The second release candidate build for the FreeBSD-8.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
New committer: Guido Falsi (ports)
FreeBSD 8.3-RC2 Available
New committer: Cherry G. Mathew (src)
New committer: Benjamin Kaduk (doc/www)
FreeBSD 8.3-RC1 Available
The second test build for the FreeBSD-8.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
AMD Confirms CPU Bug Found By DragonFly BSD’s Matt Dillon
An anonymous reader writes “Matt Dillon of DragonFly BSD just announced that AMD confirmed a CPU bug he found. Matt quotes part of the mail exchange and it looks like ‘consecutive back-to-back pops and (near) return instructions can create a condition where the processor incorrectly updates the stack pointer.’ The specific manifestations in DragonFly were random segmentation faults under heavy load.”
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New committer: Alex Kozlov (ports)
MINIX 3.2 Released With Some Major Changes
An anonymous reader writes “MINIX 3.2.0 was released today (alternative announcement). Lots of code has been pulled in from NetBSD, replacing libc, much of the userspace and the bootloader. This should allow much more software to be ported easily (using the pkgsrc infrastructure which was previously adopted) while retaining the microkernel architecture. Also Clang is now used as a default compiler and ELF as the default binary format, which should allow MINIX to be ported to other architectures in the near future (in fact, they are currently looking to hire someone with embedded systems experience to port MINIX to ARM). A live CD is available.”
The big highlight is the new NetBSD based userland — it replaces the incredibly old fashioned and limited Minix userland. There’s even experimental SMP support. Topping it all off, the project switched over to git which would make getting involved in development a bit easier for the casual hacker.
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DragonFly BSD 3.0 Released
An anonymous reader writes with word of the release earlier this week, after eight months of development, of DragonFly BSD 3.0. The release includes improved scalability through finer-grained locking, improvements to the HAMMER file system in low-memory configurations, and a TrueCrypt-compatible disk encryption system. DragonFly is an installable system, but it can also be run live from CD, DVD, or USB key.
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