One of the sessions at EuroBSDCon 2009 DevSummit last week was FreeBSD 9.0 and what the devs would like to see included.
I took pictures of the whiteboard. What do you think of the request and what else would you want to see included (post your comments)?
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Who can upload presentation, video, pdf, all materials from conference ?
Robert Watson wrote in freebsd-advocacy list:
“Fairly soon, we should have slides, papers, and audio recordings of many of
the sessions on the UKUUG web site…”
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2009-September/003855.html
Missing Item: Kernel support for Apple’s Grand Central Dispatch
UJust my $0.02, of course.
Replace rc.d/inet with launchd
full address space layout randomization
full data execution protection/openbsd w^x
native intel GMA 500 drivers
In addition to the other requests:
- Sysinstall able to install on zfs and other filesystems
- Sysinstall to be able to configure basic firewall rules and secure levels preconfigured options
- Clang to be the default instead of gcc
- Sensors framework support similar to Linux lm-sensors
- Full support for HP Proliant server and their support pack utilities
- Jails framework improvements on resource limits and ezjail re-written in C and intergration with the OS
- Introduce real clustering file system
http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/introducing_zfs_crypto_in_oracle
Keeping ZFS up to date with upstream… last year this time they added deduplication, this past week encryption. It would be great to take advantage of that; but currently FreeBSD ports trees seem to be kept in much closer sync with upstream maintainers than ZFS.