Serious ....

Gertjan

24.03 approaches "stable" so I decided to take a peek.

Create a new ZFS instance, boot into it, and get go "24.03".
The update upgrade went perfect, I have to look at the console output again (all is logged in a file) if I can find 'something' awkward.

But ones in the GUI, I had a shock .... and this was more evil then plain bad.

The RSS feed was telling me that everything went nuts ....

pfSense Software Embraces Change: A Strategic Migration to the Linux Kernel

....

Great, took me a couple of seconds to realize ...
edit .... I'm aware of the date.
They could have posted this blog tomorrow and wouldn't believe it neither.

provels

@Gertjan That's great news! So much better than either FreeBSD or even OS/400.

johnpoz

@provels You guys know what day it is right - April 1st.. Bet you this is just april fools ;)

That they did such a prank is pretty funny to be honest.. I don't recall them doing things before about april fools

jwt

@johnpoz said in Serious ....:

I don't recall them doing things before about April fools

we (I) did, back in 2017 https://www.netgate.com/blog/building-a-behemoth-router
I even pointed to it in today's.

johnpoz

@jwt said in Serious ....:

https://www.netgate.com/blog/building-a-behemoth-router

haha - yeah I remember that one now.. Great that you give it a few years between, so less likely for people to say oh that is just their yearly april fools joke.

I didn't catch the reference in this years. I just gave it a glance over because it was clear it was just April 1st, I don't pay attention to much of anything posted today anywhere.. Or you can get sucked in pretty easy ;)

first one I spotted today was the X space-x sats being used to advertise ;) hehehe in the form of an X..

grahamperrin

@jwt said in Serious ....:

I even pointed to it in today's.

It's almost as if people neither click links, nor seek Netgate-provided discussions of a Netgate announcement ;-)

https://sh.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1burbiz/-/

If I pin it, to the head of the subreddit, two days after April Fools', will anyone here find it tasteless? Or will pinning add to the humour?

jwt

@grahamperrin what if it’s real?

dennypage

@jwt said in Serious ....:

what if it’s real?

Of course it's real... How could it not be?