Comments on: iXsystems Announces Release of PC-BSD 9.1 Isotope Edition

By: Building OpenWRT under FreeBSD « Thinking too much

Building OpenWRT under FreeBSD « Thinking too much — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:03:37 +0000

[...] up short description here of how we prepared both a FreeBSD 8.x jail and a FreeBSD 9.1 (actually a PCBSD 9.1) jail to support OpenWRT’s build system. Share this:EmailLike this:LikeBe the first to like [...]

By: sg1efc

sg1efc — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:44:53 +0000

Wow that’s cool, didn’t realize there were so many.

Good question Larnaca, Thanks.

By: dru

dru — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:37:58 +0000

There really isn’t any stats, but many FreeBSD committers have jobs that allow them to work F/T or close to it on FreeBSD. iX (just one company) has a dozen or so employees who work F/T on FreeBSD/PC-BSD/FreeNAS.

By: FreeBSD 9.1 and syslog-ng « Czanik@BalaBit

FreeBSD 9.1 and syslog-ng « Czanik@BalaBit — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:25:22 +0000

[...] The FreeBSD 9.1 release was announced in the last days of 2012 with many interesting new features and bugfixes. My favorite items are performance improvements, better Intel graphics and sound support, many ZFS improvements and many new jail features. For a complete list check the release notes. It is the new long term support version of FreeBSD, so I expect to see a mass update from 8.X to 9.1 in the coming months. I have FreeBSD 9.1 already running in vmware and also plan to try PC-BSD, as they also have a server version now, according to the annoucement. [...]

By: Larnaca

Larnaca — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:34:22 +0000

Hi Dru!

As one who recently became informed about the blessings of ZFS I’m now curious if you – or anyone else for that matter – know approximately how many people are working *full-time* (more or less) on the FreeBSD/PCBSD project? And is manpower increasing, stable or decreasing?

Btw my initial ZFS attempt will be a home backup server (one SSD w ZFS or UFS + two mirrored ZFS hdds). Hopefully my backup server can have WOL (Wake-On-LAN) together with ACPI S3 suspend/resume thru a combination of SSH and a bash script but if that solution won’t be stable/working then we’ll try to a regular shutdown + WOL. All assuming WOL will work as intended…

If successful at home I’ll hope to implement PC-BSD at the work place and thereafter contribute financially to the project.

By: sg1efc

sg1efc — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:59:14 +0000

That’s awesome!

By: dru

dru — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:26:42 +0000

We already make security updates easy using Update Manager and they are available soon after the FreeBSD update becomes available. See the other comment below for info on the upcoming point release updates for software/features.

By: dru

dru — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:05:27 +0000

Now that 9.1 is out, Kris is now working on the infrastructure to support regular system updates. We will also be moving to point releases this year, meaning that there should be a new point release (e.g. 9.1.1) every 3 months or so, so one does not have to wait for the next major release (e.g. 9.2) to use new features and updated software.

By: John

John — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:17:56 +0000

I forgot all about the PBIs as that is an issue. I know that FireFox took forever to be updated. I was more worried about all the other software that was installed. I know a lot of these get security updates and know that when 9.1 was in beta they talked about having weekly updates but did not know if this got taken care of or not. I hate to use some thing that does not come out with at least security updates soon after they are released.

By: mato

mato — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:22:16 +0000

It was mentioned in past that infrastructure is being set up to provide regular building of latest PBIs. But from what is available it seems it’s not done yet. Also system PBIs should be kept updated as that is what users (and reviewers) notice first and those packages tend to get out of date rather quickly (especially considering long time between PC-BSD releases).