For my fellow FOSS’ers who have any interest in Free BSD, in today’s Code Project Insider’s newsletter, there is an item about the FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement.
I hope this is helpful,
Ernie
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Hi @ernie, 
thanks for the info. It´s highly appreciated. I would´ve missed it otherwise.
There´s even a first positive comment about it on distrowatch dating from yesterday.
Here´s the user´s opinion about it:
Upgraded from 14.3 to 15.0 it was mostly easy apart from freebsd-update breaking my
/etc/pkg/*.confbut that was my own fault and managed to fully upgrade very easily.FreeBSD is different compared to the other bsds in that it has great linux emulation (virtualbox works!) and jails are very useful. Also, it uses ufs/zfs file system that is waaay faster than ffs that netbsd & openbsd use (usb is 900kb/s on ffs & 20mb/s on ufs/zfs).
Compared to linux, freebsd is very similar but just better, mostly faster, much more configurable and much more simple. It just works and is fast!
Cheers from Rosika 
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I upgraded yesterday my 14.3. Easiest upgrade I can remember!
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I’m glad it’s useful for you. I suggest you read the release notice in detain because it describes how this release supports your choice of two different file systems, the current/older one and a newer, more feature rich one that will become the default with the next (16) release. If you are a user of this OS, and it’s not your daily driver, you may want to try out the newer file system, but if it is your daily driver, the choice is yours to make 
Ernie
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Linux people should understand… in BSD system upgrades are separate from package upgrades. Upgrading the system in BSD means the kernel and utilities only. The upgrade software is clever… you can go forward more than one version, and you can go backwards. There is nothing like that in Linux.
Package installs and upgrades can be either binaries or compiled from source ( called ports). Packages are stored in /usr/local and are not mixed with the system files.
BSD is a different world. There is no initramfs… only a kernel. It boots differently to Linux.
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i downloaded the qcow2 image to create a VM for the OS to take a look. I like different, so this should be an interesting adventure. I’ve never used a provided qcow2 image before, so this will be very different, from start to use!
Ernie
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Did the qcow2 include a DE? I read earlier that they had plans to include Xfce(IIRC) to the new images for desktop users.
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Hi again,
@ernie :
thanks again.
That I will do. Thanks for pointing it out.
Although FreeBSD it not my daily driver I don´t want to mess it up.
I run it as a VM with KVM/qemu/virt-manager. But to be honest I mostly ssh into the running VM from my host:
firejail ssh rosika@192.168.122.11
Before applying any changes it´s highly advisable to take a snaphot of the current state of FreeBSD:
virsh snapshot-create-as --domain freebsd13.1-3 --name [SNAPSHOT-NAME]
(I never bothered to rename it, therefore it still says 13.1.3.)
It only takes a few seconds (at least if you have more than one snapshot already). 
@nevj :
That really is clever, Neville. I´m glad it works this way.
Presently I´m on:
freebsd-version -kru
14.1-RELEASE-p4
14.1-RELEASE-p4
14.1-RELEASE-p4
I´ll have a closer look at the release notes first, like Ernie recommended.
Many greetings from Rosika
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I’m sorry it took me so long to respond, but I got caught up in some family business for a few days …
I tried to add KDE, but I haven’t been able to learn all I need to know about FreeBSD to get it right yet. I wish they had included a DE by now!
Ernie
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Use the binary package system. Compiling the port is a lot of work for a large package like kde.
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I installed using pkg. That’s the binary package system, isn’t it?
Ernie
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Yes. That is a binary package install.
What happened?
You may need to install Xorg first… I cant remember. … if it were Gentoo you would definitely need to have Xorg, before you tried to install a DE.
Once you have Xorg working, you should be able to start the twm window manager and get a terminal window… just type startx and twm will run.
If you get that far , you can add any window manager or DE or any other X11 app.
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I was trying to figure out how to set things up using Wayland. That was probably my first mistake. I’ll have another go at it soon using Xorg …
Ernie
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I also had issues with Wayland so went back to X. The FreeBSD handbook is great, check it out. Xorg:
Here’s the DE part: FreeBSD Handbook | FreeBSD Documentation Portal
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Thank you! I’m sure that’ll help a lot!
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