http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Tue, 21 May 2013 19:02:32 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/26833/FreeBSD_Q4_2012_status_report/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26833/FreeBSD_Q4_2012_status_report/ The FreeBSD project has published a status report covering FreeBSD-related projects during Q4 2012. It details progress on the bhyve type-2 hypervisor, AMD GPUs kernel-modesetting, UEFI and the port to Raspberry PI, among other things. Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:33:15 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News Joel Dahl http://www.osnews.com/story/26654/FreeBSD_on_ARM_closer_to_reality/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26654/FreeBSD_on_ARM_closer_to_reality/ Want to run FreeBSD on your Raspberry Pi or other ARM-based device? You're not far away from being able to do so. The folks over at the FreeBSD Developers Notebook report huge gains made in running FreeBSD on ARM v6 processors. They've got builds prepared for the Raspberry Pi, Beagleboard, and several others, though support isn't yet total. What can you do with it? Lots of stuff, like running the Go programming language on it like Dave Cheney. Cool! Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:16:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) FreeBSD 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News the_randymon http://www.osnews.com/story/26646/FreeBSD_9_1_released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26646/FreeBSD_9_1_released/ The FreeBSD project has announced the immediate release of version 9.1, featuring a new Intel GPU driver and dozens of other drivers, an optional new C+11 stack, lots of improvements to IPv6 hardware offload support, and more. You can now run a ZFS file system in a jail, and the kernel now provides support for IronLake, SandyBridge, and IvyBridge CPUs. Check out the release notes for the juicy details. Sun, 30 Dec 2012 23:47:33 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) FreeBSD 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News the_randymon http://www.osnews.com/story/26644/FreeBSD_Foundation_beats_fundraising_goal/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26644/FreeBSD_Foundation_beats_fundraising_goal/ It's not exciting to talk about money, but it does often take cash to keep funding the developers that improve code. Congrats to the FreeBSD foundation then, for beating their fundraising goal of $500K by almost 40%. The $690K they raised will go to funding coders, developer conferences, and some limited travel. That bodes well for continued strong support for FreeBSD in general, soon to release version 9.1 (currently at RC3). Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:08:16 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) FreeBSD 20 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News the_randymon http://www.osnews.com/story/26532/clang_now_default_compiler_on_FreeBSD_x86/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26532/clang_now_default_compiler_on_FreeBSD_x86/ "I've made clang the default on x86 systems. There will probably be a few bumps as we work out the last kinks including a ABI issue for i386 system libraries, but the transition is expected to be fairly smooth for most users." Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:50:11 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 24 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News Joel Dahl http://www.osnews.com/story/26372/FreeBSD_moves_away_from_GCC_embraces_Clang/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26372/FreeBSD_moves_away_from_GCC_embraces_Clang/ "For the past several years we've been working towards migrating from GCC to Clang/LLVM as our default compiler. We intend to ship FreeBSD 10.0 with Clang as the default compiler on i386 and amd64 platforms. To this end, we will make WITH_CLANG_IS_CC the default on i386 and amd64 platforms on November 4th." Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:19:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) FreeBSD 42 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News R_T_F_M http://www.osnews.com/story/25947/FreeBSD_Clang_replacing_GCC_in_the_base_system/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25947/FreeBSD_Clang_replacing_GCC_in_the_base_system/ "The intent is to switch on this option by default rather sooner than later, so we can start preparing for shipping 10.0-RELEASE with Clang as the default system compiler, and deprecating gcc." Good to see Clang/LLVM continue to gain as much steam as it does. This will only make GCC better. Mon, 14 May 2012 13:55:15 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25504/FreeBSD_9_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25504/FreeBSD_9_0_Released/ Some people already submitted this news last week, but it wasn't until today that it became official: the FreeBSD team has announced the release of FreeBSD version 9.0. As you may expect from the major version number change, this is releas eis packed with new stuff. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:54:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 149 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25252/FreeBSD_9_0_RC1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25252/FreeBSD_9_0_RC1_Released/ "The first RC 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 on test systems. Alternatively, users upgrading existing systems may now do so using the freebsd-update(8) utility." Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:39:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 17 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News Oliver http://www.osnews.com/story/24826/IPv6-only_Testing_Versions_of_FreeBSD_PC-BSD/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24826/IPv6-only_Testing_Versions_of_FreeBSD_PC-BSD/ "The FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems announced today their commitment to support the efforts of World IPv6 Day to accelerate global IPv6 deployment. Earlier this year, the FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems jointly awarded Bjoern Zeeb a grant to create an IPv6-only version of the FreeBSD and PC-BSD open source operating systems." Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:31:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) FreeBSD 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News R_T_F_M http://www.osnews.com/story/24497/FreeBSD_Needs_Fresh_Blood/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24497/FreeBSD_Needs_Fresh_Blood/ "How long have you been using FreeBSD. Months? Years? Decades? And you love using it because of whatever reason but at the same time you're feeling a bit guilty to use it all for free without giving anything back? Well now you'll have the chance to change that. We at FreeBSD are always in need of new people who are willing to spare some of their time and effort into FreeBSD development." Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:55:19 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) FreeBSD 50 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24468/PC-BSD_8_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24468/PC-BSD_8_2_Released/ PC-BSD 8.2 has been released. As the name suggests, this version's based on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and includes KDE 4.5.5, as well as various other bugxes and updates. Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:53:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) FreeBSD 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News Gregory http://www.osnews.com/story/24460/FreeBSD_8_2_7_4_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24460/FreeBSD_8_2_7_4_Released/ The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features. For more information, see the 8.2-RELEASE announcement, and the 7.4-RELEASE announcement, ehch has also been released. Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:33:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) FreeBSD 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News sonic2000gr http://www.osnews.com/story/24313/FreeBSD_7_4_RC2_arrives/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24313/FreeBSD_7_4_RC2_arrives/ "The FreeBSD developers have made available a second release candidate (RC2) for FreeBSD 7.4. This is a precursor to a third release candidate, due next week, as the developers say that there are "several bugs we feel are critical enough to warrant fixing before the 8.2/7.4 releases are finalized". FreeBSD 8.2 saw its second release candidate made available last week." Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:42:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hadrien Grasland) FreeBSD 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News jimmy1971 http://www.osnews.com/story/24269/FreeBSD_8_2-RC2_Now_Available/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24269/FreeBSD_8_2-RC2_Now_Available/ Ken Smith officially announced the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RC2 on the freebsd-stable mailing list. This is the second iteration of Release Candidates which will soon lead to 8.2-RELEASE. An updated release schedule may be found on the FreeBSD wiki. Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:15:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hadrien Grasland) FreeBSD 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/10 News sonic2000gr