Please consider donating [1] to FreeBSD.<p>They still need $400k and there's only 4 days left<p>Even if you don't use FreeBSD, their work still benefits the open source community with ZFS, etc.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org</a>
I downloaded the 10.0-RC3 ISO and spent the day spinning up multiple vm images using Vmware Fusion. My primary goal was a tour of different desktop environments, but I decided to create and build out a separate VM for each. I used the "open-vm-tools" package to improve integration with vmware, because their tools (reasonably enough) don't yet support 10.0.<p>I never experienced any difficulties with any of the the vm images. I used the "pkgng" packaging system for 99% of the software I installed, and built a couple of things from ports.<p>In my tests I was evaluating FreeBSD 10.0 as a developer's workstation. Chromium, Firefox, vim, git, VLC, ruby, gem, rake, etc - everything installed painlessly and worked as expected.<p>BTW, my preferred desktop environment is now XFCE (1) plus slim (2). I've been a happy KDE user for years, but I realized that I don't use 90% of what KDE gives me. Speaking for myself, XFCE does everything I need.<p>(1) <a href="http://www.xfce.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.xfce.org</a>
(2) <a href="http://daemon-notes.com/articles/desktop/slim" rel="nofollow">http://daemon-notes.com/articles/desktop/slim</a>
A link to the announcement would probably be more helpful:<p><a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-December/076590.html" rel="nofollow">http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-Decem...</a>
Some like to wait until x.1 for production use, but FreeBSD development tends to be a good deal more conservative than Linux, and is usually already pretty solid for the x.0 release. They've also been more incremental with changes between major versions since the major SMP additions in versions 5-7.<p>Since it's not in the announcement or linked directly from the website itself, here's what's new in 10.0:
<a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD10" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD10</a>
No TLS/SSL ? In the wake of all the security news recently, it's surprising that there is no secured download option.<p>Plus, no official bittorrent download ? That sucks. If anyone is interested, here's the torrent for the bootonly img. I hope FreeBSD devs these by default in the future.<p><a href="http://torcache.net/torrent/5f0621060da88eb18c5765c8a2e87e93ab95c6bc.torrent" rel="nofollow">http://torcache.net/torrent/5f0621060da88eb18c5765c8a2e87e93...</a>
List of mirror sites (which are usually faster to download from): <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mi...</a>
Still has text-based install and no working mouse upon first boot without hacking config files (tried in VMware and VirtualBox). Definitely STILL not for desktop / casual consumption.