Would you like to upgrade to FreeBSD 14 after it released today?

[bsdfans]

FreeBSD 14 released today.
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/14.0-RELEASE/

[franco]

14.1 for sure.


Cheers,
Franco

[Patrick M. Hausen]

As of now FreeBSD 14.0 has not yet been released. The release engineering team being quite a bit annoyed by premature third party release announcements made it abundantly clear on the mailing lists that a new version is released when there is a PGP signed announcement email.

I admit I found the freebsd-update packages to be available and I am also guilty as charged:

[franco]

To be fair, offering an expected/actual date table is not the greatest idea and leads to confusion...

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/schedule/


Cheers,
Franco

[bsdfans]

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/announce/

[almodovaris]

I run FreeBSD 14.0 on my Microsoft Volterra. Web (Epiphany) crashes sometimes, Otter browser crashes often, Firefox and Thunderbird do not work. Gnome does not work (I use LXDE). Of course, much has to do with lack of support for my hardware. But they had a lot of time to fix it before releasing it.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

I run FreeBSD 14 on my Lenovo netbook and have no issues whatsoever. Similar for my coworker on a Tuxedo laptop. What are you implying? They should "fix" the fact that your hardware is not supported? Donate one to the developers and that might even happen.

[bsdfans]

14.1 for sure.


Cheers,
Franco

nod , 14.1 maybe the better choice

[bsdfans]

I run FreeBSD 14.0 on my Microsoft Volterra. Web (Epiphany) crashes sometimes, Otter browser crashes often, Firefox and Thunderbird do not work. Gnome does not work (I use LXDE). Of course, much has to do with lack of support for my hardware. But they had a lot of time to fix it before releasing it.

You can try xfce , but I will not use FreeBSD as the desktop OS instead of server.