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5: Stacks of Cache
After returning from a successful EuroBSDCon in Malta, we're back to get you caught up on all the latest news! We've got stories, interviews and a special treat for OpenBSD fans later in the show. All that and more on this week's BSD Now, the place to B.. SD.
Headlines
FreeBSD 9.2 released
- FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE is finally out
- Highlights include ZFS TRIM and LZ4 support, virtio drivers, dtrace and OpenSSH updates as well as lots of driver improvements
- Will be supported until 2014-09-30
- Get out there and freebsd-update or buildworld! ***
Four new NetBSD releases
- NetBSD 5.2 and 5.1 branches get security and bugfix updates
- The 6.1 and 6.0 branches were updated soon after, also with security updates and bug fixes
- Check the show notes for the full changelog ***
BIND being replaced by unbound in FreeBSD
- Most FreeBSD users are familiar with BIND from the security notifications
- It has has many vulnerabilities over the years, and we’ll finally be rid of it
- Being replaced with unbound and ldns, everyone rejoices
- As of September 24th, BIND is no longer built by default
- As of September 30th, BIND was completely removed
- Includes an easy to use script for local DNS
- OpenBSD also has unbound in base, but it's not built by default yet ***
DragonflyBSD future plans
- An announcement was posted that details some possible plans for Dragonfly
- dports (their version of FreeBSD ports) will be switching to GCC 4.7
- i915 support is probably going to be in version 3.6
- Work is being done on HAMMER 2, but it won't make it to 3.6
- 3.6 is also likely going to ditch pkgsrc as the default in favor of dports, due to a hugely positive reaction from the community ***
FreeBSD ports get Stack Protector support
- Some portsnap users noticed a massive sweep of every port being updated
- Shortly after, stack protector support was announced by Bryan Drewery
- Only works on i386 and AMD64 on FreeBSD 10 and AMD64 on 9
- Hopefully will become the default, but needs to go through some testing and exp-runs ***
EuroBSDCon 2013 wrap-up chat
- BSD Now is back from EuroBSDCon with lots of stories
- We picked up an OpenBSD 5.4 CD set at EuroBSDCon, before the official release
- We'll give a little showcase of what's inside, they put a lot of effort into it
- Comes with the OS, source code, stickers, music, cool other stuff
- Consider supporting the OpenBSD project ***
Interview - Marshall Kirk McKusick - mckusick@freebsd.org
Various topics
Tutorial
Faster recompiles with ccache and tmpfs
News Roundup
List of vBSDCon speakers posted
- Registration will be open until October 23rd
- Presentations covering FreeBSD, OpenBSD, FreeNAS and others ***
Xen PVHVM added to GENERIC
- It's now possible to run FreeBSD 10 under Xen with the GENERIC kernel
- freebsd-update will work now
- With FreeBSD 10 ALPHA 4 just being released, should be interesting
- We should call the new kernel "XENERIC" ***
Dragonfly AMD KMS port
- A Dragonfly user has started porting the new FreeBSD AMD KMS driver
- Still a work in progress, asking for help from the community ***
NetBSD gets an nVidia driver
- NetBSD gets a preliminary nVidia driver
- So far only supports the GeForce 2MX, so not a lot of use just yet
- No acceleration yet, but it's a start ***
FreeBSD cracks the top 10 on DistroWatch
- Over the last year FreeBSD has steadily moved up the rankings from #18 to #10
- Increasing from an average of 570 to 779 hits per day
- Surpassed CentOS, Puppy Linux and Slackware ***