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FreeBSD Bugathon

Wed, 2009-01-28 21:22

January 30th, 31st, and February 1st on #freebsd-bugbusters on efnet there will be a bugathon.
The focus will be to work on the backlog of network-related PRs.

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Author: CoolGoose

FreeBSD 7.1

Mon, 2009-01-05 13:21

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:

  • The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads.
  • Support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported from OpenSolaris. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework.
  • A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client.
  • Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices.
  • The cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment.
  • KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3.
  • DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures

Announcement | Release notes | Errata | Download

Author: CoolGoose

FreeBSD 6.4

Sat, 2008-11-29 16:26

Nothing else to say that's in the announcement:

At this time 6.4-RELEASE is expected to be the last of the 6-STABLE releases. Some of the highlights:

  • New and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client
  • Support for the Camellia cipher
  • boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices with GPT-enabled BIOSes
  • DVD install ISO images for amd64/i386
  • KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3
  • Updates for BIND, sendmail, OpenPAM, and others

Announcement | Download | Release Notes | Errata

Author: CoolGoose

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report

Wed, 2008-08-20 22:03

The Foundation has released their July Newsletter.

You can read about the Summer Of Code projects status, the QT/KDE 4 port and many others. Also don't forget to lend a hand if you can in updating the FreeBSD FAQ.

Author: CoolGoose
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