[HN Gopher] FreeBSD 11.4 End-of-Life
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FreeBSD 11.4 End-of-Life
Author : rodrigo975
Score : 64 points
Date : 2021-09-19 09:54 UTC (13 hours ago)
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| nix23 wrote:
| FreeBSD 11 was a really good release, and FB 13 is just great!
|
| Thank very much FreeBSD folks!!
| antihero wrote:
| I can't get FreeBSD working on Amazon Lightsail. Always says
| connection refused when trying to SSH in, even if I've opened up
| all the ports on the firewall. Any tips? Be really nice to
| finally play about with it for PS2.50 a month.
| torstenvl wrote:
| FreeBSD VMs take a long time to spin up on LightSail.
|
| If you're making a web server here's a simple install script:
|
| https://cipherlog.blogspot.com/2021/02/being-bamf.html?m=1
| nickdothutton wrote:
| I've run a LightSail FBSD for several years. It's been very
| stable. You'll need to ensure you have your sshd port open in
| the AWS security config and of course on any host based packet
| filter if you have one. A static IP is probably also something
| you'll want, again in the AWS console.
| bombcar wrote:
| The AWS Security is the normal cause - so if you're using an
| unknown OS try a known one first, get that working, then
| migrate the instance and IP to your new OS.
| nix23 wrote:
| Vultr is really good, have multiple instances there and on
| Hetzner.
| 5e92cb50239222b wrote:
| Off-topic, but who is using this? $3.50 a month for a machine
| that was fine around 15 years ago. You can get a 4-core aarch64
| server with 24 GBs of RAM for free from Oracle if you're
| willing to sell your soul to the devil. I did a few months ago,
| and it's been great sailing ever since.
|
| https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free
| earthscienceman wrote:
| That's insane. What's the catch here? I do scientific
| computing on my laptop and would love to offload some of that
| to the cloud. Am I going to get hung up somewhere after
| investing a bunch of time only to find out that it's not as
| useful as it sounds due to some obscure fine print?
| hansor wrote:
| There is no catch. I'm using it for a while without much
| problems.
| 5e92cb50239222b wrote:
| No fine print. Even their data transfer limit (10 TiB out
| per month) works as advertised. I run a tor node which
| pushes ~9.5 TiB out each month, leaving half a terabyte for
| myself. No issues yet.
| jlokier wrote:
| Watch out for:
|
| > Resources identified as Always Free will not be
| reclaimed. After your Free Trial expires, you'll continue
| to be able to use and manage your existing Always Free
| resources, and can create new Always Free resources
| according to tenancy limits.
|
| > However, Ampere A1 Compute instances are disabled when
| your trial ends and then deleted (terminated) after 30
| days, unless you upgrade to a paid account. To continue
| using Arm-based compute instances as an Always Free user,
| you must delete your existing Ampere A1 Compute instances
| and create new Ampere A1 Compute instances.
| cperciva wrote:
| Connection refused means you're getting an RST back -- sshd
| isn't running. (Or isn't running _yet_.)
|
| How long did you wait? 11.4 is very old so it's going to spend
| a while installing security updates.
| throw0101a wrote:
| FreeBSD generally has a 5 year support life:
|
| > _Under the current support model, each major version's stable
| branch is explicitly supported for 5 years, while each individual
| point release is only supported for three months after the next
| point release._
|
| * https://www.freebsd.org/security/#model
| amarshall wrote:
| And that largely applies here. FreeBSD 11 was released October
| 10, 2016.
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