Bsd Now

This week on the show, we will be interviewing GNN of the FreeBSD project to talk about the new TeachBSD initiative. That plus the latest BSD headlines, all coming your way right now! This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE Announcement (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/announce.html) FreeBSD 10.3 has landed, with extended support until April 30, 2018 This is likely to be the last extended support release, as starting with 11, the new support model will encourage upgrading to the latest minor version by ending support for the previous minor version approximately 2 months after each point release. The Major version / stable branch will still be supported for the same 5 year term. This will allow the FreeBSD project to move forward more quickly, while still providing the same level of long term support The UEFI boot loader is much improved, and now supports booting root-on-ZFS, and the beastie menu The beastie menu itself has been updated with support for ZFS Boot Environments