"FreeBSD was released 1 Nov, 20 years ago," writes iophk, "if Wikipedia is accurate."
The latest beta release of FreeBSD 10.0 is now available for testing.
FreeBSD 10.0 Beta 3 features many bug-fixes, a POWER hypervisor interpartition ethernet driver, an Altera Triple Speed Ethernet MegaCore driver, a "pkg bootstrap" command, and numerous other system-level changes.
As to running PC-BSD, my experience had me constantly swinging back and forth between two thoughts: "Wow, this is a great feature, I wish more projects did this!" and "Drat, another bug, this is frustrating!" There was not a lot of middle ground between these two thoughts while running PC-BSD. It seems as though the developers tried to supply several new features for this release, all of them good ideas, but some of the implementations still have problems. Let's start with the system installer. This is a fine piece of software. I really like that the installer can detect our hardware and warn us if some hardware support is missing. I also like the various guided disk partitioning options and the optional package selection screen. Both of these features were well implemented and I had no issues at all with the installer.
Two of the three major desktop operating systems are now free. And it's likely to be a trend
Comments
Needs Sunlight
2013-11-07 13:07:06
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2013-11-09 20:26:27