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Releases
FreeBSD 10.0-BETA2 Available
OpenBSD 5.4 Released!
November 1st 2013, Calgary, Alberta and elsewhere:
The OpenBSD project has announced the release of OpenBSD 5.4, the project's 35th release on a steady six month release cycle.
You can order a CDROM set to help support the project.
Notable advancements include new or extended platforms like octeon and beagle, moving VAX to ELF format, improved hardware support including Kernel Mode Setting (KMS), overhauled inteldrm(4), experimental support for fuse(4), reworked checksum handling for network protocols, OpenSMTPD 5.3.3, OpenSSH 6.3, over 7,800 ports, and many other improvements and additions.
The OpenBSD project has announced the release of OpenBSD 5.4, the project's 35th release on a steady six month release cycle.
You can order a CDROM set to help support the project.Notable advancements include new or extended platforms like octeon and beagle, moving VAX to ELF format, improved hardware support including Kernel Mode Setting (KMS), overhauled inteldrm(4), experimental support for fuse(4), reworked checksum handling for network protocols, OpenSMTPD 5.3.3, OpenSSH 6.3, over 7,800 ports, and many other improvements and additions.
Other News
New ideas for Capsicum and DragonFly
Joris Giovannangeli, who worked on porting Capsicum to DragonFly for Summer of Code 2013, is continuing his work. He’s posted a detailed note on how to do capability management in a new way, with it retaining compatibility with FreeBSD’s capsicum implementation.
Getting to know your portmgr@ — Bernhard Froehlich
In our ongoing series on getting to know your portmgr@, we talk to Bernhard Frölich, the one who brought us http://redports.org.
OpenBSD Adds Unattended Installation Support
Uwe Stühler (uwe@) has added preliminary support for unattended OpenBSD installation (think Kickstart or Cobbler) for OpenBSD. Read more...
EuroBSDCon Trip Report: Isabell Long
The next trip report is from Isabell Long.
Bryan Drewery has announced the availability of the official FreeBSD pkgng repository:
We are pleased to announce that official binary packages are now available for pkg, the next generation package management tool for FreeBSD.
Pkg allows you to either use ports with portmaster/portupgrade or to have binary remote packages without ports.
We have binary packages available for i386 and amd64 on 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, and 11 (head).
Pkg will be the default starting in FreeBSD 10.
Happy 20th Birthday FreeBSD!
In honor of the 20th birthday of FreeBSD, we've reconstituted FreeBSD 1.0 on Qemu. We had some help from Warren Block's post over at. Nonetheless, it was a significant challenge.
-CURRENT Events | BSD Now 9
We've got an interview with Henning Brauer about OpenBSD's pf firewall, a tutorial on how to follow the -STABLE and -CURRENT branches of FreeBSD, a recap of what happened at vBSDCon this year.
b2k13 hackathon report: Landry Breuil (landry@) on mozilla and other porting projects
Next in line with his tale from the b2k13 hackathon in Berlin is Landry Breuil (landry@).
Newcons system console project update
Alekandr Rybalko continues to make good progress on the FreeBSD-Foundation sponsored Newcons project. This project will provide a replacement for the legacy syscons system console. Newcons provides a number of improvements, including better integration with graphics modes, and broader character set support.
Code stuff:
PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest 11/1/13
In Other BSDs for 2013/11/02
bsdtalk233 – From GCC to LLVM/CLANG with David Chisnall
Recording of the vBSDCon 2013 talk "Migrating from GCC to LLVM/CLANG" with David Chisnall.
File Info: 1hour, 31MB.
Ogg Link: http://cis01.uma.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk233.ogg
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