FreeBSD Archive

FreeBSD 4.11 Released

Submitted by Ken Smith 2005-01-25 FreeBSD 16 Comments

This is expected to be the last of the 4.X releases, and will be an Errata Branch. Well-tested fixes to basic functionality will be committed to the branch in addition to the normal security fixes. Most developers are now focused on 5.X or the cutting-edge development in HEAD.

Jeff Roberson begins FreeBSD SMPng VFS integration

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-24 FreeBSD 8 Comments

Jeff Roberson has announced that he has has begun integrating the Giant-lock free VFS code into the FreeBSD 6.x development tree.

FreeBSD’s SMPng

Submitted by Stuck_In_The_Snow 2005-01-22 FreeBSD 27 Comments

Federico Biancuzzi interviewed FreeBSD Core member Scott Long about the SMPng technology, the current implementation status, future goals, and plans.

July-December 2004 FreeBSD Project Status Report

Submitted by Robert Watson 2005-01-18 FreeBSD 11 Comments

Scott Long has released the latest FreeBSD Project status report, describing technical and documentation activities of the FreeBSD Project over the last six months.

FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 realeased

Submitted by J@F 2005-01-17 FreeBSD 10 Comments

The third release candidate of FreeBSD 4.11 is now available.

FreeBSD System Disk Mirroring with GEOM Step-by-Step

Guest post by Ralf S. Engelschall 2005-01-11 FreeBSD 9 Comments

I was asked by co-workers how to establish a RAID-1 (mirror) for the system disk partitions of a FreeBSD 5 system.

Robert Watson announces IPX/SPX now MPSAFE on FreeBSD 5.x

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-11 FreeBSD 5 Comments

In two posts on BSD News pointing at e-mails from Robert Watson, a FreeBSD Core Team Developer, presenting both recent accomplishments relating to IPX/SPX and the general status of SMPng and the network stack are discussed.

Sun revokes FreeBSD’s Java License

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-07 FreeBSD 34 Comments

"The seemingly constant restructuring at Sun has made it difficult to find and retain consistent contacts in their licensing program. The latest blow to our efforts was the recent notification of Sun's desire to revoke and renegotiate the FreeBSD Foundation's SCSL license" says the FreeBSD Foundation. We hope that Sun will reconsider.

Development Release: FreeBSD 4.11-RC2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-03 FreeBSD 7 Comments

The second release candidate of FreeBSD 4.11 is now available, more info here.

Available: A First Install ISO for FreeBSD PPC

Submitted by Guido 2005-01-01 FreeBSD 16 Comments

On the freebsd-ppc mailing list Peter Graham has announced the availability of the first minimal install ISO of FreeBSD CURRENT for PPC (Make sure you're a power user with nerves of steel and read the blurb.

Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date

Submitted by TTF 2004-12-27 FreeBSD 5 Comments

This article is a sequel to the author's previous work "Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date".

FreeBSD Foundation Needs Donations

Submitted by 2004-12-22 FreeBSD 32 Comments

The law that governs nonprofit foundations requires that during its probationary period, at least 1/3 of its donations must be in the form of smaller donations from individuals, or it risks losing its tax-exempt status. Ironically, because of some very-generous donations, it now must make up for that with $30,400 in smaller donations by 12/31/2004. More info on their predicament an info on making donations are available on their web site.

FreeBSD: ULE Scheduler Status

Submitted by FreeBSD_User 2004-12-21 FreeBSD 8 Comments

Since the decision to demote ULE in favor of the 4BSD scheduler as the default for FreeBSD's 5.3-Release, many improvements to both schedulers have been committed. At the time it was marked broken, ULE was especially needy in light of the status of its maintainership, performance issues, and its unreliable nature in conjunction with threading and kernel preemption. Having resolved these problems, Jeff Roberson announces to -current that the ULE code is now in working order: More information can be found on kerneltrap.org.

FreeBSD 5.3: “Stable” But Not Production-Ready

Submitted by Jem Matzan 2004-12-21 FreeBSD 36 Comments

After much development and four previous releases, FreeBSD-5 has finally gone stable with version 5.3. But don't mistake a stable codebase with stable software. While the development team will no longer accept major changes to the base system, FreeBSD 5.3 still has bugs and problems. NewsForge has the review.

Review: FreeSBIE 1.1 – Free System Burned In Economy

Guest post by Dan Gonzalez 2004-12-20 FreeBSD 15 Comments

Version 1.1 of FreeSBIE, a FreeBSD Live CD, was released last week, and here's a first look. Update: Screenshots via OSDir.com.

The first Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11

Submitted by Anon_User 2004-12-20 FreeBSD 18 Comments

The first Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11 has been made available. Please see the full announcement on the FreeBSD-STABLE mailing list here. The full 4.11 release schedule is here. For the "ULTRA" conserative, this appears to be the last release cycle for the 4.x branch.

Implementing Hardware RAID on FreeBSD

Submitted by Nix_User 2004-12-17 FreeBSD 13 Comments

RAID has been around for over 15 years. Why use RAID? For me, the reasons are redundancy and reliability. I don't like disk failures. By running RAID, a disk failure will not take down my system; it still runs after a disk fails. When a disk does fail, I still have my system, and I can find another drive, add it to the system, and be ready for the next failure. Read More at ONLamp.

FreeBSD: ULE Scheduler Status

Submitted by Sammy the Christmas Ham 2004-12-14 FreeBSD 25 Comments

Since the decision to demote ULE in favor of the 4BSD scheduler as the default for FreeBSD's 5.3-Release, many improvements to both schedulers have been committed. At the time it was marked broken, ULE was especially needy in light of the status of its maintainership, performance issues, and its unreliable nature in conjunction with threading and kernel preemption. Having resolved these problems, Jeff Roberson announces to -current that the ULE code is now in working order, kerneltrap reports.

Upgrading to FreeBSD 5.3

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-07 FreeBSD 3 Comments

Dru Lavigne finally had a chance to upgrade her home systems to FreeBSD 5.3. Here are her working notes for both a fresh install and an upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3.

FreeBSD Project Discussions on SysInstall, FS

Submitted by Assad Maseed 2004-12-07 FreeBSD 41 Comments

It is interesting to note that FreeBSD developers are giving consideration to phasing out sysinstall in favor of a new install program for FreeBSD. A Journaling FS like ReiserFS also seems to be on the cards for future FreeBSD releases, Kerneltrap reports.