In this episode, hosts Benedict & Allan discuss how Netflix serves 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance, recap FreeBSD Q2 status report, show us a freebsd-update speedup via nginx reverse proxy, and customise OpenBSD default shell. Press play below to tune in:
Jupiter Broadcasting show notes: http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/119016/turning-freebsd-up-to-100-gbps-bsd-now-215/
of Project-FiFo has released version 0.9.3, which has more stable support for FreeBSD via vmadm. Project-FiFo is an open-source cloud management / orchestration system designed for SmartOS. See the link(s) below for more information. 
Since its inception, Project-Fifo has run exclusively on Illumos based operating systems. At first Smartos, and later OmniOS and Oracle Solaris. Today we are happy to announce the immediate availability of release 0.9.3 and with it FreeBSD support.
FreeBSD and Illumos have always seemed to be good friends rather than competitors in the operating system landscape. Not only do you rarely hear something bad said about the other from the communities, but there is a healthy level of respect and cross-pollination going on. BSD Jails inspired Zones; Crossbow inspired VNet, there is now DTrace, kstat and ZFS on BSD, and bhyve on SmartOS.
The developers of pfSense have made available version 2.4.0-RELEASE! Notable changes are FreeBSD 11.1 as the base operating system, new pfSense installer with ZFS/UEFI + others support, support for Netgate ARM devices (SG-1000), support for OpenVPN 2.4.X, GUI support for 13 different languages, and more. For a detailed list of changes, see the link below. You can download the latest ISO/image files here. 
We are excited to announce the release of pfSense® software version 2.4, now available for new installations and upgrades!
pfSense software version 2.4.0 was a herculean effort! It is the culmination of 18 months of hard work by Netgate and community contributors, with over 290 items resolved. According to git, 671 files were changed with a total 1651680 lines added, and 185727 lines deleted. Most of those added lines are from translated strings for multiple language support!
pfSense 2.4.0-RELEASE updates and installation images are available now!
Original announcement: https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-2-4-0-release-now-available.html
pfSense 2.4-Release Milestone for the Popular Firewall Platform
Fosdem, also known as Free and Software Developers’ European Meeting, is calling for BSD devroom speakers and papers for the annual conference held in Brussels, Belgium. The deadline is Sunday, 26th of November, 2017. Head on over to the link below for full submission details.
Submission deadline : Sunday 26 November 2017
Submit a talk
Visit the Fosdem 2018 Pentabarf website (see account creation bellow)
Create an “event” and click on “Show all” in the top right corner to display the full form.
Your submission must include the following information
- The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~500 from other projects)
- select “BSD devroom” as the track.
- A short abstract of one paragraph
- A longer description if you wish to do so
- Links to related websites / blogs etc.
Fosdem 2018 BSD devroom call for participation: https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fosdem18/
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Alan & Benedict discuss the costs of open sourcing a project, discover the reason behind slow PS4 downloads, and dive into the history of UNIX man pages. Click play below to tune in:
BSD Now weekly content roundup: http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2017_10_04-the_history_of_man_kind
Jupiter Broadcasting show notes: http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/118811/the-history-of-man-kind-bsd-now-214/
User Matei Cezar presents us with a comprehensive list of 15 useful Sockstat commands, on finding open ports in FreeBSD. See the link below for the full set of instructions
Sockstat is a versatile command line utility used for displaying network and system opened sockets in FreeBSD. Mainly, sockstat command is installed by default in FreeBSD and it’s commonly used for displaying the name of the processes who opened a certain network port on a FreeBSD system.
However, sockstat can also list open sockets based on protocol version (both IP versions), on the state of the connection and on what ports a daemon or a program binds and listens on.
In this guide we’ll list some common utilization examples, but also very powerful, of sockstat command line networking utility in FreeBSD.
15 Useful ‘Sockstat Command Examples’ to Find Open Ports in FreeBSD
For those who are looking to try out TrueOS, an open-source operating system based on FreeBSD, you may try out a pre-made virtual machine from OSBoxes. If you like what you see, head on over to TrueOS.org to get started with the ISO setup. The VMs are made for VirtualBox and VMware.
The developers of Apple have made available the latest open source kernel of iOS and macOS. Also, the ARM version of the kernel is available for the first time. Check out the announcement by TechCrunch below. The GitHub repository can also be found below, as well as a long discussion by reddit users.
Apple has always shared the kernel of macOS after each major release. This kernel also runs on iOS devices as both macOS and iOS are built on the same foundation. This year, Apple also shared the most recent version of the kernel on GitHub. And you can also find ARM versions of the kernel for the first time.
But first, it’s time for some computer history. The first version of macOS (originally named Mac OS X) came out in 2001. It was built on top of NeXTSTEP, an operating system developed by NeXT. Steve Jobs founded NeXT in 1985 and sold the company back to Apple in 1997. And Apple decided to use NeXTSTEP as the foundation for Mac OS X.
Apple open-sourced the kernel of iOS and macOS for ARM processors
What is XNU?
XNU kernel is part of the Darwin operating system for use in OS X and iOS operating systems. XNU is an acronym for XNU is Not Unix. XNU is a hybrid kernel combining the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University with components from FreeBSD and C++ API for writing drivers called IOKit. XNU runs on I386, X86_64 for both single processor and multi-processor configurations.
Github repository: https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu
Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that FreeBSD 12 will support ZFS Channel Programs, which allows for Lua scripts to executive administrative tasks. See their blog and discussion links below.
ZCP allows small Lua scripts to be executed for carrying out administrative tasks on the ZFS file-system for tasks like dropping old snapshots and other maintenance. The FreeBSD implementation does execute these commands in a sandboxed environment and enforces memory/time limits to fend off potential rogue Lua scripts.
Original post: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-FreeBSD-ZCP
ZFS channel program (ZCP) is a small script written in a domain specific language that manipulate ZFS internals in a single, atomically-visible operation. For instance, to delete all snapshots of a filesystem a ZCP could be written which 1) generates the list of snapshots, 2) traverses that list, and 3) destroys each snapshot unconditionally.
OpenZFS page: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Projects/ZFS_Channel_Programs
Other: Phoronix discussion | FreeBSD Has A New ZFS Boot Management Tool & Library
Check out this lengthy discussion on /r/FreeBSD about current hardware for support for FreeBSD. In addition, another thread discusses the current state of gaming on FreeBSD.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/hardware.html
There you go. :)
Yes, basically all amd64 procs are supported.
Ryzen also works very nicely as well. Really not notably different from a OS standpoint than previous ones.
Working on it :)
12-CURRENT with drm-next-kmod supports modern Intel and AMD Radeon GPUs, and nVidia provides their official proprietary driver.
Check out my ports fork — it already includes Mesa 17.2.1 with Vulkan drivers (for Radeon mostly), the Vulkan loader, vkQuake, fixed OpenMW, VCMI, Dolphin from git master, and more. (Most of this stuff will eventually end up in upstream ports…)
So you can play Wii/GameCube games in Dolphin (with Vulkan), PS3 games in RPCS3 (also with Vulkan), 3DS games in Citra, PSP games in PPSSPP… also Linux games with the Linux compatibility layer (“Linuxulator”), Windows games in Wine, WebGL games in Firefox or Chromium.
However, there’s no WoW64 Wine (both 32 and 64 bit app support) in ports/pkg yet — you have to build that manually. Linuxulator doesn’t run current Steam yet (doesn’t connect to the server because some socket option isn’t implemented)…
