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Bsnmp enhancements announced
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Shteryana Shopova has been awarded a grant to make improvements to BSNMP.
This project includes several enhancements to the existing FreeBSD
SNMP framework, including SNMPv3-compliant user authentication, packet
encryption and view-based access control. In addition, the project
also includes a new module that will allow full SNMP management and
monitoring of the FreeBSD wireless networking stack. When the
project is completed, FreeBSD should be the OS of choice when building
open source-based embedded wireless appliances due to the advanced
capabilities of its wireless network stack, and the light-weight,
secure and complete management solution that bsnmpd(1) will provide
out of the box. Existing FreeBSD installations that use bsnmpd(1) for
monitoring will also benefit from the added security and finer-grained
access-control to SNMP data.
“SNMP is the defacto standard for network monitoring,” said Shteryana
Shopova, FreeBSD developer. She also added, “SNMP is used
everywhere – in network servers, switches, routers, firewalls,
workstations, ip phones, printers, UPSs, all sorts of embedded
appliances. I am happy to have the opportunity to work on several
additions to bsnmpd(1) that have been requested by the FreeBSD
community.”
This project will be completed in October 2010.
Sincerely,
The FreeBSD Foundation
OpenSVC clustered service manager comes to FreeBSD 8
Christophe Varoqui <christophe DOT varoqui AT opensvc DOT com>Published the following announcement earlier this morning on the FreeBSD Announce mailing list.
OpenSVC has is now available for FreeBSD
OpenSVC is a GPLv2 project automating the low-level operations needed 1) to bring up system resources (virtual machine container, ip, disk groups, filesystem mounts, application launchers) on a node and 2) to replicate data to secondary nodes (in local or remote sites). OpenSVC can be coupled to a tiers heartbeat daemon to form a full failover clustering stack.
OpenSVC offers a simple service start/stop/status/sync* command line interface.
OpenSVC can be deployed to drive all types of service on all major operating systems, and drive best-of-breed replication strategies available on users’ sites : rsync+snap, zfs, netapp, emc, drbd.
Generalized usage of OpenSVC brings easy group-actions in an heterogeneous datacenter, like those needed for disaster recovery plan activation, or a more localized outage.
The FreeBSD port is fresh and done by newcomers in this world, so community comments are welcome, particularly on the following topics:
- ‘tbz’ packaging.
- Only zfs pools are supported as “disk group” resources. Support for GEOM disk aggregations might be added, if there is Community interest.
- Jail support. OpenSVC does not care about provisioning, but I hope I got the start/stop stuff right.
- Opensvc startup script.
- The port has been done on FreeBSD 8.
Feedback on what breaks on older release is welcome. More information is available on the OpenSVC site.
ClangBSD: A call for beta testers
The ClangBSD project has reach the self-hosting point and the system is stable enough for general beta-testing. ClangBSD is a project fork of FreeBSD that is working to replace gcc with clang by completely integrating this BSD licensed C/C++ compiler. The project has achieved self-compiling of itself and all of FreeBSD world on the i386 & amd64 platforms.
Roman Divacky announced the open call for beta-testers on April 16th.
To learn more about Clang and FreeBSD read their wiki.
PC-BSD joins Facebook
Recently a page claiming to be the Official Fan Page of PC-BSD was setup on Facebook. While there are only a few fans and the PC-BSD developers have yet to acknowledge the page, it is probably a good idea for projects like this to have fan pages. Social media is playing such a huge part in the grow of businesses and open source projects that it will soon be difficult to survive without embracing it.
Let’s hope that the fan page admins stay true to the project.
Announcement: End of Travel Grant Applications for BSDCan
Dear FreeBSD Community,
Today is the last day to submit your travel grant application for BSDCan 2010!
The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel
grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit
the Travel Grant Request Application at by April 9, 2010 to apply for this grant.
How it works:
This program is open to FreeBSD developers of all sorts (kernel hackers,
documentation authors, bugbusters, system administrators, etc). In some
cases we are also able to fund non-developers, such as active community
members and FreeBSD advocates.
(1) You request funding based on a realistic and economical estimate of
travel costs (economy airfare, trainfare, …), accommodations
(conference hotel and sharing a room), and registration or tutorial
fees. If there are other sponsors willing to cover costs, such as your
employer or the conference, we prefer you talk to them first, as our
budget is limited. We are happy to split costs with you or another
sponsor, such as just covering airfare or board.
If you are a speaker at the conference, we expect the conference to
cover your travel costs, and will most likely not approve your direct
request to us.
(2) We review your application and if approved, authorize you to seek
reimbursement up to a limit. We consider several factors, including our
overall and per-event budgets, and (quite importantly) the benefit to
the community by funding your travel.
Most rejected applications are rejected because of an over-all limit on
travel budget for the event or year, due to unrealistic or uneconomical
costing, or because there is an unclear or unconvincing argument that
funding the applicant will directly benefit the FreeBSD Project.
Please take these points into consideration when writing your application.
(3) We reimburse costs based on actuals (receipts), and by check or bank
transfer. And, we do not cover your costs if you end up having to cancel
your trip. We require you to submit a report on your trip, which we may
show to current or potential sponsors, and may include in our
semi-annual newsletter.
There’s some flexibility in the mechanism, so talk to us if something
about the model doesn’t quite work for you or if you have any questions.
The travel grant program is one of the most effective ways we can
spend money to help support the FreeBSD Project, as it helps developers
get together in the same place at the same time, and helps advertise and
advocate FreeBSD in the larger community.
Thank You,
The FreeBSD Foundation
DragonFly BSD Release 2.6
Notable in this release are the fully supported 64 bit edition, enhancements to the HAMMER file system and USB disk key booting in lieu of DVD ISO previously available. It is worth noting that the GUI version of the USB image is only available for the 32 bit version. The developers promise to release the 64 bit version of the GUI USB image as soon as possible.
X.org 7.5 on FreeBSD
Recently a call for testers of the latest X.org version 7.5 went out specifically for FreeBSD users. There have been numerous driver updates that require testing. X.org is the default x11 windowing system for FreeBSD.
If you are interested in helping the project along please see the original notice.
To read more about the project please refer to the official wiki.
Schedule for BSDCan 2010 published
For those who are unfamiliar BSDCan is a BSD Conference held in Ottawa, Canada typically during the second week of May. This year’s conference will run from May 13th & 14th and is preceded by two days of conferences on the 11th & 12th. As this year’s conference approaches the organizers have published a list of events. The schedule of events and speakers is available as a color coded web table or down loadable in various formats including iCal, xCal and even XML.
The conference has continued it’s steady growth and the list of speakers this year is formidable. The following is a short list of examples;
| Speaker | Subject |
|---|---|
| Colin Percival | Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour |
| Kris Moore | PC-SYSINSTALL |
| Roman Divácký | ClangBSD |
| Warner Losh | Enhanced compatibility through device mapping |
| Scott Ullrich | pfSense 2.0 Tutorial |
| Craig Rodrigues | jbuild – next generation build tool for FreeBSD |
If you are able to attend BSDCan you should as it is fast becoming one of the largest BSD conferences worldwide.
JAFDIP reviewed The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD
Mikel King has published a review of Dru Lavigne‘s latest book The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD on his personal blog site JAFDIP. The review give a favorable rating to the book and PC-BSD as a whole. The book is set to hit store shelves the first week of March and covers common user tasks on PC-BSD.
release::PC-BSD 8.0 Hubble Edition
Earlier today iXsystems announced the release of PC-BSD™, Version 8.0, Hubble Edition. This fully functional user friendly open source desktop operating system is built upon the new FreeBSD 8.0 release.
For those who enjoy reading press releases you can find the full press release is available here.
PC-BSD Hubble Edition can be downloaded from the PC-BSD site. In addition the DVD version is also on sale at the FreeBSD Mall.
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