Hi Steven, all! Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org> writes: > Some ideas so far (already more than I can cover in a single article, > but) : > > * new since wheezy > - KMS graphics
Which also means proper mesa 3d drivers in some cases and even non-VESA screen resolutions (intel)! So quite an important piece. > - vt(4) > - firmware loading (for radeonkms, what else?) I'm using it for iwlwifi. Guess I should try/look if it works fine for the Broadcom NetXtreme NICs in the kfreebsd server here. > - suspend/resume seems to work now FWIW not with wpa_supplicant alive and never twice in a row here (though the first time seems to be reliable otherwise). But suspend/resume certainly is something noone really expects to have reliable on every hardware I guess > - MATE desktop environment > - most of Cinnamon's packages (what's missing and why?) > - Petr rewrote our threads implementation in GNU libc Wasn't that in wheezy already? at least all the ruby hangs are gone in wheezy (and gone completely since squeeze EOL on the buildds) > - performance improvements due to GEOM (no figures yet) > - OpenZFS features becoming available (LZ4 etc.) > - OpenJDK 7 Java runtime > - IPSEC in our standard kernel image (anyone got it working yet?) > - Xen PVHVM drivers now in our standard kernel image > - virtio drivers for KVM (see next point) Peter Palfrader asked about virtio stress-testing (especially on AMD hosts) -- I hope to get to that. Did your BigV system use virtio? > * public clouds > - worked fine on Bytemark's BigV, was able to rent a powerful > development environment short-term, and do test-rebuilds more > easily than ever before > - Amazon AWS? (haven't tried it, but know we can run as Xen domU) > > * (delicately!) mention init system, still being a hot topic > - no udev or systemd here; I guess that makes us a "traditional" > Debian flavour, UNIX-like and POSIX-focused > - we did lose GNOME (I think mainly due to logind, but also libgbm) > - otherwise, we seem to have all we need; Robert fixed up consolekit > - we chose to keep sysvinit as default, but are in a position to > easily use alternate init systems; OpenRC looks promising for the > future (perhaps usable already?); I guess file-rc still works Hmm we should really follow up on openrc and see how much already works. Would be great to have the potential jessie+1 default working in jessie. I'll look into that. > * noteworthy bugs found during the course of development > - EN-14:06 / CVE-2014-3880 (was noticed on debian buildds) > - ... > > * other > - building more than 90% of the archive > - only a couple of RC bugs to worry about > - jails still working? though still require manual setup for now > - probably should make images for public clouds, qemu, virtualbox etc. > - personally, I'm now comfortable using GNU/kFreeBSD as an everyday > desktop OS, not just on servers > - could mention some places I've been running it; one of my wheezy > kfreebsd-amd64 mail servers has reached 475 days' uptime (on real > hardware, not a VM) Christoph -- 9FED 5C6C E206 B70A 5857 70CA 9655 22B9 D49A E731 Debian Developer | Lisp Hacker | CaCert Assurer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87r3yjebk7....@anonymous.siccegge.de
