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FreeBSD 10.4-BETA4 Now Available
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BSD: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and LLVM Clang
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 9th of September 2017 08:47:43 PM Filed under
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FreeBSD Has A New ZFS Boot Management Tool & Library
One of the interesting Google Summer of Code projects within the BSD realm this summer was working on a new boot management tool and library for ZFS on FreeBSD. It's still in the works, but progress is being made.
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LLVM Clang Begins Working On CUDA 9.0 Support
A Google developer has begun work on extending LLVM Clang's CUDA support to cover CUDA 9.
CUDA 9 is currently in release candidate stage and focuses on next-gen Volta GPU support, library optimizations, and more.
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BSD: LLVM 5.0.0, Android NDK, FreeBSD/TrueOS
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 7th of September 2017 11:40:42 PM Filed under

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LLVM 5.0.0 Release
This release is the result of the community's work over the past six months, including: C++17 support, co-routines, improved optimizations, new compiler warnings, many bug fixes, and more.
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LLVM 5.0 Released With C++17 Support, Ryzen Scheduler, AMDGPU Vega & Much More
After delays pushed its release back by about one month, LLVM 5.0 was just released a few minutes ago along with its associated sub-projects like the Clang 5.0 C/C++ compiler.
LLVM 5.0 features a number of improvements to the ARM and MIPS targets, greater support for the POWER ISA 3.0 in the PowerPC target, the initial AMD Ryzen (znver1) scheduler support (already improved in LLVM 6.0 SVN), support for Intel Goldmont CPUs, greater AVX-512 support, improved Silvermont/Sandybridge/Jaguar schedulers, and initial Radeon Vega (GFX9) support within the AMDGPU target.
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Android NDK r16: Developers Should Start Using LLVM's libc++ With GCC On The Way Out
Google has announced the availability today of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) Release 16. This release is worth mentioning in that Google is now encouraging developers to start using libc++ as their C++ standard library.
Moving forward, Google will only be supporting LLVM's libc++ as the C++ standard library and not supporting other STLs. The Android platform has already been using libc++ since Lollipop and now they are looking to get more application developers using this STL.
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Google publishes its documentation style guide for developers
Documentation is often an afterthought — especially for open-source projects. That can make it harder for newcomers to join a project, for example, and sometimes badly written documentation is worse than having no documentation at all. To help developers write better documentation, Google this week opened up its own developer-documentation style guide.
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Trying Out FreeBSD/TrueOS On The Xeon Scalable + Tyan GT24E-B7106 Platform
While we have tested a number of Linux distributions on Intel's new Xeon Scalable platform, here are some initial BSD tests using two Xeon Gold 6138 processors with the Tyan GT24E-B7106 1U barebones server.
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FreeBSD Developers Tackle AMD Zen/Ryzen Temperature Monitoring Before Linux
While Linux users of AMD's new Zen-based Ryzen/Threadripper/Epyc processors are still waiting for thermal driver support to hit the mainline Linux kernel, FreeBSD developers have already managed to produce the Zen "Family 17h" CPU thermal monitoring support on their own.
From this FreeBSD bug report, developers have managed to get the AMD CPU temperature monitoring working for Zen processors under Linux with their existing temperature driver.
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FreeBSD 10.4-BETA3 Now Available
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 3rd of September 2017 03:31:41 AM Filed under
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BSD: FreeBSD in China, Update From OpenBSD
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 2nd of September 2017 07:22:51 PM Filed under
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Trip Report: FreeBSD in China at COPU and LinuxCon
In May of 2017, we were invited to give a talk about FreeBSD at COPU’s (China Open Source Promotional Unit) Open Source China, Open Source World Summit, which took place June 21-22, in Beijing. This was a tremendous opportunity to talk about the advantages of FreeBSD to the open source leaders and organizations interested in open source. I was honored to represent the Project and Foundation and give the presentation “FreeBSD Advantages and Applications”.
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A return-oriented programming defense from OpenBSD
Stack-smashing attacks have a long history; they featured, for example, as a core part of the Morris worm back in 1988. Restrictions on executing code on the stack have, to a great extent, put an end to such simple attacks, but that does not mean that stack-smashing attacks are no longer a threat. Return-oriented programming (ROP) has become a common technique for compromising systems via a stack-smashing vulnerability. There are various schemes out there for defeating ROP attacks, but a mechanism called "RETGUARD" that is being implemented in OpenBSD is notable for its relative simplicity.
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BSD: TrueOS, DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 1st of September 2017 09:18:50 AM Filed under
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Trying Out AMD's Ryzen Threadripper On TrueOS, DragonFlyBSD
Following the AMD Threadripper Linux tests of this week today I finally had a chance to try out some of the BSDs with this 16 core / 32 thread system.
With the AMD Threadripper 1950X with Gigabyte X399 AORUS Gaming 7 is how I was running these tests. Initial targets were with TrueOS (formerly known as PC-BSD, the desktop-oriented branch of FreeBSD) and DragonFlyBSD.
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August 2017 Development Projects Update
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My first patch to OpenBSD
I followed Preparing a diff and Making your first patch (OpenBSD) to submit my first OpenBSD patch. Guess what? just few hours later, dmesg source file was changed base on my code. Although the final modification is not my code, it is still a great pleasure that I contribute my own effort to help make OpenBSD better!
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GhostBSD 11.1 BETA1 is ready!
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of August 2017 10:57:15 PM Filed under
This first beta of the development of GhostBSD 11.1 release is ready for testing. All MATE and XFCE image is available with i386 and amd64 architectures. We hope to see a lot of people helping to test this next release.
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BSD: HAMMER2 in DragonFlyBSD, OpenBSD Funds
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 29th of August 2017 12:45:18 PM Filed under
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HAMMER2 File-System Continues To Stabilize For DragonFlyBSD
For those interested in the work being done to the HAMMER2 file-system that's being developed by Matthew Dillon for DragonFlyBSD, it is indeed getting closer to being a working reality.
We recently heard how the next DragonFlyBSD release will offer it as an experimental option following recent advancements to it. That next DragonFly release should be coming in September.
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OpenBSD Community Goes Platinum [iophk: "paypal is not an option, I'll have to send some bitcoin their way"]
Paypal and bitcoin donations from the OpenBSD community have made the community the OpenBSD Foundation's first Platinum level contributor for 2017!
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openbsd changes of note 627
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FreeBSD: 10 Things to Do After Fresh Installation of FreeBSD, Second FreeBSD 10.4-Beta Available
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 26th of August 2017 07:54:48 PM Filed under
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10 Things to Do After Fresh Installation of FreeBSD
This tutorial will cover some initial configurations you need to perform on a fresh installed FreeBSD operating system and some basics on how to manage FreeBSD from command line.
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FreeBSD 10.4-BETA2 Now Available
The second BETA build of the 10.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available.
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Lumina desktop – Show me the light
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 26th of August 2017 10:00:21 AM Filed under

The good thing about Qt (as a framework and technology) is that it powers so many interesting products seamlessly, quietly, unassumingly. The bad thing is, sometimes you may use something that has Qt DNA, and yet, you wouldn’t know it unless explicitly told. Such is the case with the Lumina desktop.
This less-known desktop environment powers mostly BSD operating systems, but it does not seem to have caught on in the Linux world that much. At the moment, you are most likely to find it gracing TrueOS, which uses it as its default interface. And yet, with modern architecture under the hood, it could be a suitable alternative to other mainstream desktop environments. Let’s see what gives.
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