An RNG that runs in your brain, Going Stateless, SmolBSD, The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining, Wayland, where are we in 2024?, Omnios pxe booting, OpenBSD scripts to convert wg-quick VPN files, and more.
During his talk at the FreeBSD Vendor Summit in November 2023, Andrew Wafaa senior engineer at Arm Holdings, emphasized the importance of FreeBSD in Arm’s strategic vision. He explained how Arm is leading the way in shaping the future of computing through diverse software support and innovation. As Arm expands its reach into new technology domains, it is important to understand FreeBSD’s role in this journey to gain insights into broader industry trends.
Python was updated to version 3.11 along with the usual reliability patches in the core, plugins and third party software.
The FreeBSD Foundation is actively investing in enhancing FreeBSD’s driver capabilities in important areas identified by the community. Users have emphasized that top priorities should include better wireless support for increased stability, faster speeds, and support for the latest wireless chipsets. In this post, you’ll learn about some of the recent work towards meeting these objectives. The iwlwifi package is a driver that enables support for Intel Wi-Fi chipsets on FreeBSD, based on the Intel source code of the Linux driver module with the same name. In November 2023, Cheng Cui began a six-month contract to work with long-term Foundation contractor Björn Zeeb to improve the driver.
NetBSD Foundation has announced new development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems.
Following last week's release of FreeBSD 14.1 Beta 1, this weekend brought the second beta candidate right on time. FreeBSD 14.1 continues working toward release in mid-June as this point release of the FreeBSD operating system to succeed last November's FreeBSD 14.0. FreeBSD 14.1 is bringing fixes back-ported from FreeBSD 15 development along with other changes like the date program now supporting nanoseconds, updated OpenSSH and other application updates, various device driver updates, and more.
NetBSD 9.4, FreeBSD SSDF Attestation to Support Cybersecurity Compliance, The Lost Worlds of Telnet, alter file ownership and permissions with a feedback information, parallel raw IP input, OpenBSD routers on AliExpress mini PCs, FreeBSD for Devs. Plus a special interview with the organizers of BSDCAN 2024.
Errata patch for libcrypto has been released for OpenBSD 7.5. Binary updates for the amd64, arm64 and i386 platform are available via the syspatch utility.
The focus of the issue revolves around development, be it the evolution of FreeBSD itself or leveraging FreeBSD as a platform for crafting other software. The issue includes a practical guide to FreeBSD kernel development, an exploration of KDE’s CI system that spotlights how the KDE project tests changes on FreeBSD, a look into kernel debugging support in LLVM’s debugger (lldb), and more.
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 8.3, the third and final release from the NetBSD 8 stable branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons since the release of NetBSD 8.2 in March 2020, as well as some enhancements backported from the development branch. It is fully compatible with NetBSD 8.0. This also represents the end-of-life for the netbsd-8 release branch. No further security updates will happen. Users running 8.2 or an earlier release are strongly recommended to upgrade to a newer branch, preferably the recent NetBSD 10.0 release. Pkgsrc has already desupported the netbsd-8 branch.
Author wants to run GoToSocial on some *BSD system and they went for using NetBSD 10.0 . And because their hypervisor is running bhyve on OmniOS , you get the title of this blog post.
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems.