BSD News Network » FreeBSD http://BSDNews.net Current Events, Issues and Other News Related to the Entire BSD Community Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:30:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Go for FreeBSD http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2012/03/30/go-for-freebsd/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2012/03/30/go-for-freebsd/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:34:16 +0000 mikel http://BSDNews.net/?p=343 After 30 months Google has released their Go programming language for FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. In addition Google has released a corresponding update to their App Engine SDK all of this in hope of luring developers to their side of the playground. What is especially interesting is that go is a compiled language and that Google aims to make it a viable replacement for some of the more pervasive dynamic web programming languages like PHP, Python and Ruby.

 

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]]> http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2012/03/30/go-for-freebsd/feed/ 0 announce::The FreeBSD Foundation Funds Project to Grow Mounted Filesystems http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2012/03/06/announce-the-freebsd-foundation-funds-project-to-grow-mounted-filesystems/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2012/03/06/announce-the-freebsd-foundation-funds-project-to-grow-mounted-filesystems/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:50:38 +0000 mikel http://BSDNews.net/?p=339 The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz
Napierala has been awarded a grant to implement the ability to grow
filesystems while they are mounted.

“Users of FreeBSD in a virtualized environment will be pleased with
the increased ease of deployment afforded by the ability to grow
mounted filesystems,” said Ed Maste, Director, The FreeBSD Foundation.

This project will add GEOM and filesystem changes that are necessary to
increase the size of both UFS and ZFS filesystems while a filesystem
is mounted read-write. This project will provide the additional
benefit of online provisioning of virtual instances.

The Foundation is pleased to be working with Edward again. He
was previously awarded a grant to implement resource containers
and a simple per-jail resource limits mechanism. This work was
included in FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE.

This project is expected to be completed by October 2012.

]]> http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2012/03/06/announce-the-freebsd-foundation-funds-project-to-grow-mounted-filesystems/feed/ 0 announce::FreeBSD 9.0 officially released http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2012/01/12/announcefreebsd-9-0-officially-released/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2012/01/12/announcefreebsd-9-0-officially-released/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:16:45 +0000 mikel http://BSDNews.net/?p=305 Earlier this afternoon the official announcement of the latest release of FreeBSD hit the mailing list.

A copy is available below as well as on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/announce.html

 

FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Announcement

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on stable/8 and adds many new features. Some of the highlights:

  • A new installer, bsdinstall(8) has been added and is the installer used by the ISO images provided as part of this release
  • The Fast Filesystem now supports softupdates journaling
  • ZFS updated to version 28
  • Updated ATA/SATA drivers support AHCI, moved into updated CAM framework
  • Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework
  • Kernel support for Capsicum Capability Mode, an experimental set of features for sandboxing support
  • User-level DTrace
  • The TCP/IP stack now supports pluggable congestion control framework and five congestion control algorithm implementations available
  • NFS subsystem updated, new implementation supports NFSv4 in addition to NFSv3 and NFSv2
  • High Performance SSH (HPN-SSH)
  • Flattened device tree (FDT), simplifying FreeBSD configuration for embedded platforms
  • The powerpc architecture now supports Sony Playstation 3
  • The LLVM compiler infrastructure and clang have been imported
  • Gnome version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.3

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list available at:

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities please see:

Dedication

The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to the memory of Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of the UNIX[tm] operating system. It is on the foundation laid by the work of visionaries like Dennis that software like the FreeBSD operating system came to be. The fact that his work of so many years ago continues to influence new design decisions to this very day speaks for the brilliant engineer that he was.

May he rest in peace.

Availability

FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures.

FreeBSD 9.0 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick. The required files can be downloaded via FTP or BitTorrent as described in the sections below. While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all architectures, they will all generally contain the more common ones such as amd64 and i386.

NOTE: A problem was discovered with the DVD images for amd64 and i386 architectures shortly after they were loaded on the FTP distribution server. Those images have since been replaced and we have allowed enough time that the newer images should have distributed to all the FTP servers that carry the release. If you downloaded the amd64 or i386 DVD images prior to this announcement it would be a good idea to verify the checksums of the image you downloaded with the checksums provided as part of this Release Announcement. The only thing wrong with the images that were replaced is that sysinstall(8) can not be used to install the pre-built packages on the DVD. Other than that there is nothing different on the updated images. The bad DVD images were never available on BitTorrent.

MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO images are included at the bottom of this message.

The purpose of the images provided as part of the release are as follows:

dvd1
This contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD operating system, a collection of pre-built packages aimed at getting a graphical workstation up and running. It also supports booting into a “livefs” based rescue mode. This should be all you need if you can burn and use DVD-sized media.

disc1
This contains the base FreeBSD operating system. It also supports booting into a “livefs” based rescue mode. There are no pre-built packages.

bootonly
This supports booting a machine using the CDROM drive but does not contain the support for installing FreeBSD from the CD itself. You would need to perform a network based install (e.g. from an FTP server) after booting from the CD.

memstick
This can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive) and used to do an install on machines capable of booting off USB drives. It also supports booting into a “livefs” based rescue mode. There are no pre-built packages.

As one example of how to use the memstick image, assuming the USB drive appears as /dev/da0 on your machine something like this should work:

# dd if=FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync

Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct.

FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 9.0-based products is:

BitTorrent

9.0-RELEASE ISOs are available via BitTorrent. A collection of torrent files to download the images is available at:

FTP

At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE available.

However before trying these sites please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to:

  • ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:

For instructions on installing FreeBSD or updating an existing machine to 9.0-RELEASE please see:

Support

The FreeBSD Security Team currently plans to support FreeBSD 9.0 until January 31st, 2013. For more information on the Security Team and their support of the various FreeBSD branches see:

Other Projects Based on FreeBSD

There are many “third party” Projects based on FreeBSD. The Projects range from re-packaging FreeBSD into a more “novice friendly” distribution to making FreeBSD available on Amazon’s EC2 infrastructure. For more information about these Third Party Projects see:

Acknowledgments

Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to support the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 9.0 including The FreeBSD Foundation, Yahoo!, NetApp, Internet Systems Consortium, Sentex Communications, New York Internet, Juniper Networks, and iXsystems.

The release engineering team for 9.0-RELEASE includes:

Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, amd64, i386, sparc64 Release Building, Mirror Site Coordination
Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Security
Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Documentation
Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Documentation
Bjoern Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org> ia64, powerpc Release Building
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> powerpc64 Release Building
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org> Package Building, Ports Security
Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Security Officer

Trademark

FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.

ISO Image Checksums

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]]> http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2012/01/12/announcefreebsd-9-0-officially-released/feed/ 0 release::FreeBSD 9.0 http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2012/01/05/releasefreebsd-9-0/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2012/01/05/releasefreebsd-9-0/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:14:19 +0000 mikel http://BSDNews.net/?p=301 If you haven’t been paying attention FreeBSD development team has been working extremely diligently to release the ninth major revision of the venerable operating system. Earlier this evening the ftp servers were updated in preparation of tomorrow’s anticipated forthcoming announcement of the 9.0 release availability. For those who are not aware this means that we should also see a release of PC-BSD 9.0 in relatively short succession.

FreeBSD 9.0 ISO list

I for one am looking forward to this new version of BSD as I have played around with several of the release candidates. We will offer a review as soon as possible after the official release. Once we can carve out some spare time to draft one.

]]> http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2012/01/05/releasefreebsd-9-0/feed/ 0 A Part of UNIX Died This Week http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/10/14/a-part-of-unix-died-this-week/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/10/14/a-part-of-unix-died-this-week/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:15:56 +0000 admin http://BSDNews.net/?p=287 We at BSD News are especially remorseful at learning about the death of one of the fathers of UNIX. Dennis Ritchie passed away on October 8th. It is sufficient to say that without the contributions of Mr. Ritchie the world would be extremely different. Just about every major computer technology we take for granted today is a direct result of his work. You can read about his various works in the many obituaries as well as the Wikipedia page.

While many in the Linux world lament this loss it is some what different in the BSD camp. In plainer terms the loss of Ritchie is to those of us in the BSD world what the loss of Torvalds would be to Linux. However what you must bear in mind is that while BSD is a direct descendant of his work Linux if a tangent and merely a copy. Respectfully even Mac OS X is more inline with the work pioneered by Dennis Ritchie and is coworkers.

That being said think of all of the things that we would not have any of the modern technological conveniences that we enjoy today. There would be no iPods, cel phones, personal computers or even Microsoft Windows for that matter. All of these technologies depend upon the C programming language and many of them run a derivative of you guessed it UNIX.

The is a proposal on the the FreeBSD mailing list to dedicate the forthcoming 9.x release of the operating system in honor of Dennis Ritchie. I can honestly think of no better tribute that this considering all that his work has given us.

Perhaps if we receive enough positive commentary we can persuade the developers to follow through on this noble honor.

Please eave your support in the comment stream.

 

Thank you,

Mikel King

 printf(“goodbye, world\n”);

]]> http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/10/14/a-part-of-unix-died-this-week/feed/ 0 announce::Porting of libc++ to FreeBSD http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/09/16/announceporting-of-libc-to-freebsd/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/09/16/announceporting-of-libc-to-freebsd/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:35:26 +0000 dgoodkin http://BSDNews.net/?p=283 The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that David Chisnall has been awarded a grant to implement xlocale APIs to enable porting libc++.

The C standard library (libc) is one of the most important parts of a UNIX system as most programs interact with the kernel through interfaces written in C.  Porting code between platforms with similar libc implementations is trivial and if something is supported by libc, higher-level languages can use it without being reimplemented.

Over time, the C language has slowly evolved to modern multicore systems, but there are still some places that are problematic. One of these is localization as  C began originally had no localization support. FreeBSD libc and Darwin libc (used by Mac OS X) are similar, making it much easier to port code from OS X to FreeBSD than from OS X to Linux. The libc used by OS X supports a set of extended locale functions (xlocale) that allow locale to be set on a per-thread basis.

Additionally, libc++, from the LLVM project, was originally developed on Darwin, so it uses xlocale for most of the C++ locale support.  The lack of this support is the primary obstacle to porting it to FreeBSD.

Once xlocale is supported in FreeBSD libc, we can port libc++ to FreeBSD, giving us an MIT-licensed C++11 standard library implementation.  This, in conjunction with Clang and libcxxrt, means that the entire C++ stack in FreeBSD will be free of any GNU code.  This leaves the linker as the only significant obstacle to a GPL-free FreeBSD 10.

The project will conclude the end of September 2011.

The FreeBSD Foundation

]]> http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/09/16/announceporting-of-libc-to-freebsd/feed/ 0 annoounce::DIFFUSE project comes to FreeBSD http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/09/16/annoouncediffuse-project-comes-to-in-freebsd/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/09/16/annoouncediffuse-project-comes-to-in-freebsd/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:34:11 +0000 dgoodkin http://BSDNews.net/?p=281 The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Swinburne University
of Technology’s Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA) has
been awarded a grant to implement DIFFUSE for FreeBSD.

DIFFUSE (Distributed Firewall and Flow-shaper Using Statistical
Evidence) is an extension to the FreeBSD IPFW firewall subsystem
developed by CAIA <http://www.caia.swin.edu.au>. It allows IPFW to classify traffic based on
statistical properties of flows being observed in realtime, and
instantiate network actions across a distributed set of “action nodes”
for particular flows if required.

This project will tidy up and integrate the existing DIFFUSE prototype <http://www.caia.swin.edu.au/urp/diffuse>
into FreeBSD, and incorporate a number of important new
features. Integration of DIFFUSE into FreeBSD will increase FreeBSD’s
utility to designers and implementers of FreeBSD-based networking
infrastructure.

Network architects frequently require the ability to classify different
traffic types flowing across a network, typically using packet
inspection capabilities of base system tools such as ipfw and pf.
Traffic classification then enables the provision of customized service
levels to different traffic types (such as priority packet queuing and
forwarding, or allocation of specific bandwidth guarantees).

DIFFUSE uses machine learning techniques to enable robust and efficient
classification of IP traffic flows based on their unique statistical
properties in addition to traditional inspection of packet header or
payload contents. DIFFUSE also allows traffic classification to occur in
one place (e.g. in the core of a network) and trigger traffic shaping
and differentiation elsewhere (e.g. at the edges of a network). DIFFUSE
has applications in ISP, residential broadband and large corporate
network scenarios to name a few.

The project will conclude the end of October 2011.

]]> http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/09/16/annoouncediffuse-project-comes-to-in-freebsd/feed/ 0 Troll hunting http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/08/20/troll-hunting/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/08/20/troll-hunting/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:21:05 +0000 mikel http://BSDNews.net/?p=274 In the article Trolling For A Quality Operating System Mikel King takes a moment to analyze a recent flame baited post to FeeBSD-Questions. Most of the analysis is light hearted and tries to expose the troll for what he is. This particular individual carefully crafted a rather insidious post that was at most times non threatening and seemingly educated. Which is why this analysis is most helpful.

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]]> http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/08/20/troll-hunting/feed/ 0 Announcement The FreeBSD Foundation Accepting Travel Grant Applications for EuroBSDCon http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/08/12/announcement-the-freebsd-foundation-accepting-travel-grant-applications-for-eurobsdcon/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/08/12/announcement-the-freebsd-foundation-accepting-travel-grant-applications-for-eurobsdcon/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:57:30 +0000 dgoodkin http://BSDNews.net/?p=269 Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to EuroBSDCon 2011.

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
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/TravelRequestForm.pdf by
September 5, 2011 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

]]> http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/08/12/announcement-the-freebsd-foundation-accepting-travel-grant-applications-for-eurobsdcon/feed/ 0 BSD overtake Linux for development http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/08/12/bsd-overtake-linux-for-development/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2011/08/12/bsd-overtake-linux-for-development/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:35:19 +0000 mikel http://BSDNews.net/?p=267 According to TheInquire.net ~ The irony in all this is that Evans Data’s data shows that while Linux fans have been talking about the death of BSD for well over a decade, it seems that thanks to Apple, BSD in the form of Mac OS X appears to have overtaken Linux in one usage metric.

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