Submitted by While I was away from OSNews, FreeBSD 8.1 was released. Nobody posted it on OSNews, so here I am, a little late (my apologies). It’s got all sorts of improvements, like support for UltraSPARC IV/IV+ and SPARC64 V processors, SMP support for PowerPC G5 processors, GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.5, and much more.
It’s official, you’re not allowed to leave EVER again! After all, it’s not OSNews without incremental point releases getting a headline.
(I kid, I kid; it really is nice to have you back.)
I’ve been running 8.1 for about a week now and frankly I love it. But then I’ve been won over by FreeBSD for a number of years now so my biased opinion doesn’t really count for much
FreeBSD is getting sexier & sexier
So that is why Debian is adopting it ? 🙂
it’s ok thom.. without you osnews wouldn’t be as good :p
in fact i bet most news sites would silently ignore such stuff instead of making it right
so kudos – that’s among the reasons why you’re now my favorite editor all websites included
Dave posted this on the 21st of July, not everything goes to pieces when you are away mate!
http://www.osnews.com/comments/23594
EDIT: OK, my bad, that was PC-BSD 8.1….please forgive me!
Edited 2010-08-16 01:26 UTC
It was actually posted here at one point, a while after the PC-BSD article. It was removed soon after for some reason.
I added a news about FreeBSD 8.1 release to ‘submit news’ but it just did not make it into the front page … dont ask me why.
Yeah, me too… Sometimes I wonder if this is still _OS_ news…
I saw at least three posts about that in the queue but it seems the admins didn’t think it was noteworthy or something.
It installed on an older laptop after I
figured out that before the install
was finalized an irq conflict with the
pccard(s). was hanging the boot (new kernel)
or the sysintall or something…
…
The other issue which may temporarily
stymie
some upgraders (v7 v8) , is the new (newbie
here) hard drive driver(s) and/or
code, search the freebsd.org forum
(keyword “devices”) and multiple
posts regarding fixes should be found.
(In my case, loading geom_bsd.ko
geom_mbr.ko and geom_label.ko in
/boot/loader.conf; that was v7 > v8 STABLE
awhile back).
That 8.1 causes some ethernet switches to crash?
Not kidding… I tested it on my netbook, and found that it made the port it was plugged into unusable every time I tried to run the DHCP client. Yes, unusable for other computers, not just the netbook; and other OSes, not just FreeBSD. I tried several ports and it happened for all of them.
Rebooting the switch fixed it of course. But killing the ethernet ports was completely reproducible.
(The switch, FWIW, is a cheapo D-Link model, and the netbook is an Eee 1005HAB, whose ethernet chipset only became fully supported as of 8.1 If anyone can offer a solution to this problem I’d be greatful.)
Don’t auto-negotiate your NIC speed and force it to be 10Mbps and if that’s stable try 100Mbps. Also, check /var/log/messages for anything related to these errors.
Maybe Osnews got a real good reason for not posting the news submitted. I for one submit alot of news I now will be interesting to osnews readership.
Maybe it’s copyright or maybe roylties or just a ego thing.