http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:10:05 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/21628/DesktopBSD_Development_Comes_to_a_Halt/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21628/DesktopBSD_Development_Comes_to_a_Halt/ It seems like the DesktopBSD project's future is at stake due to a lack developers and time. "Hello everyone, sorry for not keeping in touch with you guys for quite a while," main developer Peter Hofer writes, "Truth is, I find myself having less and less time for DesktopBSD these days. In addition, my interests have shifted quite a bit since I started working on it in 2004 (thinking of it, that's almost 5 years ago now...). As a result, I don't really feel that I can make DesktopBSD progress steadily and significantly on my own. Unfortunately, there are no other active developers nor does it seem like there are any who would be interested in contributing." While the project is not dead yet, there will be no major changes or bugfixes for the upcoming 1.7 release, and it could very well be the project's last release. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:45:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BSD and Darwin derivatives 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News chuck http://www.osnews.com/story/21404/DragonFlyBSD_2_2_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21404/DragonFlyBSD_2_2_1_Released/ DragonFlyBSD 2.2.1 has been released. It's an intermediary release with no important new features, but it does have a number of bugfixes. Get it from the download page. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:35:42 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BSD and Darwin derivatives 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News Budman http://www.osnews.com/story/20998/DragonFly_BSD_2_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20998/DragonFly_BSD_2_2_Released/ Th DragonFly BSD team has released DragonFly BSD 2.2. The biggest improvement in this release is that the HAMMER filesystem is considered production ready, but there is a whole boatload of other improvements as well. Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:19:06 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BSD and Darwin derivatives 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20696/PureDarwin_Xmas_Developer_Preview_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20696/PureDarwin_Xmas_Developer_Preview_Released/ Most of you will know that the underlying core set of components of Mac OS X and the iPhone operating system are released under the Apple Public Source License, an FSF-approved open source license. Few of you, however, will have actually used Darwin in any other form than Mac OS X or the iPhone OS. Despite numerous projects attempting so, Darwin has never gained any significant traction apart from Apple's own interest. The PureDarwin project tries to rise from the ashes of the OpenDarwin project, and has just released a Christmas developer preview. Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:58:54 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BSD and Darwin derivatives 45 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News probono http://www.osnews.com/story/20539/Official_FreeBSD_org_forums_launched_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20539/Official_FreeBSD_org_forums_launched_/ "The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. It is our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channel for FreeBSD users around the world and as a complement to our fine mailing lists." Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:44:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) BSD and Darwin derivatives 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News sonic2000gr http://www.osnews.com/story/20104/DragonFly_BSD_2_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20104/DragonFly_BSD_2_0_Released/ Matthew Dillon has announced the availability of DragonFly BSD 2.0. Also HAMMER filesystem is released with the new DragonFly. Read the full Release Notes. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:09:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) BSD and Darwin derivatives 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News irbis http://www.osnews.com/story/20031/New_malloc_Implementation_Fixes_Ancient_Bug_in_yacc/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20031/New_malloc_Implementation_Fixes_Ancient_Bug_in_yacc/ An ancient (at least 33 years old) stack-overflow bug has been discovered and fixed in yacc, thanks to a new malloc() implementation by Otto Moerbeek. More info and a complete description of the bug can be found here. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:55:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) BSD and Darwin derivatives 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News ohxten http://www.osnews.com/story/19947/Book_Review_The_Best_of_FreeBSD_Basics/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19947/Book_Review_The_Best_of_FreeBSD_Basics/ Dru Lavigne's very useful book turns the arcana of FreeBSD into a comprehensible set of tools. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:12:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) BSD and Darwin derivatives 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 Feature PeteHummers http://www.osnews.com/story/19598/What_Is_Darwin_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19598/What_Is_Darwin_/ "I am very happy about the direction in which the Mac OS X GUI is going, although sadly many Mac users aren't interested in (or don't know about) the "lower levels" of the Macintosh Operating System. Have you ever wondered why the Terminal greets you with the words "Welcome to Darwin"? Why do BSD and Mac OS share certain bits of code? Why does Wikipedia describe Mac OS X as a graphical operating system? Today we're going to take a look at the underlying open source technology which powers your fancy Leopard OS - the hidden core set of components, named Darwin." Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:33:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) BSD and Darwin derivatives 61 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19496/The_NetBSD_Project_Celebrates_Its_15th_Anniversary/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19496/The_NetBSD_Project_Celebrates_Its_15th_Anniversary/ Free OS pioneer NetBSD marks its fifteenth birthday tomorrow. The first commits were made to the NetBSD source code repository on March 21, 1993. In addition to the robust OS it is, NetBSD code has contributed to countless other projects. Congratulations to NetBSD contributors past and present. Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:25:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) BSD and Darwin derivatives 5 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News Oliver http://www.osnews.com/story/19487/MirOS_BSD_10_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19487/MirOS_BSD_10_Released/ The MirOS BSD project has released MirOS BSD xi. "The MirOS Project proudly presents release 10 of MirOS BSD: MirOS xi. A mini-ISO for the installation can be downloaded from mirbsd.org. This image can be burned to a CD and used for installing over the network. The full CD image can be downloaded via BitTorrent. MirOS BSD is a secure operating system, originally based on OpenBSD, for i386 and sparc machines. Read more about it at the 'About MirOS' page. Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:37:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BSD and Darwin derivatives 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19396/DragonFlyBSD_1_12_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19396/DragonFlyBSD_1_12_Released/ DragonFlyBSD 1.12 has been released. "This release is primarily a maintainance update. A lot of work has been done all over the kernel and userland. There are no new big-ticket items though we have pushed the MP lock further into the kernel. The 2.0 release is scheduled for mid-year. Of the current big-ticket item work, the new HAMMER filesystem is almost to the alpha stage of development and is expected to be production ready by the mid-year 2.0 release." Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:41:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BSD and Darwin derivatives 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News vermaden http://www.osnews.com/story/18987/FreeBSD_6_3_Release_Candidate_1_is_avialable/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18987/FreeBSD_6_3_Release_Candidate_1_is_avialable/ The first of the Release Candidate builds for FreeBSD 6.3 is now available. There is one more Release Candidate planned, which will be followed by the release unless a major show-stopper issue crops up during testing. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:21:19 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) BSD and Darwin derivatives 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News vermaden http://www.osnews.com/story/18962/DesktopBSD_1_6RC3_for_AMD64_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18962/DesktopBSD_1_6RC3_for_AMD64_Released/ "DesktopBSD 1.6RC3 for AMD64 is now available for download via BitTorrent and from our mirror sites. It includes several improvements made since the release of 1.6RC3 for i386, including: better performance by disabling SMP on single core/processor computers, fixed installation on disks with special partition names, inclusion of the FreeBSD ports collection on the DVD, and more." Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:59:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BSD and Darwin derivatives 47 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News Oliver http://www.osnews.com/story/18943/PC-BSD_1_4_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18943/PC-BSD_1_4_1_Released/ PC-BSD 1.4.1 has been released. "A update to PC-BSD has been released today, version 1.4.1. This new version may be obtained from our download page, additionally users who are running version 1.4 may download a patch to upgrade." It's mostly a bugfix release. Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:42:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BSD and Darwin derivatives 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/71 News