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BSD News 17/02/14

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Releases: FreeNAS
Other news: FreeBSD Foundation, NYCBSDCon, DragonFly BSD, freeNAS, OpenBSD, FOSDEM, BSDnow, n2k14, BSDTalk, PC-BSD, Unix

Releases

FreeNAS 9.2.1 is RELEASED

iXsystems is pleased to announce that the FreeNAS Team has released FreeNAS 9.2.1. This minor update adds a few new features and fixes almost 200 bugs.
Read the full announcement and download the upgrade file over at FreeNAS.org.


Other news

 The FreeBSD Journal is Now Available!

You can find out how to subscribe to the Journal by going to www.freebsdjournal.com. Or, go to the following links for the device you'd like to download to:

 To get the Kindle App click here 
To get the Apple app click here 
To get the Android App click here

The Cluster & The Cloud | BSD Now 24
This week on BSD Now… a wrap-up from NYCBSDCon! We’ll also be talking to Luke Marsden, CEO of HybridCluster, about how they use BSD at large. Following that, our tutorial will show you how to securely share files with SFTP in a chroot. The latest news and answers to your questions, of course it’s BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

bsdtalk238 – Voices from NYCBSDCon 2014 

NYCBSDCon 2014 was great, and I recorded a series of voices from the attendees. Also, the FreeBSD Journal release was announced at the conference.

Go maintainer for DragonFly needed 

We’ve got Go builders running for DragonFly, but nobody actively maintaining Go itself on DragonFly.  The dports version builds, but there’s a Go release coming up and having native support would be much better than relying on chance FreeBSD build compatibility.
The current error as I type this is a TLS problem that sounds like a simple fix, if only I knew where it was.


Code stuff
ACPICA-20140114 added
Call for Testing: iwn(4) 
n2k14 hackathon report: jmatthew@ on fibre channel and assorted other hardware doodads
n2k14 hackathon report: kettenis@ on DRM, multiprocessor scalability, and making dump(8) work again on sun4v
n2k14 hackathon report: dlg@ on locking, midlayers, and network drivers
n2k14 hackathon report: claudio@
Set up BitTorrent Sync in FreeNAS with Plugin (howto) 
PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest 17 
In Other BSDs for 2014/02/15 
How to build FreeBSD/EC2 images  
Unix: Using pushd and popd for faster navigation


Interesting articles
NYCBSDCon 2014 Recap
My NYCBSDCon trip
FOSDEM 2014 Recap
BSD and/on Twitter 
First impressions of FreeBSD 10.0
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BSD News 10/02/14

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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 03/02/14

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Releases: NetBSD, PC-BSD
Other news:  DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Unix, BSDNow


Releases

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

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce:
  • NetBSD 6.1.3, the third security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 6.1 release branch,
  • NetBSD 6.0.4, the fourth security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch,
  • NetBSD 5.2.2, the second security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 5.2 release branch,
  • and NetBSD 5.1.4, the fourth security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 5.1 release branch
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/.


PC-BSD 10.0-RELEASE is Now Available

PC-BSD 10.0-RELEASE is now available for download!
A special thank you to all the developers, testers, translators and docs team members who helped make this release possible.
10.0-RELEASE notable features:
  • Includes FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE
  • 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
  • Able to select between GRUB/BSD loaders during installation
  • New desktops! Gnome 3, Mate (Replaces Gnome2) and Cinnamon
For a more complete list, checkout the What’s New in 10.0.

Other News

The BIG FreeBSD 10 Installation/Upgrade POLL   


FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE became available just over a week ago and we thought it would be interesting to do a poll on FreeBSD 10-RELEASE installations and upgrades. This to find out how many people want to use the latest and the greatest, and how many of you are happy with what they’re already running etc.

FreeBSD Foundation Announces 2013 Fundraising Results

We have our final fundraising results from 2013 and are pleased with the results. In 2013 we raised $768,562 from 1659 donors. If you compare the number with 2012, of $771,193 from 1855 donors, it was a little lower. The difference is primarily because 2012 blew out its goal of raising $500,000.

We have already started our 2014 fundraising efforts. As of the end of January we are just under $40,000. Our goal is to raise $1,000,000. We are currently finalizing our 2014 budget. We plan to publish both our 2013 financial report and our 2014 budget soon.

OpenBSD: Call for Testing: acpiasus(4)  

Paul Irofti (pirofti@) posted to tech@ a call for owners of ASUS laptops to test a diff that may fix attach behaviours.

Journaled News-Updates | BSD Now 22

We talk with George Neville-Neil about the brand new FreeBSD Journal and what it's all about. After that, we've got a tutorial on how to track the -stable and -current branches of OpenBSD. Answers to all your BSD questions and the latest headlines, only on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.


Code stuff
Adding code, removing more code to reduce duplication 
DragonFlyBSD: Time zone changes 
Intel video users, please note
Did I mention new USB?
whoami? I’m PC-BSD 10.0! — Weekly Feature Digest 15 
In Other BSDs for 2014/02/01


Interesting articles
n2k14 hackathon report: deraadt@ on random seeds, signing and hibernation 
The short list #5: coredumping with sudo on #FreeBSD 
Unix: Tracking down ghost accounts 
Email delivery headaches 
BSD Releases January 2014 



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BSD News 28/01/14

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 Releases: FreeBSD, PC-BSD
Other News : OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD etc

Releases

 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE

Some of the highlights:
  • GCC is no longer installed by default on architectures where clang(1) is the default compiler.
  • Unbound has been imported to the base system as the local caching DNS resolver.
  • BIND has been removed from the base system.
  • make(1) has been replaced with bmake(1), obtained from the NetBSD Project.
  • pkg(7) is now the default package management utility.
  • pkg_add(1), pkg_delete(1), and related tools have been removed.
  • Major enhancements in virtualization, including the addition of bhyve(8), virtio(4), and native paravirtualized drivers providing support for FreeBSD as a guest operating system on Microsoft Hyper-V.
  • TRIM support for Solid State Drive has been added to ZFS.
  • Support for the high-performance LZ4 compression algorithm has been added to ZFS.
See the full 10.0-RELEASE announcement here.

PC-BSD 10.0-RC5

The next PC-BSD 10.0-RELEASE-p4 image (based upon FreeBSD 10.0-RC5) is now available for download!
This will likely be our LAST RC before issuing the 10.0-FINAL release in a week or so. Please report any outstanding issues to our bug database.
*** NOTE to users of 10.0-RC4 or earlier ***
Due to an ABI change in FreeBSD between RC4 and RC5, you will need to re-install *all* packages and PBIs after updating  to RC5.
To update your packages, use the following command:
pkg-static upgrade –f
NOTE: This is best done immediately after the upgrade, before rebooting into RC5.


Other News

Signed Installs, Upgrades, and Packages   
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Go testing for DragonFly

Brad Fitzpatrick showed up on the users@ list and mentioned that for DragonFly to be supported in Go, it needed to show up in the Go Dashboard with building reports.  I now have the Go builder running on pkgbox32/pkgbox64.dragonflybsd.org.  Check the builder page to see status.

DragonFlyBSD.org status page 

Antonio Huete set up a DragonFly status page on status.io.

Tendresse for Ten | BSD Now 21

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We’ve got some great news for OpenBSD, as well as the scoop on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE – yes it’s finally here! We’re gonna talk to Colin Percival about running FreeBSD 10 on EC2 and lots of other interesting stuff. After that, we’ll be showing you how to do some bandwidth monitoring and network performance testing in a combo tutorial. We’ve got a round of your questions and the latest news, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.


Code stuff
DragonFly has ASLR 
ACPI update 
PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest 
In Other BSDs for 2014/01/25

Interesting Articles
n2k14 Hackathon Report: guenther@ on threading, time_t cleanup and more 
The Daemon and the Penguin, FreeNAS labels, pfSense, PC-BSD updates 
FreeBSD 10.0 in the news 
October-December, FreeBSD 2013 Status Report 
Unix: Writing more maintainable shell scripts 

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