FreeBSD 11.1 RC2 Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FreeBSD 11.1 RC2 Released

FreeBSD developers have announced the second release candidate of the upcoming FreeBSD 11.1...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-11.1-RC2-Released

[kylew77]

The graphics situation with FreeBSD has moved from behind the curve to troublesome to downright terrible. One shouldn’t be expected to buy an Nvidia GPU just to run an OS. When that is your platforms best option there are problems. Would love to run FreeBSD on more systems than currently but when vesa graphics are the only option for years it is bad. AMD Southern Islands are still only partially supported and have been so for years (not to mention anything newer that needs AMDGPU driver support). Intel broadwell, skylake, kabbylake, and soon cannon lake are all unsupported. When the handbook says one of the primary purposes of FreeBSD is off the shelf workstations you kinda need working graphics support. Sure you can get Skylake support with the bleeding edge current version from git but that kinda defeats the purpose of a super stable operating system. Sure it’s open source so no one owns anyone anything and if you want it fixed do it yourself but not everyone can hack kernel drivers.

Just really expected to see substantial graphical fixes/updates in version 11.1 but guess that is not the case unfortunately, sad.

[dragon321]

The graphics situation with FreeBSD has moved from behind the curve to troublesome to downright terrible. One shouldn’t be expected to buy an Nvidia GPU just to run an OS. When that is your platforms best option there are problems. Would love to run FreeBSD on more systems than currently but when vesa graphics are the only option for years it is bad. AMD Southern Islands are still only partially supported and have been so for years (not to mention anything newer that needs AMDGPU driver support). Intel broadwell, skylake, kabbylake, and soon cannon lake are all unsupported. When the handbook says one of the primary purposes of FreeBSD is off the shelf workstations you kinda need working graphics support. Sure you can get Skylake support with the bleeding edge current version from git but that kinda defeats the purpose of a super stable operating system. Sure it’s open source so no one owns anyone anything and if you want it fixed do it yourself but not everyone can hack kernel drivers.

Just really expected to see substantial graphical fixes/updates in version 11.1 but guess that is not the case unfortunately, sad.

Who should write drivers for hardware - manufacturer or FreeBSD developers?

NVidia is choice for FreeBSD, because they support this operating system, unlike Intel and AMD. You should ask manufacturer about driver for FreeBSD, not FBSD developers.