Archive for the ‘FreeBSD’ Category
FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 Available
Posted on September 7th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"
The second BETA build for the FreeBSD-9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on
Change user password in script on FreeBSD host
Posted on August 28th, 2011 by "alp" from "alp's notes"
Changing user password in script on FreeBSD host turned out to be very simpe. Use "pw" for this purpose:
echo "user_password" | pw usermod -V /jails/myjail/etc -h 0 username
A zillion sh updates
Posted on August 23rd, 2011 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"New HighPoint RocketRAID support
Posted on August 23rd, 2011 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"If you have a HighPoint RocketRAID 4321 or 4322 model, Sascha Wildner’s just added support for them in the hptiop(4) driver, taken from FreeBSD.
New committer: Raphael Kubo da Costa (ports)
Posted on August 22nd, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"Two New Videos: SuperPages and NanoBSD
Posted on August 19th, 2011 by "Murray Stokely" from "Murray's FreeBSD Notes"
Thanks to Kirk McKusick, I'm happy to announce two new fully edited high quality videos from BSDCan 2011 in the BSD Conferences YouTube channel. I've also created a new playlist for the BSDCan 2011 videos.
The first talk is "Superpages in FreeBSD" by McKusick, and it describes the addition of superpage support to the FreeBSD 8 kernel on the Intel
The first talk is "Superpages in FreeBSD" by McKusick, and it describes the addition of superpage support to the FreeBSD 8 kernel on the Intel
Luigi Talks Netmap on Google Tech Talks Channel
Posted on August 19th, 2011 by "Murray Stokely" from "Murray's FreeBSD Notes"
Last week, Luigi Rizzo visited Google and gave a talk on high-speed networking with Netmap.
This was Luigi's second talk at Google and the third talk about FreeBSD in the Google Tech Talks YouTube channel. We also have more than 100 videos available in the BSD Conferences channel.
This was Luigi's second talk at Google and the third talk about FreeBSD in the Google Tech Talks YouTube channel. We also have more than 100 videos available in the BSD Conferences channel.
New committer: Eitan Adler (ports)
Posted on August 17th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"FreeBSD Foundation August 2011 Newsletter
Posted on August 9th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"
The FreeBSD Foundation has published their first Semi-Annual 2011 newsletter which summarizes what they have done to help the FreeBSD Project and community.
FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 Available
Posted on August 1st, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"
The first test build for the FreeBSD-9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation
Starve reads or starve writes?
Posted on July 21st, 2011 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"Remember the benchmark tests I linked a few days ago? There’s been ongoing discussion about them, and a recent comment from Matthew Dillon sums it up pretty well: the benchmarks differ depending on whether you favor reads, or favor writes.
Enhanced commit privileges: Gavin Atkinson (src, doc)
Posted on July 17th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"New committer: Ryan Steinmetz (ports)
Posted on July 15th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"Blogbench and Areca RAID tests
Posted on July 12th, 2011 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"Francois Tigeot tested a system under both FreeBSD and DragonFly using various RAID setups with arcmsr(4) and blogbench. Hooray for graphs! Like any good benchmark, it quickly went to discussion of how the test was conducted and how the various runs differ. (Follow the thread.)
New committer: Grzegorz Bernacki (src)
Posted on June 14th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"New committer: Stephen Montgomery-Smith (ports)
Posted on June 13th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"New committer: Chris Rees (ports)
Posted on June 11th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"IPv6-only FreeBSD test images
Posted on June 6th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"
FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems announce IPv6-only test images of FreeBSD and PC-BSD.
