I really love FreeBSD but having 3 different PRODUCTION branches is getting insane (10.3, 9.3, 8.4).<p>I only run RELEASE.<p>When I run into production issues, the developers say they have fixed my issue in CURRENT but never release a point update to RELEASE ... means forces me to have to wait until the next MAJOR release for it to be fixed.<p>Feels like FreeBSD, even though I love all it does, is becoming more and more just for developers.<p>We need more minor point releases and less major releases.<p>The following link from 2 years ago is still very applicable today.<p><a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-January/037294.html" rel="nofollow">http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-Janu...</a>
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Announcement:<p>Some of the highlights:<p>- GCC is no longer installed by default on architectures where clang(1) is the default compiler.<p>- Unbound has been imported to the base system as the local caching DNS resolver.<p>- BIND has been removed from the base system.<p>- make(1) has been replaced with bmake(1), obtained from the NetBSD Project.<p>- pkg(7) is now the default package management utility.<p>- pkg_add(1), pkg_delete(1), and related tools have been removed.<p>- Major enhancements in virtualization, including the addition of bhyve(8), virtio(4), and native paravirtualized drivers providing support for FreeBSD as a guest operating system on Microsoft Hyper-V.<p>- TRIM support for Solid State Drives has been added to ZFS.<p>- Support for the high-performance LZ4 compression algorithm has been added to ZFS.<p>Full details:
<a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/announce.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/announce.html</a>
I'd love to see a LIVE usb stick of this. I'm not really willing to nuke my file systems on my personal laptop only to find out after install that video or wireless card doesn't work right.