July 2014 Semi-Annual Newsletter is N...
We\'re excited to announce the publication of the latest semi-annual newsletter. From the new online Journal to the most recent conference reports and project updates, be sure to check out what we\'ve accomplished in the past 6 months.
BSDNow 048: Liberating SSL
As you can probably guess somewhat from the title, BSDNow 048 has an interview about LibreSSL, with Brent Cook. There’s also the normal news roundup, and other recent events.
Using ifstated to monitor links and d...
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The FreeBSD Foundation Semi-Annual Ne...
We are pleased to announce the publication of our 2014 Semi-Annual Newsletter! This is a chance for you to read about what we are doing to help make FreeBSD the best operating system available.
Hammer and mirrored disks
A frequent question people ask when trying Hammer is “How can I do software RAID to cover a disk failure?” Hammer provides for streaming one volume to another, so you can duplicate drives, but there isn’t an automatic failover mechanism as there is with a RAID setup. The first answer is usually “get hardware RAIDR [...]
BSD Magazine: pkg pkg pkg
The July issue of BSD Magazine is out, and it contains several articles about pkg, for use on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and DragonFly. The article on DragonFly and pkg was written by Siju George.
Foundation is Accepting Travel Grant ...
Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to EuroBSDCon 2014.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 [...]
Rust ported to DragonFly
Rust has been ported to DragonFly by Michael Neumann. His blog has implementation details, and you can pull from his repo to get a buildable version. This may be useful, as he notes, for anyone wanting to build Rust on other BSDs.
Call for Testers: radeondrm(4) update...
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g2k14: Ted Unangst on the Art of the ...
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BSD News 28/07/2014
Last week in BSDReleases: noneOther news: Unix, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, LibreSSL, FreeBSD Foundation, BSDnow, pkg, freeNAS, g2k14Releasesseems like none Other newsHibernating to Encrypted softraid(4) Now Supported With this commit, Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) has added support for hibernating to encrypted softraid(4)devices. This is [...]
BSDNow 047: DES Challenge IV
I missed this last week because I was on the road: BSDNow 047 is up, titled DES Challenge IV, has some followup on recent topics like pf in FreeBSD and the recent OpenBSD hackathon, plus an interview of Dag-Erling Smørgrav.
BSDTalk 243: Ingo Schwarze
It’s all multimedia day here, as BSDTalk 243 is also out with 16 minutes of conversation with Ingo Schwarze about mandoc. Mandoc is the man replacement in OpenBSD and built-but-not-yet-used in DragonFly. ‘man replacement’ is probably an oversimplification.
g2k14: Andrew Fresh on Programming Pe...
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Ingo Schwarze Interviewed on BSDTalk
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Lazy Reading for 2014/07/27
I was low on time but I still brought the links!
This is why software sucks. Many people get tech news by skimming headlines, and don’t read details – so prominently writing an opinionated title is more effective sometimes than, say, reasoned argument.
“selective disclosure” is a better term. (same author)
The EFF&# [...]
Are FreeBSD jails being shutdown prop...
This was done on FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p10. After my boss told me about losing qmail logs from a jail some time ago when a server was shutdown, I started looking at some tests to ensure that jails are shutdown properly. I am beginning to suspect they are not. Consider this test. I added this to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nullmailer [...]
In Other BSDs for 2014/07/26
Part of this was done while traveling, but still a decent week for links.
A BSD-licensed timeout(1).
DiscoverBSD roundup for 2014/07/21.
NetBSD has a start of a radeon driver.
FreeBSD has a Phabricator site, which is getting linked in some commits.
The OpenBSD cvsweb was down but appears to be back now.
Lua in NetBSD went (Read more...)
BSDNow Episode 047: DES Challenge IV
On this week\'s
episode, BSDNow interviews FreeBSD Security Officer Dag-Erling Smørgrav, links back to Undeadly g2k14 hackathon reports, and discusses the week\'s BSD news and hearsay.
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