An Introductory article I wrote for the Free Software Magazine several months ago has just been published. The article is an introductory walk through of an “hello world” FreeBSD Kernel module, and also all the steps required to compile a custom FreeBSD kernel (which isn’t strictly necessary to follow the Article).
The article is published in [...]
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Yay, the review I wrote of FreeBSD a few months ago is currently getting some OSNews Love.
For those wondering on the tense, the article was written based off the RC releases and when FreeBSD still had a chance of hitting its December release — which it missed by a wide mark.
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I’m a lurker on a lot of the FreeBSD mailing lists … and found this interesting blurb from Ken Smith somewhat un-officially announcing that 7.0 RC2 would be released early next week and would hopefully be the last RC release
Quick summary we’re shooting for getting 7.0-RC2 done Real Soon Now
(originally targetted this weekend but [...]
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FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 has been released. The main FreeBSD.org page has not yet been updated; however, the RELENG_7_0 branch has been created in CVS and there are ISO builds for i386 and amd64.
This is really exciting. Also remember ULE is still not the default scheduler and must be enabled via a custom kernel and a [...]
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NetBSD 4.0 has just been released supporting several improvments w/regards to Xen the popular paravirtualization package, and also CARP the “Common Address Redundancy Protocol” initially implemented by OpenBSD.
NetBSD 4.0 is dedicated to the memory of Jun-Ichiro “itojun” Hagino, a well known IPv6 hacker who died in October 2007.
Read the release announcement here:http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2007/12/19/0000.html
I’ll be writing a [...]
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Ivan Voras, the main FreeBSD developer behind finstall, the upcoming FreeBSD installer has just created a project on sourceforge to make the development and interaction with the community easier.
The project page is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/finstall/
Needless to say, this would be much easier if the FreeBSD project would just get off its perforce repository for “pre-production” development [...]
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Fresh on the heels of beta1, the FreeBSD team has released Beta2 of their upcoming 7.0 release scheduled for this December.
If you are already running FreeBSD 7 Beta1, the proper way to upgrade to beta2 is by checking out the RELENG_7 tag using a tool like CVSUP.
Announcement: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/037966.html
I’ll update this post in several hours and [...]
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There is a really interesting thread on the FreeBSD-Arch mailing list about supporting a subset of C++ in the kernel. Poul-Henning Kamp (PHK), a well known FreeBSD developer voiced objections early on in favor of an augmented C like language called K (link to FreeBSD wiki).
Poul-Henning Kamp’s main concerns revolved around his opinion [...]
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Network Appliance builds its products around the free and open source FreeBSD operating system. As such they should know a little more about how the Free software community works.
Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems has announced on his blog that Sun will be counter sueing Network Appliance over their initial (troll like) litigation against Sun.
Jonathan [...]
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I downloaded the Beta 1 release — and a bit to my concern the amd64 is quite buggy on my box. I did a fresh install from the CD, so I know it is not cruft left over from my previous system. I installed everything from the iso called: “” — but installing some packages [...]
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Note: This article is half-finished, but I wanted to get my draft out there. I’ll finish up the rest in the next 48-72 hours.
After reading about the FreeBSD Graphical Installer here I was immediately tempted by the inclusion of the recently ported ZFS. I quickly decided I would give the experimental package [...]
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The FreeBSD project does release its release engineering out of a public CVS repository. However as you may or may not know there is a Perforce repository where some of the developer and “corporate” contributions go.
The apparent logic being that there needs to be a separate repository for “experimental” (and corporate) projects that are [...]
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There has been a flurry of reviews (PC BSD Day 30 Verdict, Joe Sixpack Goes BSD, and PC-BSD an initial look) corresponding to the PC-BSD 1.4 (Leonardo) release. I’ve been aware of PC-BSD, and other niche BSD derivatives such as DragonFlyBSD, DesktopBSD, MidnightBSD, and PC-BSD which are all derived from the most popular 4.4BSD-lite descendant: [...]
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The NetBSD release engineering team just release 4.0 release candidate 2. The Kernel Trap has the change list.
I’m planning a few reviews over the next couple of weeks including NetBSD 4.0, FreeBSD 7, PC-BSD 1.4, and OpenBSD 4.2
Check back soon.
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I was browsing the FreeBSD project site (as one does once in a while…) and stumbled across this: Course: FreeBSD Kernel Internals the course is being taught by Marshall Kirk McKusick, one of the books I happen to be holding in my lap: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD operating System.
I attended his “Narrative [...]
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