The GhostBSD team have released GhostBSD 2.5 RC3 for testing. Did you know it is now also possible to build your own GhostBSD?
The Winter/Spring 2012 Edition of the BSDA Study DVD is now available from the BSD Certification website, as announced here.
The DVD contains:
There’s an interesting interview on BSDTalk with Jim Brown from bsdcertification.org. Jim and Will talk about the two available exams and the differences between them.
A new year, a new series of FreeBSD Conferences. Mark them in your diaries if you’re planning to go.
SCALE 2012
iXsystem, FreeNAS, PC-BSD and the FreeBSD Foundation will be represented at SCALE Linux Expo 2012. The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is an annual Linux, Open-Source, and Free Software conference held in Los Angeles. This event will be held in Los Angeles from 20-22 Jan.
AsiaBSDCon 2012
AsiaBSDCon 2012 is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held in Tokyo from 22-25 March. You can apply for a FreeBSD Foundation travel grant.
BSDCan 2012 will be held 11-12 May, 2012 in Ottawa at the University of
Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 9-10 May. There’s a call for papers.
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced it will be funding two new projects:
1. Performance analysis of FreeBSD’s IPv6 stack by Bjoern Zeeb
The project will carry out a detailed performance analysis starting with benchmarking IPv6 to IPv4 to get up-to-date numbers to better understand where we are. It will then continue to identify the origins of differences in performance, and where possible, directly address them or identify areas of future work. Having initial benchmark numbers will allow changes to be evaluated by re-running the measurements and quantifying the improvements.
2. Implementing auditdistd daemon by Pawel Jakub Dawidek
The goal of the auditdistd project is to securely and reliably distribute audit records over the TCP/IP network from a local auditdistd daemon to a remote auditdistd daemon. In case of source system compromise, the attacker’s activity can be analysed using data collected by the remote system, as only the remote system’s audit logs can still be trusted.
More details can be found on the FreeBSD Foundation’s blog: auditdistd project and IPv6 project.
Ken Merry committed CTL to HEAD for testing earlier this week.
From the commit message:
CTL is a disk and processor device emulation subsystem originally written for Copan Systems under Linux starting in 2003. It has been shipping in Copan (now SGI) products since 2005. It was ported to FreeBSD in 2008, and thanks to an agreement between SGI (who acquired Copan’s assets in 2010) and Spectra Logic in 2010, CTL is available under a BSD-style license. The intent behind the agreement was that Spectra would work to get CTL into the FreeBSD tree.
The FreeBSD Foundation spoke to Ken about the benefits of CTL and this is what he had to say.
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