Solved Difference between FreeBSD 9 and 10 for new users?

mbzadegan

mbzadegan

Hi,

I'm a new FreeBSD user but I still don't know the differences between 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, 10.1?
Where can I find a chart that describes that? (Short and Comprehensive)
 
Put in a search engine "run FreeBSD 9 release for" and then "run FreeBSD 9 stable for" and not only would you have somewhat of a comparison, if not the direct answer, a page likely would be of help to print out and help with the install... or usage...

Based on a good results from the first one above, just then.
 
You can also take a quick peek at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_FreeBSD#Version_history. It doesn't list all of the improvements and changes, but it gives a nice idea of what was added over time. What you appear to be wanting is a side by side overview, like HTC One M8 versus Samsung Galaxy S5 versus LG G3 versus iPhone 6. You can't do that with FreeBSD 8, 9 and 10.
 
Ok
For example I focus on NTFS, New USB Dongle Driver.
Which Released 10.1 or Released 10.0 will be better than for me when booting Live?
 
mbzadegan said:
For example I focus on NTFS, New USB Dongle Driver.
Which Released 10.1 or Released 10.0 will be better than for me when booting Live?
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10.1. It's more or less the same as 10.0, but with many stability fixes and more features. It's also an extended-support release while 10.0 will be EOL in January (just after 10.1 is released).
It seems you intend to use FreeBSD for a desktop system. In that case, 10.x will be more appropriate than early 9.x releases as they have the latest KMS support, the new VT included by default and FUSE (first implemented in 10.0).
 
I wouldn't install 10.0-RELEASE at all now that release of 10.1-RELEASE is so close and more importantly, 10.0 is going to be end of life next January (10.0 being really just a "glorified beta" for FreeBSD 10, 10.1 is the first real release in the FreeBSD 10 line of releases IMHO). In addition if you have Intel graphics and want to use the system as a desktop machine you won't able to use the new vt(4) console with 10.0 and you won't see a thing on the text consoles after starting X.
 
mbzadegan said:
I'm a new FreeBSD user but I still don't know the differences between 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, 10.1?
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Most has already been answered but still... Another good way (in my opinion anyway) to look at this is "stable" vs. "development". Please note that it's hardly as extreme as it may sound, but it does hold truth nonetheless.

I personally consider the 9.x branch as "stable" (note: not insinuating that 10.x is unstable of course). Meaning so much as: there is hardly any development going on here, most of the updates focus at security and not so much new features.

Within that line of thinking 10.x would be denoted as "development" for me (most certainly not 'unstable' or such). As mentioned by the others too: here you'll find the latest drivers, support for the latest hardware and its an ongoing effort.

Although you didn't mention it I'd still like to include it because at the time of writing it's still being supported: 8.x. I'd describe this as "old stable". Its comparable to the 9.x branch where development is concerned, and it basically only gets security updates.

Note that this isn't the official description of this trio, but I still there's some logic to it and might make it easier to keep in mind.

So yeah; for servers my preferred version is definitely 9.3 right now, but workstations or experimental environments are better off using 10.x.
 
I'm going to say, for anyone using a machine with Intel graphics as a workstation, that it is probably worth upgrading to FreeBSD-10.1 even if it's only at RC3. The vt(4) driver makes a huge difference in working with X. In previous versions, if one tried to quit X after starting it, or shift to a virtual console, for me at least, the machine would freeze. Among other inconveniences, this meant that whenever I made some change to X I'd have to reboot, as opposed to just closing and reopening it.
 
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