unixster - *nix news for admins, by admins » BSD http://www.unixster.com /* You are not expected to understand this */ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:30:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Identifying Speedy Solutions In Losing Weight After Pregnancy http://www.unixster.com/2012/02/03/identifying-speedy-solutions-in-losing-weight-after-pregnancy/ http://www.unixster.com/2012/02/03/identifying-speedy-solutions-in-losing-weight-after-pregnancy/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:58:40 +0000 valentineramos http://www.unixster.com/?p=3005 While you wish to lose weight, you соuld feel hungry between meals and the good news іs that thеrе аre sоmе healthier snacks available. From the classic selection of fruits up to some a littlе lеss obvious things, there is an array of foods that уou cаn select from. Needless to ѕау, you need tо keep уour absolute goal of lose weight in 3 days in yоur mind rather than overcook it. Even thе healthiest food will make you gеt weight, in thе event that you eat too muсh оf it. Just what exaсtly healthy snacks fоr weight reduction can you eat without endangering your goals?

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]]> http://www.unixster.com/2012/02/03/identifying-speedy-solutions-in-losing-weight-after-pregnancy/feed/ 0 announce::DruidBSD 9.0b56 released http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/31/announcedruidbsd-9-0b56-released/ http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/31/announcedruidbsd-9-0b56-released/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:30:03 +0000 I am Root http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/31/announcedruidbsd-9-0b56-released/ DruidBSD is a universal boot solution for FreeBSD based on SYSLINUX(TM). This micro distribution resides on a gzipped 1.9MB floppy and can allowing you to boot and install FreeBSD 9.0 (32 or 64 bit) onto most types of media, CD/DVD drives, USB flash drives and of course hard disks.

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]]> http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/31/announcedruidbsd-9-0b56-released/feed/ 0 announce::BSDCan 2012 – call for papers – extended http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/30/announcebsdcan-2012-%e2%80%93-call-for-papers-%e2%80%93-extended/ http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/30/announcebsdcan-2012-%e2%80%93-call-for-papers-%e2%80%93-extended/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:31:15 +0000 I am Root http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/30/announcebsdcan-2012-%e2%80%93-call-for-papers-%e2%80%93-extended/ We apologize that http://www.bsdcan.org was offline for 12 hours from early Sunday morning.

The deadline for submissions has been extended to Tuesday 31 January.

BSDCan 2012 will be held 11-12 May, 2012 in Ottawa at the University of
Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 9-10 May.

NOTE: This will be Fri/Sat with tutorials on Wed/Thu.

We are now accepting proposals for talks.

The talks should be designed with a very strong technical content bias.
Proposals of a business development or marketing nature are not
appropriate for this venue.

If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system,
please submit a proposal. Whether you are developing a very complex
system using BSD as the foundation, or helping others and have a story
to tell about how BSD played a role, we want to hear about your
experience.  People using BSD as a platform for research are also
encouraged to submit a proposal. Possible topics include:

* How we manage a giant installation with respect to handling spam.
* and/or sysadmin.
* and/or networking.

From the BSDCan website, the Archives section will allow you to review
the wide variety of past BSDCan presentations as further examples.

Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences.

The schedule is:

8 Jan 2012 Proposal acceptance begins
31 Jan 2012 Proposal acceptance ends
19 Feb 2012 Confirmation of accepted proposals

See also <http://www.bsdcan.org/2012/papers.php>

Instructions for submitting a proposal to BSDCan 2012 are available
from: <http://www.bsdcan.org/2012/submissions.php>

–
Dan Langille – http://langille.org

]]> http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/30/announcebsdcan-2012-%e2%80%93-call-for-papers-%e2%80%93-extended/feed/ 0 announce::iXsystems – PC-BSD 9.0 Isotope Edition Released http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/20/announceixsystems-%e2%80%93-pc-bsd-9-0-isotope-edition-released/ http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/20/announceixsystems-%e2%80%93-pc-bsd-9-0-isotope-edition-released/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:00:04 +0000 I am Root http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/20/announceixsystems-%e2%80%93-pc-bsd-9-0-isotope-edition-released/ More desktop choices, updated PBI system round out new feature list

From the outer reaches of deep space to the miniscule nucleus of an atom, the developers of PC-BSD make it clear that the scope and possibilities of PC-BSD are endless. Following the release of the Hubble Edition, iXsystems eagerly announces the release of PC-BSD® 9.0: Isotope Edition.

PC-BSD is a stable, secure, and user-oriented desktop operating system based on FreeBSD. Kris Moore, founder and lead developer of the PC-BSD Project, states that “PC-BSD 9.0 marks an important step in the series. Users are now given the flexibility and power of running the desktop of their choice, fully integrated with the PC-BSD tool library and PBI package management system.”

At first glance, PC-BSD 9.0 Isotope Edition offers more available desktop choices. In this latest version, many open source Window managers (GNOME, LXDE, XFCE, and KDE) are fully supported. More users can run their preferred desktop while still being able to enjoy all the features and advantages that PC-BSD offers.

New enhancements have also been added, including an updated PBI (Push-Button Installer) system. PBIs are self-contained applications that allow users to easily install programs without deleting or overwriting important data. Isotope’s 8.x predecessor allowed users to easily download, install, and update applications. The new PBI system makes significant improvements by efficiently organizing PBI dependencies without unnecessary duplication.

As always, updating new versions of software will not interfere with previously working ones, and now disk space is also conserved. The new AppCafe, replacing the Software Manager, provides an easy way to obtain and manage applications from a graphical user interface, and works across all supported desktops.

“PC-BSD 9.0 has truly innovated the BSD world and proved to me that their system is easy for anybody to use, while still containing the core aspects of one of the most stable operating systems,” says Mark Shaw, Systems Administrator and Web Developer at Card’s Computers, Inc. “It really is a beautiful system and I love the AppCafe. This is probably one of the biggest achievements the PC-BSD team has made in making it easy for people to install software.”

PC-BSD 9.0 also includes full integration of ZFS v28 thanks to the FreeBSD® Project. ZFS (Zettabyte File System) is an open source 128-bit file system that provides triple-redundancy storage without a RAID controller, automatically restores corrupted files from redundancies, and allows users to incrementally back up a snapshot of the filesystem to a remote ZFS volume.

More new features offered include:

  • Enhanced Life Preserver, which allows users to back up their system with greater ease.
  • New Update Manager that automatically checks for updates.
  • Ability to update to the next major point release without reinstalling.
  • Control Panel configurations can now be saved across desktops.
  • Touchscreen drivers are now available. Users can download, run, and operate PC-BSD without ever touching a keyboard.
  • Wireless configuration profiles are added to the system; users can quickly view and connect to available connections.

“It has been a long time since I have been truly impressed with an operating system and PC-BSD just absolutely nailed it with PC-BSD 9.0 Isotope Edition. All of the rough corners from 8.0 Hubble Edition have been polished off, and the GUI is second to none. Installation is simple and flawless, and ZFS works beautifully. I can (and will) install 9.0 to a 3TB drive, and I am looking forward to finally having a dedicated PC-BSD system,” remarks Al Fairclough, a retired Photo Imaging Consultant.

For more information on PC-BSD, or to download the new PC-BSD 9.0 Isotope Edition, please visit http://pcbsd.org. It is also available for retail sale at http://www.freebsdmall.com on DVD.

About PC-BSD

PC-BSD is a fully functional, user-friendly desktop operating system based on FreeBSD. It runs on the latest FreeBSD version 9.0 with a desktop interface of the user’s choice and graphical system installer. Its PBI system, developed for PC-BSD and also available on FreeBSD, allows users to download and install their applications in a self-extracting and self-installing format.

About iXsystems, Inc.

iXsystems® is the all-around FreeBSD company that builds FreeBSD-certified servers and storage solutions, oversees FreeNAS development, and is the corporate sponsor of the PC-BSD Project. iXsystems is an employee-owned and operated, open source-centric, customer focused organization, dedicated to providing the highest quality built-to-order enterprise rackmount server solutions, pre-configured server appliances, and scalable storage solutions to our customers around the globe. More information about iXsystems is available on the web at http://www.iXsystems.com.

]]> http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/20/announceixsystems-%e2%80%93-pc-bsd-9-0-isotope-edition-released/feed/ 0 annouce::FreeBSD 9.0 officially released http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/14/annoucefreebsd-9-0-officially-released/ http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/14/annoucefreebsd-9-0-officially-released/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:30:03 +0000 I am Root http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/14/annoucefreebsd-9-0-officially-released/ Earlier this afternoon the official announcement of the latest release of FreeBSD hit the mailing list.

A copy is available below as well as on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/announce.html

 

FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Announcement

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on stable/8 and adds many new features. Some of the highlights:

  • A new installer, bsdinstall(8) has been added and is the installer used by the ISO images provided as part of this release
  • The Fast Filesystem now supports softupdates journaling
  • ZFS updated to version 28
  • Updated ATA/SATA drivers support AHCI, moved into updated CAM framework
  • Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework
  • Kernel support for Capsicum Capability Mode, an experimental set of features for sandboxing support
  • User-level DTrace
  • The TCP/IP stack now supports pluggable congestion control framework and five congestion control algorithm implementations available
  • NFS subsystem updated, new implementation supports NFSv4 in addition to NFSv3 and NFSv2
  • High Performance SSH (HPN-SSH)
  • Flattened device tree (FDT), simplifying FreeBSD configuration for embedded platforms
  • The powerpc architecture now supports Sony Playstation 3
  • The LLVM compiler infrastructure and clang have been imported
  • Gnome version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.3

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list available at:

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities please see:

Dedication

The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to the memory of Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of the UNIX[tm] operating system. It is on the foundation laid by the work of visionaries like Dennis that software like the FreeBSD operating system came to be. The fact that his work of so many years ago continues to influence new design decisions to this very day speaks for the brilliant engineer that he was.

May he rest in peace.

Availability

FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures.

FreeBSD 9.0 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick. The required files can be downloaded via FTP or BitTorrent as described in the sections below. While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all architectures, they will all generally contain the more common ones such as amd64 and i386.

NOTE: A problem was discovered with the DVD images for amd64 and i386 architectures shortly after they were loaded on the FTP distribution server. Those images have since been replaced and we have allowed enough time that the newer images should have distributed to all the FTP servers that carry the release. If you downloaded the amd64 or i386 DVD images prior to this announcement it would be a good idea to verify the checksums of the image you downloaded with the checksums provided as part of this Release Announcement. The only thing wrong with the images that were replaced is that sysinstall(8) can not be used to install the pre-built packages on the DVD. Other than that there is nothing different on the updated images. The bad DVD images were never available on BitTorrent.

MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO images are included at the bottom of this message.

The purpose of the images provided as part of the release are as follows:

dvd1
This contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD operating system, a collection of pre-built packages aimed at getting a graphical workstation up and running. It also supports booting into a “livefs” based rescue mode. This should be all you need if you can burn and use DVD-sized media.

disc1
This contains the base FreeBSD operating system. It also supports booting into a “livefs” based rescue mode. There are no pre-built packages.

bootonly
This supports booting a machine using the CDROM drive but does not contain the support for installing FreeBSD from the CD itself. You would need to perform a network based install (e.g. from an FTP server) after booting from the CD.

memstick
This can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive) and used to do an install on machines capable of booting off USB drives. It also supports booting into a “livefs” based rescue mode. There are no pre-built packages.

As one example of how to use the memstick image, assuming the USB drive appears as /dev/da0 on your machine something like this should work:

# dd if=FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync

Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct.

FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 9.0-based products is:

BitTorrent

9.0-RELEASE ISOs are available via BitTorrent. A collection of torrent files to download the images is available at:

FTP

At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE available.

However before trying these sites please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to:

  • ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:

For instructions on installing FreeBSD or updating an existing machine to 9.0-RELEASE please see:

Support

The FreeBSD Security Team currently plans to support FreeBSD 9.0 until January 31st, 2013. For more information on the Security Team and their support of the various FreeBSD branches see:

Other Projects Based on FreeBSD

There are many “third party” Projects based on FreeBSD. The Projects range from re-packaging FreeBSD into a more “novice friendly” distribution to making FreeBSD available on Amazon’s EC2 infrastructure. For more information about these Third Party Projects see:

Acknowledgments

Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to support the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 9.0 including The FreeBSD Foundation, Yahoo!, NetApp, Internet Systems Consortium, Sentex Communications, New York Internet, Juniper Networks, and iXsystems.

The release engineering team for 9.0-RELEASE includes:

Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, amd64, i386, sparc64 Release Building, Mirror Site Coordination
Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Security
Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Documentation
Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Documentation
Bjoern Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org> ia64, powerpc Release Building
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> powerpc64 Release Building
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org> Package Building, Ports Security
Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Security Officer

Trademark

FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.

ISO Image Checksums

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]]> http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/14/annoucefreebsd-9-0-officially-released/feed/ 0 release::FreeBSD 9.0 http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/06/releasefreebsd-9-0/ http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/06/releasefreebsd-9-0/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:14:19 +0000 I am Root http://www.unixster.com/2012/01/06/releasefreebsd-9-0/ If you haven’t been paying attention FreeBSD development team has been working extremely diligently to release the ninth major revision of the venerable operating system. Earlier this evening the ftp servers were updated in preparation of tomorrow’s anticipated forthcoming announcement of the 9.0 release availability. For those who are not aware this means that we should also see a release of PC-BSD 9.0 in relatively short succession.

FreeBSD 9.0 ISO list

I for one am looking forward to this new version of BSD as I have played around with several of the release candidates. We will offer a review as soon as possible after the official release. Once we can carve out some spare time to draft one.

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]]> http://www.unixster.com/2011/11/03/releaseopenbsd-5-0/feed/ 0 FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 http://www.unixster.com/2011/10/24/freebsd-9-0-rc1/ http://www.unixster.com/2011/10/24/freebsd-9-0-rc1/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:20:51 +0000 I am Root http://www.unixster.com/2011/10/24/freebsd-9-0-rc1/ The first release candidate of FreeBSD 9.0 is available. Although a several weeks behind the original schedule in our experience t BSD News it is always well worth the wait.

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Previously projected schedule:

Action Expected Actual Description
Initial release schedule announcement - 19 April 2011 Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule.
Release schedule reminder - 6 May 2011,
15 June 2011		 Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule.
Code freeze begins 17 July 2011 18 July 2011 Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the head branch will require explicit approval. Certain blanket approvals will be granted for narrow areas of development, documentation improvements, etc.
BETA1 20 July 2011 1 August 2011 First beta test snapshot.
BETA2 3 August 2011 - Second beta test snapshot.
releng/9.0 branch 3 August 2011 - Subversion branch created, propagated to CVS; future release engineering proceeds on this branch.
BETA3 17 August 2011 - Third beta test snapshot.
RC1 24 August 2011 - First release candidate.
RC2 31 August 2011 - Second release candidate.
RELEASE build 7 September 2011 - 9.0-RELEASE built.
RELEASE announcement - - 9.0-RELEASE press release.
Turn over to the secteam - - RELENG_9_0 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement.
]]> http://www.unixster.com/2011/10/24/freebsd-9-0-rc1/feed/ 0 A Part of UNIX Died This Week http://www.unixster.com/2011/10/16/a-part-of-unix-died-this-week/ http://www.unixster.com/2011/10/16/a-part-of-unix-died-this-week/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:00:05 +0000 I am Root http://www.unixster.com/2011/10/16/a-part-of-unix-died-this-week/ We at BSD News are especially remorseful at learning about the death of one of the fathers of UNIX. Dennis Ritchie passed away on October 8th. It is sufficient to say that without the contributions of Mr. Ritchie the world would be extremely different. Just about every major computer technology we take for granted today is a direct result of his work. You can read about his various works in the many obituaries as well as the Wikipedia page.

While many in the Linux world lament this loss it is some what different in the BSD camp. In plainer terms the loss of Ritchie is to those of us in the BSD world what the loss of Torvalds would be to Linux. However what you must bear in mind is that while BSD is a direct descendant of his work Linux if a tangent and merely a copy. Respectfully even Mac OS X is more inline with the work pioneered by Dennis Ritchie and is coworkers.

That being said think of all of the things that we would not have any of the modern technological conveniences that we enjoy today. There would be no iPods, cel phones, personal computers or even Microsoft Windows for that matter. All of these technologies depend upon the C programming language and many of them run a derivative of you guessed it UNIX.

The is a proposal on the the FreeBSD mailing list to dedicate the forthcoming 9.x release of the operating system in honor of Dennis Ritchie. I can honestly think of no better tribute that this considering all that his work has given us.

Perhaps if we receive enough positive commentary we can persuade the developers to follow through on this noble honor.

Please eave your support in the comment stream.

 

Thank you,

Mikel King

 printf(“goodbye, world\n”);

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The C standard library (libc) is one of the most important parts of a UNIX system as most programs interact with the kernel through interfaces written in C.  Porting code between platforms with similar libc implementations is trivial and if something is supported by libc, higher-level languages can use it without being reimplemented.

Over time, the C language has slowly evolved to modern multicore systems, but there are still some places that are problematic. One of these is localization as  C began originally had no localization support. FreeBSD libc and Darwin libc (used by Mac OS X) are similar, making it much easier to port code from OS X to FreeBSD than from OS X to Linux. The libc used by OS X supports a set of extended locale functions (xlocale) that allow locale to be set on a per-thread basis.

Additionally, libc++, from the LLVM project, was originally developed on Darwin, so it uses xlocale for most of the C++ locale support.  The lack of this support is the primary obstacle to porting it to FreeBSD.

Once xlocale is supported in FreeBSD libc, we can port libc++ to FreeBSD, giving us an MIT-licensed C++11 standard library implementation.  This, in conjunction with Clang and libcxxrt, means that the entire C++ stack in FreeBSD will be free of any GNU code.  This leaves the linker as the only significant obstacle to a GPL-free FreeBSD 10.

The project will conclude the end of September 2011.

The FreeBSD Foundation

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