BSD News 07/07/14

Last week in BSD

Releases: nil
Other news: MirOS, MirOS, DragonFly BSD, Hammer, Cadmium UI, JabirOS, BSDnow, NYCBUG, FreeBSD

Releases

Am I missing something?



Other news

[MirBSD] mksh R50, jupp 27 released 

Both the MirBSD Korn Shell and jupp – the editor which sucks less have seen new releases today. Please test them, report all bugs, and otherwise enjoy all the bugfixes.
Other subprojects will also have new releases… once I get around doing so after hacking them…

Temporary WITH_NEW_XORG repositories available for FreeBSD 9 and 10 

For people needing WITH_NEW_XORG, an alternate pkg(8) repository is now online. It contains a subset of packages affected by this knob. Please see the announce mail for more details.


2014Q3 Branched

The 2014Q3 branch has just been branched and the package builder has been
updated to use that branch. This means that the next update on the quarterly
packages will be on the 2014Q3 branch.
What happened during the last 3 months:
- 177 different committers have participated
- 9918 commits happened
- diffstat says: 23646 files changed, 554070 insertions(+), 577210 deletions(-)
What does that means for users:
- default Java is now 1.7
- massive conversion to stagedir (93% of the ports are now properly staged)
- massive improvement of the usage of libtool (which reduces a lot overlinking)
- new USES: mono, objc, drupal, gecko, cpe, gssapi, makeinfo
- new Keywords for plist: @sample, @shell
- LibreOffice has been updated to 4.2.5
- Firefox has been updated to 30.0
- Firefox-esr has been updated to 24.6
- Default postgresql has moved from 9.0 to 9.2
- nginx has been updated to 1.6.0
- Default lua is 5.2
- subversion has been split into multiple ports for each features
- On FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-STABLE the default xorg 1.12.4 (for default binary
packages it is still 1.7.7)
- Improved QA checking in the infrastructure
- Info files are handle correctly even if base has been built WITHOUT_INFO
- Ancient emacs version has been cleaned out


Default DragonFly/pf keep-policy changed

Matthew Dillon changed the default keep-policy in DragonFly to:

set keep-policy keep state (pickups, sloppy)

This is to match other BSDs (which?  I don’t know) and reduce overhead, according to the commit.

Cadmium UI, a new way for internet-based operating system.

plans for JabirOS 2.1 is an operating system with two sides! one internet-bases, and one HDD-based. Our internet-based side is made up of :

1. HTML5, CSS3 and Java Script based GUI,
2. rollApp based web-applications
3. DuckDuck Go search section in main GUI
4. Tabbed Browsing alongside GUI.

Also, we’ve selected Firefox web browser as a base for running our HTML5-based GUI. The GUI’s name is Cadmium - CadmiumUI demo, for everyone thinks different.

BSDday 

BSDday (http://bsdday.org/), University of Buenos Aires' Faculty of natural and exact sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina 9 August, 2014. BSDday Argentina is a conference for users, sysadmins and developers of BSD software and based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and others *BSD. BSDday Argentina is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience.

Base ISO 100 | BSD Now 44

This time on the show, we'll be sitting down to talk with Craig Rodrigues about Jenkins and the FreeBSD testing infrastructure. Following that, we'll show you how to roll your own OpenBSD ISOs with all the patches already applied... ISO can't wait!
This week's news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.


Code stuff

In Other BSDS for 2014/07/05  

Interesting Articles

Hammer and buffers 
How to keep Hammer empty 
NYCBUG: Introduction to Timekeeping, 2014/07/02
Getting to know your portmgr-lurker: William Grzybowski   

 

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BSD News 09/06/14

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Last Week in BSD
Releases: FreeBSD, JabirOS, PC-BSD, DragonFly BSD
Other news: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, git, BSDnow, BSDTalk, BSDCan, portmgr@


Releases

FreeBSD 9.3-BETA1 Now Available

The first BETA build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.

The image checksums can be found in the PGP-signed announcement email.

ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available here:
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/


JabirOS 2.0.1 has been released   

JabirOS 2.0-RELEASE needed some little corrections in bsdinstall program and some other scripts. We have edited codebase, and now, JabirOS 2.0.1 is here. 


DragonFly 3.8 released

The 3.8 release of DragonFly is out!  See the release page for a changelog and check your local mirror for download first.
Binary dports packages for 3.8 have been built; they are available for download.  (link goes to release versions of the packages.  Future updates will be in ../LATEST)

PC-BSD 10.0.2-PRERELEASE ISO Available for Testing

The next 10.0.2-PRERELEASE ISO is now available for testing and can be downloaded from
http://download.pcbsd.org/iso/10.0-RELEASE/testing/amd64/.
If you have a spare system or virtual machine, consider testing this image. If you find any bugs, report them at https://trac.pcbsd.org so we can take a look at fixing them before 10.0.2 is released later this month.

Other news

bsdtalk242 – PFSense with Chris Buechler 

Interview with Chris Buechler at BSDCan 2014.File Info: 17Min, 8MB.Ogg Link: http://cis01.uma.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk242.ogg

AirPorts & Packages | BSD Now 40

 On this week’s episode, we’ll be giving you an introductory guide on OpenBSD’s ports and package system.  There’s also a pretty fly interview with Karl Lehenbauer, about how they use FreeBSD at FlightAware.  Lots of interesting news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

Code stuff
Call for Testing: ld.so Malloc Improvements 
sendmail(8) Patch In -stable Fixes Local Snooping Vulnerability 
OpenSSL Releases Bugfixes, Advance Notice To Some Vendors But Not OpenBSD 
In Other BSDs for 2014/06/07 


Interesting articles
BSDCan Trip Report: Michael Dexter 
Getting to know your portmgr@ – Steve Wills 
Unix: Why you should love nmap  
Playing nice with others. git(1) and patches on #FreeBSD 
Hacking on Receive Side Scaling (RSS) on FreeBSD

 Wallpaper of the week

from: http://www.pcbsd.org/en/artwork.html

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BSD News 19/05/14

Last week in BSD
Releases: JabirOS,GhostBSD
Other news: Unix, DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD,TrueNAS, portmgr@, iXsystems, 

Releases

JabirOS is released for Cubieboard 1 

More Information and Download : Link

JabirOS image is now available for Raspberry Pi

Link : JabirOS for Raspberry Pi

GhostBSD 4.0-ALPHA3 now available 

After a long awaiting time the third ALPHA build of the 4.0-RELEASE release cycle is ultimately available on SourceForge for the amd64, i386 architectures.
The image checksums, ISO images and USB images are available here:
http://www.ghostbsd.org/download-4.0

Other news

iXsystems, Inc.’s TrueNAS Achieves VMware Ready™ Status

“We are pleased that iXsystems, Inc.’s TrueNAS qualifies for the VMware Ready™ logo, signifying to customers that it has met specific VMware integration and interoperability standards and it works effectively with VMware cloud infrastructure, which will speed time to value within customer environments.” said Sanjay Katyal, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. 

Preorders Open For The Book PF, 3rd Edition

The third edition of The Book of PF is now available for preorder from the No Starch Press site. There will also be an early access program for the very eager readers. Author Peter Hansteen (also a co-editor here) tells us that highlights of the new edition include a walkthrough of the new traffic shaping system, a bit more IPv6 material than previous editions and various updates and fixes to the text so it's in line with the recently released OpenBSD 5.5 and will hopefully be useful past OpenbSD 5.6 and some time into the future.

Frederic Culot takes over as portmgr-secretary@

It is with great pleasure that the FreeBSD Ports Management Team announces that Frederic (culot@) Culot will take over responsibilities of team secretary effective immediately.
Frederic became a ports committer in October 2010, and joined the ranks of portmgr-lurkers@ in March 2014 as the shadow secretary.

BSDCanned Goods | BSD Now 37

This week we're at BSDCan, ganging up on people and forcing them to give us interviews. Assuming we don't get arrested for harassment, we'll be back next week with your regularly scheduled programming.
For now, we've got some feedback emails to catch up on, as well as a prerecorded talk Matt Ahrens gave about ZFS.
We'll be back to tell you all about the conference next week, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

Code stuff
Updates for libpcap, file
Atheros updates for sleep 
GSI CPU Autoselection 
Freelist Recycling Tweaks in OpenBSD 
PC-BSD: Weekly Feature Digest 29 — PBING 
ral(4) updates 
Portmaster tip: you are using the new version 
In Other BSDs for 2014/05/17 


Interesting article
Unix: Automating your server inventory
Green Platform Anti-Vibration Test 
The First Ever LibreSSL Status Report (the first 30 days)

Pic of the week

as found at: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112370801182816491936/ 

Let's have a nice BSD week again ;]

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BSD News 17/03/14

[BSD] Get a free KVM VPS to play with! And write about it. 

Last week in BSD

Releases: PC-BSD
Other news: JabirOS, DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD, portmgr@, FreeBSD Foundation, BSDCan, Mirama, OpenSMTPD, BSDnow, GhostBSD

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BSD News 10/02/14

Last week in BSD
Releases: NetBSD, FreeNAS
Other News: DragonFly BSD, pkg, FreeBSD, n2k14, OpenBSD, JabirOS, NetBSD, BSDnow

Releases

NetBSD 6.1.3, NetBSD 6.0.4, NetBSD 5.2.2, and NetBSD 5.1.4 patch releases 

These releases represent a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. Updating to one of these versions is recommended for users of all prior releases.
For more details, please see the NetBSD 6.1.3 release notes, the NetBSD 6.0.4 release notes, the NetBSD 5.2.2 release notes, or the NetBSD 5.1.4 release notes.
Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 6.1.3, NetBSD 6.0.4, NetBSD 5.2.2 and NetBSD 5.1.4 are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found at http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/.

FreeNAS 9.2.1-RC2

Announcing FreeNAS 9.2.1-RELEASE 

After one BETA, two Release Candidates, and many nightly builds (which many of you tested, to our everlasting gratitude) we are, as always, proud to announce the public availability of FreeNAS 9.2.1-RELEASE.
FreeNAS 9.2.0 was a great release, and we’re pleased to say that FreeNAS 9.2.1 is even better!   Since 9.2.0 was released, we have fixed over 189 bugs, added new features, polished the UI, and improved the performance of FreeNAS even further!
The documentation has also been updated for 9.2.1, though the source code (see release notes) is still a useful reference for features like the web API, which comes with several examples in the source tree.



Other news

DragonFly and Google Summer of Code 2014 

Already asked this question on kernel@, but repeat it here.  Who is interested in mentoring for DragonFly, for Google Summer of Code 2014?  The org application period is starting today, and it would be neat to do this for a seventh year in a row.

Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools

There comes a time in the life cycle of just about every software package that it has bee re-evaluated, refreshed, deprecated or just retired.
It is time that we bid farewell to the old pkg_* software that has been part of FreeBSD since the beginning, and has served us well. After years of development, testing, and playing, pkg(8) has become a suitable replacement.


Time Signatures | BSD Now 23

We’ll be talking with Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD team about their new signing infrastructure. After that, we’ve got a tutorial on how to run your own NTP server. News, your feedback and even… the winner of our tutorial contest! It’s a big show, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD. 

Code Stuff
n2k14 Hackathon Report: krw@ on dhcp and disk labels 
Working on Final version, What will I see in 2.0-RELEASE? 
New C-state possibilities
C-state sysctl followup 
PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest 16 
In Other BSDs for 2014/02/08 


Interesting articles
Unix: When to look for a new job 
BSD Releases January 2014 
Creating PBI’s with EasyPBI
FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems Collaborate to Further the Cause of High Performance Computing on FreeBSD 
httperf tuning for #FreeBSD testing

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BSD News 13/01/14

For live BSD news follow discoverBSD on twitter at @janhovancik ! 


Last week in BSD
Releases: PC-BSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
Other news:  BSDTalk, DragonFly BSD, Halon Security, JabirOS, BSDnow, Google Summer of Code, ssh,



Releases

New release of SR (OpenBSD based router/firewall) SR 3.2-R1


PC-BSD 10.0-RC3 now available 

Notable features and changes from RC2 are:

• Includes FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 from 12/26/2013
• Updated KMS / AMD driver support
• ISO file is a hybrid USB file, and can be “dd”ed to a USB media.
• New text-based installer
• New UEFI loader on installation media
• Able to select between GRUB/BSD loaders during installation
• New desktops! Gnome 3, Mate (Replaces Gnome2) and Cinnamon
• And much more

Use the ISO with caution (not on production systems) and let the PC-BSD dev team know of any issues you may come across.

FreeBSD 10.0-RC5 Now Available

Changes between -RC4 and -RC5 include:

• Fix an IPv4 multicast regression.
• Fixes OpenSSL for CVE-2013-4353, CVE-2013-6449, CVE-2013-6450.
• Revert a change to the kinfo_file structure to preserve ABI.
• Fix a race condition which could prevent the file descriptor table from being properly updated.

OpenBSD-current is now 5.5-beta 

changelog page and see what the upcoming goodies are (newqueue and automated install comes to mind), then install and test! New snapshots with a 5.5-beta version tag should be appearing on your favorite mirror shortly (and has been spotted at the .eu mirror).
Time to head over to the


Other news

bsdtalk237 – The FreeBSD Journal with George Neville-Neil 

An interview with George Neville-Neil about the upcoming FreeBSD Journal electronic magazine.  More information at http://www.freebsdjournal.com/

File Info: 22Min, 10MB.

Ogg Link: http://cis01.uma.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk237.ogg


Halon One of Four Cloud and Virtualization Security Startups to Watch in 2014

Stated in Enterprise Networking Planet by Jude Chao, Halon is certainly a Cloud and Virtualization Security startup to watch in the future.
Read the article and statements made by Halon Security Inc CEO, Jonas Falck.

JabirOS 2.0-RELEASE sources are available on our server

JabirOS 2.0-RELEASE sources are available on our server.
Features :

1. Completely forked.
2. Based on 10-RC5

ISO images will be available soon.

The Installfest | BSD 19 

download (size: 486 MB )

We've got some special treats for you this week on the show. It's the long-awaited "installfest" segment, where we go through the installer of each of the different BSDs. Of course we also have your feedback and the latest news as well... and... we even have our very first viewer contest! There's a lot to get to today on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

Code stuff
RTL8191SE support 
PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest
GSoC: SysV IPC code added in 
cyapa mousepad support grows 
In Other BSDs for 2014/01/11 
PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest 

Interesting articles
Tracking the bleeding edge of DragonFly 
DragonFly on a Chromebook c720  
Hal, dbus, and VMWare tip. Also pkg locking
McKusick Denies FreeBSD Lagging on Security, ITWire, Sam Varghese 
Tricks for making ssh/scp connections better

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BSD News 23/12/13

Last week in BSD
Releases: FreeNAS
Other News: ssh, OpenBSD, FreeBSD Foundation, EuroBSDCon, JabirOS, OpenBSD, ruBSD, BSDTalk, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD
 

Releases

FreeNAS 9.2.0

Jordan Hubbard has announced the release of FreeNAS 9.2.0, a FreeBSD-based operating system that enables the users to build networked storage: "After one early beta and two release candidates, it gives us great pleasure to announce the full and final release of FreeNAS 9.2.0. As implied from the series of pre-releases, this release has benefitted substantially from a great deal of public testing as well as several months of 'living on' testing we ourselves have done on a wide variety of hardware. This is, without a doubt, the best release of FreeNAS yet. Since 9.1.1 was released, we have fixed 268 bugs in the bug tracker, as well as countless others that were found and fixed independently of the bug tracking system. We have also made a number of enhancements to the UI and generally done our best to bring more polish to the FreeNAS system, both in usability and performance." Continue to the release announcement to find out more. Download (SHA256) from here: FreeNAS-9.2.0-RELEASE-x64.iso (163MB).

Other news

USENIX LISA 2013 Managing Access Using SSH Keys   

Tatu Ylönen invented the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol in 1995 and even the history of OpenSSH mentions how OpenSSH is a derivative of the original free ssh 1.2.12 he released. He is also the founder and CEO of SSH Communications Security which sells a commercial version of ssh. A few more details can be found on the USENIX LISA 2013 page for "Managing Access Using SSH Keys" but the audio and video files are linked below.

SSH user keys are ubiquitously used for accessing information systems by automated processes and system administrators. Many large organizations have hundreds of thousands of keys granting access, with many keys providing privileged access without auditing or controls. The talk educates the audience about risks arising from unmanaged access using SSH keys; discusses what is required by compliance mandates; outlines how to establish effective operational processes for provisioning, terminating, and monitoring SSH user key based access; and outlines how to understand and remediate SSH user keys in an existing environment.

Editor's note: This talk is, in no small part, a push for a commercial product; the issues raised in regards to lax management of SSH keys, however, are valid enough to warrant careful consideration of one's own key regime.
Available audio and video formats: Video MP4 | Video WEBM | Audio MP3 | Audio OGG

FreeBSD Foundation Announces Capsicum Integration Project Completion

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the successful completion of work on the improvement and integration of the Capsicum framework and the Casper services daemon. The Google Open Source Programs Office and the FreeBSD Foundation jointly sponsored Paweł Jakub Dawidek for this project.

Capsicum is a lightweight OS capability and sandbox framework developed at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Capsicum extends the POSIX API, providing several new OS primitives to support object-capability security on UNIX-like operating systems. Capsicum is now a standard part of FreeBSD, and ports to other operating systems are in progress.

EuroBSDcon 2013 Developer Summit Special Status Report 

This special status report contains a summary of the discussions from the various working groups at the EuroBSDcon 2013  Developer Summit. From the table of contents: Desktop Developer Summit Track DNS Documentation Embedded Platforms Networking Ports and Packages Security Toolchain and Build Systems USB Vendor Discussions Virtualization ZFS   EuroBSDcon 2013 Developer Summit Special Status […]

After a huge delay!   

Greetings. Jabir Project team is sorry because of delay in releasing new version.After this delay, we decided to wait for FreeBSD 10.0 then we’ll start our project again. Regards. Muhammadreza Haghiri

Cryptocrystalline | BSD Now 16

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We’ll be showing you how to do a fully-encrypted installation of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. We also have an interview with Damien Miller – one of the lead developers of OpenSSH – about some recent crypto changes in the project. If you’re into data security, today’s the show for you. The latest news and all your burning questions answered, right here on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD. 

 

OpenBSD ruBSD Talks Online   

ruBSD 2013 talks online:
Fresh from a successful tour of the motherland, our fearless OpenBSD devs have placed their

• Security Mitigation Techniques: An update after 10 years, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
• OpenBSD: Where crypto is heading? (Russian, English), Mike Belopuhov (mikeb@)
• OpenBSD's pf: Design, Implementation, Future, Henning Brauer (henning@)

BSDTalk 236: NYCBSDCon and 8 years too   


BSDTalk, which is hitting its 8th year, has 20 minutes of conversation with Ike Levy and Brian Callahan about NYCBSDCon.  (which is coming up on February 8th; will you sponsor?)

PulseAudio Gains Greater FreeBSD Compatibility

As some other interesting open-source audio news this week besides PulseAudio now supporting the systemd journal is that Lennart Poettering's sound server is continuing to be better supported on FreeBSD.

The necessary changes have been made to the mainline PulseAudio sound server code-base that provide greater FreeBSD operating system compatibility. Only a few dozen lines of code were changed in this latest commit for handling of code that was Linux specific.

It's not too much of a big deal though given that there's already been some level of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD support by this LGPLv2.1 sound server. PulseAudio is also compatible with Solaris and Windows operating systems.

The commit improving the PulseAudio FreeBSD support can be found by this Git commit.


Code stuff

OpenBSD: tmpfs Enabled in -current  
New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2013-012 Router Advertisement and 013 ELF interpreter local Denial of Service 
PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest 12/20/13 
In Other BSDs for 2013/12/21 


Interesting articles

Survey of rump kernel network interfaces 
Interview with Amitai Schlair member of The NetBSD Foundation’s Board of Directors 
You need to construct additional pylons. Building wine for #FreeBSD 
My DragonFly 3.6 upgrade adventure 
Faces of FreeBSD – Kevin Martin 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czV1049YGGA

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BSD News 9/23/13

Last week in BSD

Releases: FreeBSD, GhostBSD
Other News: JabirOS, BSDNow, OpenZFS, MirOS, DragonFlyBSD

Releases

FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA2 Now Available

The second ALPHA build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures.

The image checksums are at the end of the announcement announcement email.

ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available here and at any of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

FreeBSD 10 Release Schedule is also available. 

GhostBSD 3.5 RC1 is now available!

The first release candidate builds of the 3.5 release is now available on SourceForge for LXDE and Xfce on amd64 and i386 architectures.
The image checksums, ISO images and USB images are available here:
http://www.ghostbsd.org/download-3.5

Changes between BETA3 and RC1 include:

• FreeBSD RC3 to RC4.
• Installer progress black window fixed
• Bxpkg Package Manager "fail to start due to some GTK+ issue" is fixed
• Mate BSM theme is Fixed
• New GDM login theme

Known issue.

• Bxpkg Update Manager don't work properly and can harmed the system if used.
• GDM might hang, but should be usable.

Jabiros 1.5 will be released soon

JabirOS 1.5 , will be released soon. this release, is a complete fork of FreeBSD 9.2 , and version 2.0 and later will be based on 1.5 codebase !
The new JabirOS installer is available for test, on our github.
What will be new in version 1.5 ?!

1. XFCE Desktop Environment
2. Chromium Browser
3. LibreOffice
4. VLC Media Player

 

 The third episode of BSD Now

Interesting blogposts about using +PC-BSD:

Daily use of PC-BSD : first week 
PC-BSD flash plugin
Using PC-BSD : Third week 

OpenZFS Project  

The OpenZFS project was announced . According to Justin Gibbs of the FreeBSD Foundation: this is a cross-platform effort to ensure the continued evolution of the ZFS file system. For developers and users of FreeBSD, the formation of OpenZFS clarifies the future of ZFS support for our platform.  The FreeBSD project is now an equal partner in defining the course for ZFS. OpenZFS combines the man power of the FreeBSD, Illumos, Linux, and MacOS communities to provide a level of test coverage, feature development, documenation, and support that wasn't possible with our separate efforts.  Most importantly, OpenZFS will improve platform interoperability and reduce fragmentation of ZFS implementations. 

DragonFly Moving dports to gcc 4.7

DragonFly has two included compilers – GCC 4.4, and GCC 4.7.  Traditionally, we switch from one compiler to the other as default, and then replace the old one with a newer release, and so on.
Until recently, dports built almost exclusively using GCC 4.4.  John Marino’s switching to GCC 4.7, for a variety of reasons he lists in a recent post to users@.

The MirOS: Rolling is the new buzzword

The MirOS Project is proud to announce that the NetInstall area contains a fresh snapshot of MirBSD-current for the i386 and sparc architectures. In due time, a hand-crafted Live ISO image, with some packages configured and grml-mir added, will be published here, so watch this space ;-)
As someone in IRC already mentioned, MirBSD is currently published on a “rolling release” schedule (although we’ll eventually release MirBSD #11… some day). The snapshots are intended mainly for people to use when installing, or trying out MirBSD, but also as an upgrade aid (so recompiling afterwards (to be even more up to date) is very easy) and a baseline for binary packages (although there have been few (though MuPDF is a recent noteworthy addition) MirPorts packages lately, and I somehow doubt bsiegert@ wants me to gift one of my SPARCstation boxen to him for building pkgsrc® quarterlies).

Did I forget some important news? Let the others know in comments! 

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August BSD releases

It's been a long month. Pretty much the same as any other August. BSD folks were really busy so we can get some fresh releases.

Here is a list of some (based on time of release, from beginning till end of August +-).

FreeNAS 9.1.0

The FreeNAS development team is delighted to announce the general release of FreeNAS 9.1.0. This release offers massive improvements to the usability, extensibility, stability, and performance of FreeNAS. Everything from the web user interface, plugin management system, base operating system, ZFS file system, and even the source control used to manage the project have been substantially improved. 



FreeBSD 9.2-RC1


PC-BSD –STABLE (9.2-BETA2)

 
FreeBSD 9.2-RC2

JabirOS 1.0.1 

We’re pleased to announce new release of “The new JabirOS” after a long time! This version is based on FreeBSD 9.2-RC1. In this version , we’ve added  ”OpenBox” as default window manager and “SLiM” as default display manager.
In this release , we don’t have any web browser, player or office suite. you can install them after using “pkg_add”.
And we have a new installer called “jabirinstall”. jabirinstall is a simple shell script. Installation process is very similar to ArchBSD/Archlinux. you can find installation guide here.

In picture , you can see “JabirOS + OpenBox + Xterm”.

X11 , OpenBox , feh , nano , sudo , rsync and a lot of software are added in this release.

Download

NetBSD 6.1.1 

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1.1, the first security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 6.1 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons.
For more details, please see the 6.1.1 release notes.
Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 6.1.1 are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found at http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/.

  

GhostBSD 3.5-BETA1

 
FreeNAS 9.1.1-RC2


FreeBSD 9.2-RC3

 
MidnightBSD 0.4-RELEASE-p2
MidnightBSD 0.4-RELEASE-p3


BSD Router Project Nightly builds upgraded to FreeBSD 9.2-RC3


GhostBSD 3.5-BETA2

FreeNAS 9.1.1-RELEASE

A number of cosmetic issues, UI tracebacks and outright bugs (such as 32 bit plugins not working) have been addressed since 9.1 was released. A few features that were known to be broken, such as AIO in Samba3 or IPv6 in plugin jails, were also disabled to avoid people shooting their feet off.
Finally, a number of important ZFS stability fixes were also picked up from the TrueOS repo during the creation of 9.1.1-RELEASE.
Thank you for all your participation and assistance during the 9.1.1 BETA and Release Candidate process. This release benefited significantly from your suggestions and bug reports!

For a list of all bugs closed between FreeNAS 9.1.0 and FreeNAS 9.1.1, please see http://bit.ly/16cANlo

FreeNAS 9.1.1-RELEASE can be downloaded from http://www.freenas.org/download.html as well as from CDN and SourceForge.

 I might have missed something, feel free to correct me in comments.

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BSD News 08/19/13

Last week in BSD

FreeBSD  9.2-RC2 - JabirOS 1.0.1 - DragonFly BSD GSoC - Viking OS - OpenBSD 64-bit time - BSDTalk - vBSDCon

Releases

FreeBSD 9.2-RC2 has been announced. 

FreeBSD 9.2-RC2 has been announced.
Changes between -RC1 and -RC2 include:

• Fix a boot issue caused by some GPT partitioning tools.
• Fix a regression that caused some PCI disk controllers disappearing during boot.
• Fix the FTP path used to fetch distribution packages when installing from the bootonly.iso.
• Fix a regression in sendmail that caused problems between the resolver and Microsoft DNS servers with AAAA lookups.
• Disable MSIs with Adaptec 2230S and 2820SA (aac(4)).
• Update FTP mirror list used by bsdinstall(8) and bsdconfig(8).
• Fix panics caused by early interrupts in igb(4).
• Fix panics when downing or unloading the mlx(4) driver.

JabirOS 1.0.1 is released!

We’re pleased to announce new release of “The new JabirOS” after a long time! This version is based on FreeBSD 9.2-RC1. In this version , we’ve added  ”OpenBox” as default window manager and “SLiM” as default display manager.
In this release , we don’t have any web browser, player or office suite. you can install them after using “pkg_add”.
And we have a new installer called “jabirinstall”. jabirinstall is a simple shell script. Installation process is very similar to ArchBSD/Archlinux. you can find installation guide here.

In picture , you can see “JabirOS + OpenBox + Xterm”.

X11 , OpenBox , feh , nano , sudo , rsync and a lot of software are added in this release.

Download

Other news

DragonFly and Summer of Code, week 8

If you look at the reports from students this week, they are mostly “I had bugs and I fixed them and there’s not much to do other than test”, which is the sign of well-planned projects.   Here’s the status reports:

• Daniel Flores: HAMMER2 compression feature
• Larisa Grigore: System V IPC in userspace
• Pawel Dziepak: Make vkernels checkpointable
• Joris GIOVANNANGELI: Capsicum
• Mihai Carabas: hardware nested page table support for vkernels

 

64-bit Time on OpenBSD

Phillip Guenther(guenther@) has rolled over time on OpenBSD to 64 bits, avoiding Yet Another Time Apocalypse^tm for at least another week. Read more... 

FreeBSD Powering Open-Source Wearable Computing: Viking OS

 

“Are you still clinging on to your Smartphone? Embrace the future with Viking. Smartphones are outdated.”

 

   We have all heard of Google Glass and many geeks are eagerly waiting for the announcement when these glasses will be available to all. You may not have heard about a software company called Brilliant Service which is based […]

bsdtalk230 – vBSDcon with Verisign CTO Burt Kaliski

 

Interview with Verisign CTO Burt Kaliski about vBSDcon.
More information at http://www.vbsdcon.com/

vBSDCon: Registration Open, Hacker Lounge, Doc Sprints

 

Verisign is hosting a new biennial BSD conference (vBSDCon) in Dulles, VA from October 25-27. The conference, formatted to resemble the unConference concept, will bring together members of the BSD community for a series of roundtable discussions, educational sessions, best practice conversations, and exclusive networking opportunities.

In addition to the schedule of talks, the event will host a nightly hacker lounge for developers as well as nightly doc sprints. If you are interested in learning how to contribute to BSD documentation, drop by the doc sprint room where doc committers will be available to get you started. The BSDA certification exam will also be available on Saturday evening.

Registration is now open. The fee is only $75 and includes the welcome dinner on Friday and breakfast on Saturday and Sunday.

Wallpaper of the week

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