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FreeBSD Status Report, Jul-Sep 2015

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79 pointskryptiskt17 comments

The focus of the general public remains around Linux, so it's exciting to see so much progress on the BSD front. No need for a religious war, I'm happy to see both projects maturing as they are.

It was a nice surprise to see that a RISC-V port is in a semi-working state. I didn't expect anybody to bother with that until next year at the earliest since the supervisor mode spec is still a draft, but I guess commits are cheap.

It's being worked on in part to help find issues with the spec.

Quite interesting to see JdeBP's nosh integration for FreeBSD notable enough to be mentioned. Does this signify there is interest for getting it into base? It would certainly be miles ahead over choosing launchd.

"Core fielded an enquiry about NextBSD and whether this should be the future direction for the whole FreeBSD project. Core's position is that NextBSD is an interesting project, and we regard it, like the other BSD projects, as a potential source of good ideas. However, we currently have no plans to adopt NextBSD as the official FreeBSD distribution."

I don't see launchd coming to FreeBSD anytime soon.

It's in the content, FreeBSD is developing nosh[0] for replacing init system.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.h...

FreeBSD is not developing nosh as a replacement for init.

Someone in the FreeBSD community is developing nosh, and it might, someday, be a replacement for init. Might.

(I'm responsible for the IPSec bits in that report, and one of my employees did the Allwinner A10/A20 stuff listed there.)

I still prefer the Dragonfly fork, with its hybrid kernel architecture.

HAMMER2 is looking good.

Agreed. I would frankly like it to be adopted into OS X as a replacement for HFS+

I don't understand the downvotes. Parent is just stating their personal preference.

Everytime I read about ZFS all I can think about is how awesome and improbable it would be for Oracle to change the license on both ZFS and Dtrace so it can just get shipped in mainline linux.

Debian[1] and Ubuntu[2] are both working on making ZFS first-class: easily available and easily manageable.

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-Debia... [2] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-ZF...

Yes but without a change to the license itll never go into the kernel. While that might make not change things operationally for some people, not having it ship with the source means itll always be a second-class citizen.

That doesn't matter to anyone other than GPL fans in practical terms if Debian and Ubuntu do their thing right.

The GPL aside. Being accepted in the kernel would mean the immense rate how development which happens there.

Again, that's from rosy GPL glasses. At worst, ZoL would be forever one or two kernel releases behind (and is basically reality now), which means very little to production users running LTS distros.

LUN clustering via CTL and multipath TCP both sound like killer applications to me.

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