Archive | October, 2009
New FreeBSD Foundation Project: Flattened Device Tree
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced another funded project! “Rafal Jaworowski and Semihalf has been awarded a grant to provide FreeBSD with support for the flattened device tree (FDT) technology. This project allows for describing hardware resources of a computer system and their dependencies in a platform-neutral and portable way. The main consumers of this functionality are embedded [...]
Continue reading...New FreeBSD Foundation Project: HAST
23. October 2009
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that is funding a new funded project: HAST “Pawel Jakub Dawidek has been awarded a grant to implement storage replication software that will enable users to use the FreeBSD operating system for highly available configurations where data has to be shared across the cluster nodes. The project is partly being funded by [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Release Process
19. October 2009
Ivan Voras sumarised a little while ago the FreeBSD release procedure: “It goes something like this (or at least it did/will be for 8.0-RELEASE): An approximate date is set on one of the DevSummits – this is usually of the granularity of “autumn 2009″ rather than a specific day. As the set date approaches, a more specific deadline [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 6.3 end of life
19. October 2009
On January 31st, FreeBSD 6.3 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of this release are strongly encouraged to upgrade to a newer release before that date — more conservative users will probably wish to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.4 or FreeBSD 7.1 (which [...]
Continue reading...Clang/LLVM support on FreeBSD
15. October 2009
A couple of developers are working to replace GCC in the FreeBSD base system with clang/LLVM. Clang is a compiler built on the Low Level Virtual Machine compiler infrastructure. Both clang and llvm are released under a BSD like license, unlike GCC that’s GPL licensed. Roman Divacky has an update on the project: The situation as of [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (April-Sep 2009)
13. October 2009
The FreeBSD Project has released it’s ‘quarterly’ update with an overview of current and finished projects: This report covers FreeBSD related projects between April and September 2009. During that time a lot of work has been done on wide variety of projects, including the Google Summer of [...]
Continue reading...Could Oracle embrace BSD?
13. October 2009
Mikel King thinks Oracle should embrace BSD: … However, Sun has utterly failed in that respect garnering little support in the general Open Source community. The would have fared better served retooling Solaris into a commercial entity based on one of the BSDs like FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD. Often overlooked by Linux junkies the BSDs have commercial [...]
Continue reading...BSD Professional Job Task Analysis Survey
13. October 2009
The BSD Certification group has posted a survey that is meant to help determine the tasks that should be a part of the BSD Professional Certification Exam (BSDP). The BSD Professional Certification Exam is a more in-depth exam than our BSD Associate exam. The typical BSD Professional is experienced in using one or more versions [...]
Continue reading...Debian pushes development of kFreeBSD port
13. October 2009
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has been around for a while, but now it will be an official part of the distro, combining the strength FreeBSD kernel with the GNU C library and userland utilities. The Debian Project has announced that it sees the port of the Debian system to the FreeBSD kernel fit to be handled equal with [...]
Continue reading...Wowza Media Server FreeBSD port
13. October 2009
Dru mentiones thatWowza Media Server Pro, a commercial streaming server, was ported to FreeBSD. One may think that this is just another ported software to the already huge collection of FreeBSD’s ports. But this is something more, as FreeBSD has just expanded its possibilities in the commercial streaming area. The port was made by talented Polish engineers [...]
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23. October 2009
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