FreeBSD Archive

FreeBSD 6.0 code freeze

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-07 FreeBSD 44 Comments

FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Scott Long says that the much anticipated and feared 6.0 code freeze is about to begin. Scott says that from June 10 until the release, the number one priority will be to fix all outstanding bugs. They will not release FreeBSD 6.0 until it is ready; he is pretty confident that it will be ready by August 2005.

TrustedBSD Status Report

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-03 FreeBSD 4 Comments

Robert Watson has posted a number of status updates relating to various pieces of work going on in the TrustedBSD Project, and in particular, relating to integration of recent changes into the FreeBSD CVS tree for inclusion in the upcoming 6.0 release. This includes a information on verified execution, the MAC Framework, the SEBSD port of NSA's FLASK/TE to FreeBSD, and the new security event audit framework in FreeBSD 6.0.

FreeBSD/NetBSD Summer Projects

Submitted by Joel Dahl 2005-06-02 FreeBSD 40 Comments

The FreeBSD Project is excited to take part in the Google Summer of Code 2005. This project endeavors to fund students to contribute to an open source project over the summer break. The URL for NetBSD's suggested projects is here.

FreeBSD 5.4 review

Submitted by Jem Matzan 2005-06-01 FreeBSD 33 Comments

NewsForge has a review of FreeBSD 5.4 up today. While it's better than the previous three releases, it still doesn't work as well as it should. Many bugs have been fixed, but some big ones still remain, especially on multi-processor and AMD64 machines.

Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

Submitted by Dan 2005-05-25 FreeBSD 36 Comments

FreeBSD Release Engineer Scott Long responds to questions relating to the stability and viability of FreeBSD 5.x releases.

FreeBSD 5.4 released

Submitted by Anonymous 2005-05-09 FreeBSD 46 Comments

FreeBSD 5.4 has been released. Many improvements in functionality and stability have been made since the FreeBSD 5.3 release. Most users should find 5.4 stable enough to migrate off the aging 4.X branch. New features include:

FreeBSD 5.4-RC4 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-03 FreeBSD 32 Comments

The fourth release candidate of FreeBSD 5.4 is out. This will be the last Release Candidate, unless a major problem is discovered as part of RC4 testing the final release will be made early next week. This RC contains fixes to all known major issues.

FreeBSD January- April 2005 Status Report

Submitted by Edwin Brown 2005-04-22 FreeBSD 17 Comments

A FreeBSD status report has been posted. Highlights for 5.4 include CARP support, Initial JDK 1.5.0 support, cpufreq(8), plus more. Highlights for 6.0 include OpenBSD pf v37 import, Proposed journalling support for UFS, IPv6 support fo IPFW, and more.

FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Released

Submitted by Indigo2 2005-04-19 FreeBSD 28 Comments

The third release candidate of FreeBSD 5.4 is now available for testing. Also, due to one major issue that crops up on large (4-processor) systems under heavy load that is still being debugged there will be at least one more RC added to the schedule. Timing for the extra RC and the new Release date have not been set yet.

FreeBSD 5.4-RC2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-12 FreeBSD 23 Comments

The second release candidate of FreeBSD 5.4 is now available for testing.

FreeBSD 5.4-RC1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-06 FreeBSD 26 Comments

The first release candidate of FreeBSD 5.4 is now available for general testing.

FreeBSD: ‘make’ for non-programmers

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-04 FreeBSD 18 Comments

"If you're a typical FreeBSD user, you don't have a background in C programming. Yet, if you've ever used make world to upgrade your operating system or issued a make install somewhere within your ports tree, you've compiled C code. This article covers some make basics so you have an idea what is happening behind the scenes. It also examines some of the options you have available when issuing make commands." Read it here.

Read-only XFS support for FreeBSD 6-CURRENT

Submitted by Edwin Brown 2005-03-22 FreeBSD 6 Comments

A patchset against -CURRENT enables readonly XFS support for FreeBSD.

FreeBSD 5.4-Beta-1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-21 FreeBSD 32 Comments

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team announced the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle.

Mastering FreeBSD & OpenBSD Security

Submitted by n0dez 2005-03-17 FreeBSD 15 Comments

In this chapter (pdf), the author defines system security, specifically for OpenBSD and FreeBSD systems, but also more generally. He looks at a variety of attacks so that you, as an administrator, will have some perspective on what you’re trying to defend against. He looks at risk response and describes how exactly you can go about securing your FreeBSD and OpenBSD systems. Also, the FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE schedule has been published.

FreeBSD Process Management

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-07 FreeBSD 10 Comments

This chapter explains process management in FreeBSD in detail, covering topics like context and thread switching, signals, and jails. Included are some exercises to help you put your new knowledge into practice.

FreeBSD Tips and Tricks for 2005; Points of FreeBSD

Submitted by BSD_User 2005-02-27 FreeBSD 23 Comments

"By the time you read this, the 2004 holiday season will have dissolved into memory. I spent the last days of the year going through my list of "things I want to check out if I ever get the chance." As usual, I found some interesting tidbits." Read more here. Elsewhere, Scott Long of FreeBSD release engineering team describes some of the finer points where FreeBSD continues to innovate and display its mature development environment.

ZoneBSD Announced

Guest post by Bascule 2005-02-25 FreeBSD 14 Comments

I've started a project in anticipation of the upcoming release of OpenSolaris called ZoneBSD. The goal of the project will be to factor as much code from OpenSolaris as necessary into FreeBSD in order to support running FreeBSD from within a Solaris Zone, allowing virtualized FreeBSD instances to be run atop a host instance of Solaris.

Comparison: FreeBSD vs NetBSD

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-23 FreeBSD 41 Comments

Here's a comparison by a BSD user between FreeBSD and NetBSD. Elsewhere, the FreeBSD logo competition has just kicked out, officially this time.

Desktop FreeBSD Part 8: Updating the Core System

Submitted by Timothy R. Butler 2005-02-11 FreeBSD 14 Comments

After everything is installed and setup properly, it's important to keep an eye on updating the system. The emphasis is not so much slavishly chasing the cutting edge of BSD technology. Instead, Ed focuses on security updates and optimization in the latest part of his FreeBSD series.