The first news item about pfSense is not necessarily new, but new to me.
- The next major release of pfSense is going to be significantly different. (other info)
- OpenBSD Gaming Resource,
PDFdocument from a previous comment here. - PkgsrcCon 2018. (via)
- What is your experience with Dragonfly as a user desktop?
- speaking at mug.org 10 April 2018.
- FreeBSD to be Featured at SCaLE 16x.
- 8 months with TrueOS. (via)
- This Tuesday at SemiBUG: QubeOS vs OpenBSD.
- NetBSD Spectre/Meltdown summary. (via)
- Not merging stuff from FreeBSD-HEAD into production branches, or “hey FreeBSD-HEAD should just be production”
- Quickly build and test applications across different BSD kernels with tonixxx.
- *BSD projects and Google Summer of Code.
- Broadcom 43xx 1.0 driver for MBP mid 2014.
- OPNsense 18.1.4 released.
Justin
There is a broken link for the next major release of pfsense
The *PDF* is not a PDF ;^)
Here’s an interesting reddit comment from one of Justin’s links above.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonflybsd/comments/82xbz4/comment/dvfqs52
Paraphrase: Dragonfly has ~200 monthly code commits. OpenBSD has ~1,000 monthly code commits. So OpenBSD is 5x more active than Dragonfly.
Now obviously counting the number of code commits is a flawed metric and not all code commits are created equally. But at a macro / directionally indication – it’s a fairly good comparison.
I really wish more people used and spoke about Dragonfly. It’s so great.
Because when I read comments like:
“
[Dragonfly] is what they describe it to be — a research project. It’s at a stage where all users should be expected to take part in the development and the project seems to need user/developers who want to work on documentation and ports.
“
Just pains me to read that :(
Maybe it’s Qubes OS, even if Mr. Lucas is calling it in a way that seem to advertize a cloud service or something.
And I’ve heard that we -have options- because someone is thinking to port OpenRC over.
What?
Fixed the link – I don’t know why they don’t have a top-level link there. Changed the PDF mention too.
TJ – what is wrong with those comments? Put it another way: Windows has lots of users and tons of activity. Why aren’t you using it?
@justin
Reading something referred to as a “research os” doesn’t sound positive.
DragonFly is pushing boundaries, trying new things. “Research OS” sounds like a good thing to me.
In my book, “Research OS” means a plaything not fit for production.
There is a marketing failure at play here.
I can’t fix your feelings for you, and neither can an operating system.
OpenBSD is *also* a research OS – https://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2015-pledge/mgp00002.html
What problem do you have with “research”?
You do realise that you are a guinea pig for anyone making software, right?