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Het is weer zover na een aantal Beta’s is hij er dan weer en nieuwe release in de 5-serie. Helaas is de 5-serie nog niet voor productie servers‚ maar het komt wel steeds dichter in de buurt.
[quote]It is my great privilege and pleasure to announce the availability of
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. This release continues FreeBSD on the path of
advanced multiprocessor and application thread support and includes
many improved and widely-sought features:

– Experimental 1:1 and M:N thread libraries provide kernel support for
efficient application multithreading.
– Support for Physical Address Extensions enables Pentium Pro and
higher CPUs to access up to 64GB of RAM.
– Experimental Name Service Switch infrastructure allows enterprises
to seamlessly integrate with LDAP and Active Directory services.
– Enhanced “jail” management‚ allowing one server to provide many
different “virtual machines” with reduced administrator workload.
– New device drivers include support for IBM/Adaptec ServeRAID
controllers‚ expanded support for USB 2.0 and USB Ethernet adapters‚
and Promise Serial ATA controllers.
– Experimental support for the amd64 platform allows FreeBSD to run
on single processor AMD Opteron systems.

Although stability is greatly improved and many bugs have been fixed‚
FreeBSD 5.1 might not be suitable for all users. More conservative users
may prefer to continue using FreeBSD 4.X. Information on the various
trade-offs involved‚ as well as some notes on future plans for both
FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X‚ can be found in the Early Adopter’s Guide‚ available
here:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html

For a complete list of new features and known problems‚ please see the
release notes and errata list‚ available here:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.1R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.1R/errata.html

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities‚
please see:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/

This release is dedicated to the memory of Alan Eldridge. Alan was a
talented and dedicated member of the KDE On FreeBSD team and the FreeBSD
community‚ and his passing is mourned by all of us. For more information‚
please see http://freebsd.kde.org[me]moriam/alane.php[/me]
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[url=http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.1R/relnotes.html]Release notes[/url]
[url=http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.1R/errata.html]Errata[/url]

Jeremy Zawody de beheerder van alle MySQL servers van Yahoo komt met nieuwe resultaten van MySQL. Uit deze resultaten blijkt dat MySQL met Linuxthreads net zo snel loopt onder FreeBSD als onder Linux.
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MySQL now runs very well on FreeBSD. I’m no longer steering people
toward Linux. There are two important things you should do to make
the FreeBSD/MySQL combo work well: (1) build MySQL with LinuxThreads
rather than FreeBSD’s native threads, and (2) use MySQL 4.x or newer.
For more details, keep reading.

Is this guy more or less wrong in his explanations about threads ? (I
was said so)
As I know nothing about threads, but I noticed a similar behavior on
MacOSX, and MySQL performances are as bad on FreeBSD as on MacOSX,
compared to linux.

any explanation/confirmation/correction greatly appreciated.
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[url=http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000697.html]Link[/url]

Er is een nieuwe site die geheel gewijd is aan de firewall van OpenBSD PF.
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A new site has been started to build a sizable repository completely dedicated to OpenBSD PF and related tools (ALTQ‚ pfstat‚ pftop‚ etc.). The main goal is gathering pf.conf examples‚ with a focus on the most recent release of PF; there’s also older examples for reference. The most popular articles and tutorials are available as links as well. The pf-repository is designed to have condensed info in a textbrowser-friendly site.
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[url=https://solarflux.org/pf/]Link[/url]

Het FreeBSD Release enguneering team heeft de tweede beta van 5.1 upgeload.
[quote]
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 00:00:21 -0600
From: Scott Long
To: hubs@freebsd.org
Subject: 5.1-BETA2 ia32

Hubs,

5.1-BETA2 IA32 is on ftp-master, and 5.1-BETA has been removed. There
two are roughly the same size.

Scott
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Om Oracle 9i werkend te krijgen op FreeBSD 5 is nog niet zo eenvoudig‚ daarom heeft Roberto Nunnari hier een uitgebreid artikel over geschreven.
[quote]
I managed to run Oracle 9i on a FreeBSD 5.0-Release box.

The steps were as follows:
– install Oracle 9i on a Linux RedHat 7.2 box
– copy the whole thing on the FreeBSD box
– apply the kernel patches supplied by Georg.Koltermann@mscsoftware.com
– tune the kernel as stated in
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS…emu-oracle.html
but using the values specified by Oracle for 9i
– install the modified kernel
– run it!
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Je kunt het artikel [url=http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=3926b0b9a40d112d7edd630af9808877&threadid=7441]hier [/url] lezen

Julien Bordet heeft de NTFS code van NetBSD geport naar OpenBSD. Deze NTFS code ondersteunt NTFS4 en NTFS5. Zodat je netjes Windows partities kunt mounten.
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Hi all

As I was bored, and as I needed it (;-), I have ported code from NetBSD to
support NTFS4 and NTFS5 in -current.

http://www.greyhats.org/openbsd/openbsd.html#ntfs

I have heavily tested read accesses to my Windows 2000 partition, and that
worked fine.

Please note that write access is highly experimental (no file creation nor file
deletion, …).

I know Marcus Watt did it already 6 months ago, but this is a “new” port to
OpenBSD -current that moreover adds support for NTFS5.
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Stacy Olivas heeft PicoBSD .500 zo aangepast dat het geschikt is voor om WLAN’ s te auditten. Hij noemt deze nieuwe versie WarBSD‚ vergelijkbaar met WarLinux.
[quote]
WarBSD 0.1?

Yeah‚ it’s a little hack I did of PicoBSD .500 (using the FreeBSD
5.0-RELEASE-p7 source tree).

After seeing WarLinux and how it used an embedded version of Linux to get the
job done‚ I started wondering if PicoBSD could be used for the same thing.

It can. After a few hours of hacking I got it done. It wasn’t until recently
that I decided to make it public.

So‚ if you want to see my first attempt at dong something interesting with
FreeBSD surf on over to the temporary home of WarBSD at
http://digiflux.org/warbsd

There you will find some general information and the source tarball
that you can download and (if you have the FreeBSD source tree on
your system) you can build your own copy.

The system boots. I’ve got it using bsd-airtools for it’s
wireless sniffer.

I’m running into a problem with the wi network driver. The README
file tells you about it.

I’ve decided to release this in hopes that someone will find it
useful and maybe even point to way to getting it working right.

Let me know what you think. Send all comments‚ suggestion‚ flames‚ etc
to my address above.

Thanks

-Stacy[/quote]

Bron: [url=http://www.bsdforums.org]bsdforums.org[/url]

Nadat een groot debat over GTK en Qt via het web was begonnen ging John Knight een chat op irc aan met George Staikos over Qt en de toekomst van KDE en *nix desktops in het algemeen.

[url=http://www.linmagau.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=89]Lees meer[/url]

Bron: [url=http://www.webwereld.nl]WebWereld[/url]

Het Amstelveense bedrijf Diginext biedt sinds kort de mogelijkheid om de kwaliteit van hostingproviders te testen. Storingen worden per sms gemeld.
Het concept van [url=http://www.checkmyserver.com]Checkmyserver.com[/url]‚ de nieuwe site van Diginext‚ is niet nieuw. Wel nieuw is volgens Edsard Ravelli‚ operationeel directeur van Diginext‚ de mogelijkheid om bij elke keer dat de server down is‚ gealarmeerd te worden met een sms-berichtje.

[url=http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14927.phtml]Het hele artikel[/url]

Doug Barton van het FreeBSD Team zegt dat de “next generation version” geimporteerd uit NetBSD‚ aangepast en verbeterd‚ de plaats zal innemen van de boot scripts in “/etc”. Alle functionaliteit van het oude systeem zijn bewaard gebleven en de gebruikers kunnen nog steeds hun systeem configureren met de bekende methodes‚ rc.conf‚ rc.firewall‚ etc. Het rcNG systeem is de standaard in 5.0-RELEASE‚ and was al standaard sinds de FreeBSD-current van September 2002. Daarom worden er geen grote problemen verwacht bij de doorsnee gebruikers.

[quote]However‚ users who have
customized their rc scripts should be aware that the following files have
been removed from the base:

rc.atm
rc.devfs
rc.diskless1
rc.diskless2
rc.i386
rc.alpha
rc.amd64
rc.ia64
rc.sparc64
rc.isdn
rc.network
rc.network6
rc.pccard
rc.sendmail
rc.serial
rc.syscons
rc.sysctl

Your personal versions of these files will not be removed‚ so you can
continue to use them. However‚ you should take great care when updating‚
especially when using mergemaster‚ since the compatibility code that
utilizes these old scripts has also been removed.

For the vast majority of users who have not modified their rc scripts‚ the
new version of mergemaster has an option to move the old versions out of
/etc so that you can remove them completely at your convenience.

Users who would like to learn more about the new system should take a look
at the man page for rc.subr(8). If you have any problems‚ concerns‚ or
suggestions regarding the new system‚ please feel free to send an e-mail
to freebsd-current@freebsd.org and/or freebsd-rc@yahoogroups.com.

Please join me in congratulating the very hard working rcNG team on this
major accomplishment. I’d also like to extend my thanks to the other
committers who’ve contributed to the success of this project. A lot of
people have contributed code‚ ideas‚ and time to test patches. It’s
greatly appreciated.
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