FreeBSD 10.1 is awesome!

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frijsdijk

Reading the release notes of 10.1 a couple of days ago, I was very impressed with the loads of improvements in so many areas, that we didn't wait long before upgrading some of our Very Important Machines in our network (mainly ZFS-based storage machines) and the improvements show right away. Very pleased indeed. With the 1M $ donation recently given to the FreeBSD foundation as well, the future looks bright!
 
I haven't done any 9.3->10.1 upgrades yet, only two 10.0 -> 10.1 upgrades. These were ZFS storage machines for backups. As Oko mentioned already, BIND is removed in favor of Unbound. For the rest, I guess it all depends on what this machine is doing?
 
wblock@ said:
Remember that BIND is still in ports. The only difference is the expected location of the configuration files, rather than in /etc/namedb, the port expects them in /usr/local/etc/namedb. Oh, and the option to run named in a chroot(8) is not available. For better security, it can be run in a jail: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS...k/jails-ezjail.html#jails-ezjail-example-bind.
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And for even better security it should be not run at all :p and NSD should be used instead. What kind a DNS server uses Python programming language? BIND 10 of course:rolleyes: Now FreeBSD firstly has to fix the problems with random numbers :)


 
I agree, 10.1 is quite nice. It was also the first time I used bsdinstall(), based upon the comments I have seen, I was a bit concerned. But turned out it was easy to use, got a slightly confused on disk partitioning (needed a repartition) but was easy enough to figure out :)

edit: forgot, pkgng also impressive
 
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