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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Interview - Marshall Kirk McKusick - [email protected]

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
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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"
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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
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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
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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
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