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DragonFly BSD 4.4.3 Point Release Brings OpenSSL 1.0.1s, Intel Skylake Support

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 20th of April 2016 08:58:19 AM Filed under
BSD

Not a GNU/Linux operating system but DragonFly BSD is one of the most appreciated BSD distributions out there, so today we're informing you about the release of DragonFly BSD 4.4.3.

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LLVM/Clang and Google

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 18th of April 2016 01:18:38 PM Filed under
Development
Google
BSD
  • RFC: EfficiencySanitizer

    We plan to build a suite of compiler-based dynamic instrumentation tools for analyzing targeted performance problems. These tools will all live under a new "EfficiencySanitizer" (or "esan") sanitizer umbrella, as they will share significant portions of their implementations.

  • Google Is Working On An Efficiency Sanitizer To Improve Performance Problems

    Derek Bruening of Google has announced the company's interest in creating an "Efficiency Sanitizer" for LLVM/Clang for analyzing targeted performance problems.

    Worked on Google and other compoanies have been Address Sanitizer, Memory Sanitizer, Thread Sanitizer, Leak Sanitizer, Data Flow Sanitizer, and other sanitizers found in LLVM/Clang some of which have also been ported to GCC. These sanitizers have been incredibly helpful for developers in catching various problems within program code-bases, including many security issues. The latest focus being pursued by Google's compiler engineers is on an Efficiency Sanitizer.

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ubuntuBSD, the OS That Brings Ubuntu and FreeBSD Together, Now Has a Homepage

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 17th of April 2016 02:32:55 PM Filed under
BSD
Ubuntu

Jon Boden, the creator of the controversial ubuntuBSD project, an open-source and free operating system that brings Ubuntu and FreeBSD together, unveiled the distribution's official homepage.

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pfSense 2.3

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 12th of April 2016 10:08:31 PM Filed under
Security
BSD
  • pfSense 2.3-RELEASE Now Available!

    The most significant changes in this release are a rewrite of the webGUI utilizing Bootstrap, and the underlying system, including the base system and kernel, being converted entirely to FreeBSD pkg. The pkg conversion enables us to update pieces of the system individually going forward, rather than the monolithic updates of the past. The webGUI rewrite brings a new responsive look and feel to pfSense requiring a minimum of resizing or scrolling on a wide range of devices from desktop to mobile phones.

  • pfSense 2.3 Released With New Web UI

    BSD --
    PfSense 2.3 was released today as the newest version of this popular FreeBSD-based firewall/router OS appliance software.

    The pfSense 2.3 release has a rewritten web GUI that's now making use of Bootstrap to provide a clean and responsive experience. The pfSense 2.3 release also converts the underlying system now to completely using FreeBSD's pkg for package management, and there are various other underlying updates.

  • pfSense 2.3 BSD-Based Firewall Officially Released with Revamped webGUI, More

    Electric Sheep Fencing LLC., through Chris Buechler, today, April 12, 2016, has had the great pleasure of announcing the release of the stable pfSense 2.3 BSD-based firewall operating system.

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FreeBsd Vs OpenBsd

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 12th of April 2016 10:45:20 AM Filed under
BSD

There are a number of Unix-like operating systems based on or descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of Unix variants. The three most notable descendants in current use are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, which are all derived from 386BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite, by various routes. Both NetBSD and FreeBSD started life in 1993, initially derived from 386BSD, but in 1994 migrating to a 4.4BSD-Lite code base. OpenBSD was forked in 1995 from NetBSD. Other notable derivatives include DragonFly BSD, which was forked from FreeBSD 4.8, and Apple Inc.’s iOS and OS X, with its Darwin base including a large amount of code derived from FreeBSD.

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ubuntuBSD Is Looking to Become an Official Ubuntu Flavor

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 9th of April 2016 01:50:13 AM Filed under
BSD
Ubuntu

ubuntuBSD maintainer and lead developer Jon Boden is now looking for a way for his operating system to contribute to the Ubuntu community and, eventually, become an official Ubuntu flavor.

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FreeBSD/PC-BSD 10.3 vs. Linux Benchmarks

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 8th of April 2016 06:24:10 PM Filed under
BSD

With FreeBSD 10.3 having been released followed by the desktop-oriented PC-BSD 10.3 release that's running rather nicely, I decided to run some open-source performance benchmarks atop PC-BSD 10.3 x64 compared to various Linux distributions.

Originally I also aimed to run some PC-BSD vs. Linux gaming tests using the updated Linux binary compatibility layer in FreeBSD 10.3's kernel, but sadly, that didn't pan out. As noted in the aforelinked article, I've been running into a variety of issues that made my usual test candidates not run on PC-BSD 10.3 with either the x86 or x86_64 Linux binaries. If you want to see my old tests, there is FreeBSD: A Faster Platform For Linux Gaming Than Linux? from a few years ago.

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PC-BSD 10.3 Is Looking Great, Plus Trying The Linux Compatibility Layer

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 6th of April 2016 05:09:14 PM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks
BSD

Following this week's release of FreeBSD 10.3 has been the releases of the deskop-friendly PC-BSD 10.3 operating system along with PC-BSD's server-focused TrueOS 10.3 release. I've fired up PC-BSD 10.3 for some benchmarking and so far the experience has been going great.

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BSD and GNU

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 6th of April 2016 09:46:00 AM Filed under
GNU
BSD
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LLVM and FreeBSD

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 5th of April 2016 12:06:28 PM Filed under
BSD
  • LLVM's New LLD ELF Linker Continues To Mature For Linux Systems

    Last year LLVM developers made significant progress on developing a new ELF linker for Linux/Unix-like systems. Since then, this high-performance linker from LLD (dubbed "LLD") has continued maturing and gaining additional functionality.

  • FreeBSD 10.3 lands
  • FreeBSD 10.3 Officially Released With Much Better Linux Binary Compatibility

    FreeBSD 10.3 is now out in stable release form.

    FreeBSD 10.3 offers improvements to its UEFI boot loader support, support for high availability setups with the CAM Target Layout, much improved support to FreeBSD's Linux binary compatibility layer, support with the Linux compatibility layer for running 64-bit applications on x86_64, initial support for reroot support in the reboot utility, GNOME 3.16.2 is now packaged, and there are many other improvements.

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