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| Jan Lentfer has now updated pf in DragonFly to version 4.2, on top of his earlier work to get to 4.1. This upgrade apparently doubles speed from 4.1, plus he?s brought in some other, later fixes. Thanks for doing a superhuman amount of work, Jan!... |
| (I ran out of alliterative words, sorry.) Venkatesh Srinivas has committed his work on memory allocation; his commit message has details. He?s kindly provided a link to the article that inspired the per-thread magazine work. He?s also provided graphs to show comparative performance benefits of his new memory allocator on DragonFly and on FreeBSD.... |
Contributed by weerd on Thu Sep 9 06:09:08 2010 from the mexican-standoff dept. Pre-orders are now being accepted for OpenBSD 4.8 , which is scheduled for release on November 1st, 2010. ... |
Pre-orders are now being accepted for OpenBSD 4.8, which is scheduled for release on November 1st, 2010.
The biggest new feature in this release is the vastly improved suspend and resume support. Thanks to the hard work of certain key developers, most newer laptops (those with ACPI instead of APM) can now be suspended and subsequently brought back to life. As usual, many other improvements have been made, the plus48 page lists them all.
Please read on for Theo's announcement to misc
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Antti Kantee has recently joined
the NetBSD core team,
here is a first core announcement
sent out him about two new policies:
- ``new tests must be written using the Automated Testing Framework (ATF)
- core will no longer ok changes without prior public discussion
Extended versions:
1)
NetBSD has always been known for its high quality. To take quality
to the ultimate level, we are actively pushing for automated testing
with regularly run tests and uniform test reports. To this end,
we now require that all new tests are written using the ATF tool.
All exceptions for tests committed to the old src/regress framework
must be ok'd by core prior to commit.
You can find information about ATF from
http://www.NetBSD.org/~jmmv/atf/
and help on w... |
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Matthias Scheler
writes
on behalf of NetBSD's technical (core@) and
administrative (board@) project leadership that
``the i386 and amd64 ports of NetBSD both offer extensive support for the
Xen Hypervisor. This includes running a NetBSD kernel in paravirtualised (PV)
mode as the dom0 (the virtual machine instance controlling the hardware of
the host system) and domU (a normal virtual instance). Support for
paravirtualization is mandatory for dom0 and greatly improves performance
of a domU as no hardware emulation is required. Paravirtualization also
allows using Xen on CPUs without hardware virtualization support.
At the moment NetBSD doesn't support using multiple CPUs (or CPU cores)
when it runs in paravirtualised mode. This is not only a severe performance
limitation on modern x86 hardware it also makes NetBSD a suboptimal
platform for use on Amazon EC2 service (which uses images of paravi... |
| Late last year, the developer of FreeNAS, a FreeBSD based NAS system, decided to move onto CoreNAS, a Debian based NAS system. Developers at iXsystems didn't want to see FreeNAS go by the wayside and have been hard at work on the next FreeNAS version which incorporates a new core design that will allow for modularity.... |
| Well, technically not ripped out, just serialized roughly. This means if you update your DragonFly 2.7 machine in the next few days, the wireless drivers may not work, except for (I think) ath(4). They should return, better, by next week.... |
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It has been said that Marco Peereboom (marco@) has been reinventing the Internet since 2000. Indeed, he has done a tremendous amount of work to help improve OpenBSD in various areas besides creating a slew of very useful Open Source applications. He is a fan of Finite-state Machine and has a passion for doing things the OpenBSD way.
Read on to find out more about marco@, softraid(4) and more:
Read more...
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| Apparently the recently committed support for Areca RAID cards came with some help directly from Areca, facilitated by Venkatesh Srinivas. Perhaps next time you?re searching for a RAID card, consider Areca in light of the effort they are willing to contribute for an open-source project?... |
| Dru Lavigne has an interview in Distrowatch. Some of it is generic ?talk about BSD licensing and etc. only in relation to Linux? style questions, but her answers are well thought-out. (via)... |
| Jesse Smith of DistroWatch recently collected questions from readers for me to answer regarding PC-BSD. The questions and answers are in this week's edition of Distrowatch. Topics include BSD vs GPL licensing, differences between BSD and Linux, package management, ZFS, and boot loaders.... |
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