distros and Windows alike which claim that are all-in-one solutions for all human computing needs each of four BSD flavors has its own notch as you know. FreeBSD is ultra optimized for multiprocessors i386 or amd64 machines (almost no support for anything else) and great solution for large data bases. Bleeding edge software. DragonFly with kernel support for clustering. NetBSD portability on old crappy hardware (very little support for non i386 and amd64 on modern hardware), best virtualization in BSD world and fantastic solution for embedded devices. OpenBSD most secure of all, most conservative and in practical terms most portable (sparc64 outstanding) great for embedded devices and small servers. Speaking of BSD on the desktop it is what you make out of them. I have used all of the above as my primary desktop OS. If you just want things to work on the desktop probably should try PCBSD to see if it works for you. It is probably couple years behind Linux in usability but might work for you. On another hand you can just get a Mac if you want BSD on the desktop and you will be light years ahead of Linux users. Last edited by Oko; 25th December 2008 at 07:41 AM. |
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Right now the most important criteria for me in choosing an OS are stability, AMD64 support/exploitation, and how simple it is to run winbloze in a VM. Quote:
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Bummer, I just burned a CD of 2.0 and as usual it doesn't come up on any of my machines. 1.8.0 was fine but 1.6 was also a problem. I will have to wait until the dragon fly guys get more hardware support going. I read the NetBSD doc on Xen and it was confusing. I get the feeling it's a work in progress and not very refined. Unless I'm wrong, I'm not sure if it's worth pursuing until they get a turnkey virtualization setup going. I don't want to be a NetBSD developer, I just need a stable, high-performance platform and virtual host. I love pkgsrc though, and would like to run a NetBSD box. Unfortunately, the latest AMD64 port only boots on one of my boxes. I will have to do some juggling to get this going if I choose it.
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There's no excuse for tearing my system up when I try to build one new package. It was a sloppy, ill-conceived way to operate, and there's no excuse for it.
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Not sure how much simpler they could have made it. New installs g[o|e]t Xorg, existing XFree86 installs could continue to use XFree86, and those that wanted to upgrade from XFree86 to Xorg could do so. I remember a lot of traffic on the ports@ mailing list around that time with the procedures to use, and I thought there was an entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING, but now I can't find it. The big thing that caught people was the simultaneous transition from X11BASE=/usr/X11 to X11BASE=$LOCALBASE (/usr/local), which required a re-install of all X-related ports, or a symlink setup. And I believe it's on FreeBSD 6.x that you have to add a line to /etc/make.conf since the ports tree when running on 6.x can't redefine X11BASE on it's own. So, all that being said, I'm not really sure how they could have made it any easier. |
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I can't offer comment on 5, since I began with 6. But doesn't shock me that there are still 4.x boxes about!
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I was hoping (but not holding my breath) that I would wake up this morning and read that 7.1-Release was out since it is so close. I deleted my 7.0 iso's to make room for 7.1 for a fresh install on this hd.
Side note: still have my 4.x cd pack, along with 3.x and 2.2.1-Release cd's |
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Just when I finished installing NetBSD-4.0.1, FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE, and OpenBSD-4.4 they bring out FreeBSD 7.1!
OpenBSD is going well, as usual. NetBSD locked up too many times, and FreeBSD 7.1 didn't recognize my monitor. If I can OpenBSD to run a winbloze guest I've found my OS for this box. I have another drive, I guess it's time to download 7.1 and try again
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OpenBSD-4.4 is locking up in QEMU I can't believe they allowed this to happen!
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