In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss TrueOS & Lumina’s track to becoming less independent on Linux, IllumOS network stack, throttling password gropers, 64 bit inode call for testing, and more! Press play below to tune in:
BSD Now weekly content roundup: http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2017_04_26-i_know_64_and_a_bunch_more
Jupiter Broadcasting show notes: http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/114256/i-know-64-a-bunch-more-bsd-now-191/
The developers of TrueOS have made available the 4/24/17 STABLE update. To see a full list of changes, follow the link below. Download the ISO/IMG here. The developer of Lumina has announced a preview of lumina-mediaplayer which can be seen below.
After testing the UNSTABLE push over the weekend, the devs are happy to release a new STABLE update and installation files today! This update consists of two parts: installer changes for those who install TrueOS fresh, and general updates for systems with TrueOS already installed. To install TrueOS fresh, the latest (labeled 2017-4-21) .iso and .img files are available here.
General Updates
- Nvidia/graphics driver detection fixes.
- Boot environment listing fix (FreeBSD boot-loader only)
- Virtual box issues fixed on most systems. There appears to be a regression in VirtualBox 5.1 with some hardware.
- New icon themes for Lumina (Preferences -> Appearance -> Theme).
- We removed the legacy pc-diskmanager.
Official announcement: https://www.trueos.org/blog/trueos-stable-update-42417/
Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=TrueOS-STABLE-20170424
Phoronix discussion: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/bsd-mac-os-x-hurd-others/948125-trueos-20170424-stable-update
FreeNAS Corral development has been put to a stop, and the developers will be working to include its key features to FreeNAS 9.10. It should be noted that Corral should not be used in production. Please read the statement by Kris Moore at the FreeNAS forums.
FreeNAS Corral as it was originally released is being relegated to “TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW” status while we work hard to re-base its exciting new features upon the rock-solid FreeNAS 9.10 base.
As many of you diehard FreeNAS® users know, we released FreeNAS Corral on March 15th, and the initial Community response was largely positive. There was a lot of excitement around the updated UI and the VM/Docker support, especially. However, we’ve also seen nearly half of the initial users revert back to FreeNAS 9.10. User feedback about this drop-off has been clear: challenges upgrading from 9.10, general instability, lack of feature parity with 9.10 (Jails, iSCSI, etc), and some users experiencing lower performance than expected given the increased demands FreeNAS Corral has on system hardware resources. With the subsequent departure of the FreeNAS Corral project lead, we re-examined the features, benefits, and issues with Corral and have decided to revise our plan for its future.
Important announcement regarding FreeNAS Corral: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/important-announcement-regarding-freenas-corral.53502/
Related: http://www.marksei.com/freenas-corral-development-halted-next-release-based-9-10/
This tutorial by user Developers Log will show you how to set up TrueOS, an open-source desktop operating system based on FreeBSD. Follow the link below for a step-by-step guide of the installation process.
Why TrueOS?
TrueOS is a FreeBSD based desktop-oriented operating system. While the BSD family of operating systems is a quite popular choice for server machines, it is more rarely used as a desktop machine.
Maybe because of its server oriented nature, FreeBSD has a slightly more stepped learning curve than other Unix based operating systems. While the Linux family has produced literally hundreds of distros catering to the whole spectrum of users, from the more technically orientally ones, to those that “just want a system that works”, FreeBSD remains, still, an operating system for tech savvy users.
STH: Jordan, would you mind giving STH readers a quick background about yourself?
Jordan: Sure, I’ve been a software developer since the late 1970’s and got into Open Source back in the days of USENET, when we would furtively post our code to comp.sources.unix and ask for forgiveness rather than permission most of the time. Since Open Source became legitimate and moved out of the shadows, I have been involved in a number of open source projects, from FreeBSD to Darwin (at Apple) and now FreeNAS, as the CTO of iXsystems. I also went to the dark side (engineering management) about 15 years ago, so I do far less coding than managing these days, but what can you do.
FreeNAS Corral – A Tipping Point for the Popular NAS OS – Our Interview with Jordan Hubbard
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Check out this tutorial from Vivek Gite on how to use jails on FreeNAS Corral. Jails was a feature in FreeNAS 9.10 and was replaced with Containers in Corral. Follow the link below for the full set of instructions.
I recently installed or upgraded to FreeNAS Corral (version 10). However, I noticed that there is no support for FreeBSD jails as of 26/March/2017. How do I install and configure traditional FreeBSD jails on FreeNAS Corral (version 10)?
FreeNAS Corral now supports Docker containers for doing all of its “application hosting” and existing jails/plugins data will simply continue to live in the jails/dataset in the ZFS volume but will be inactive, since jails are no longer used in Corral. This tutorial shows you how to create and configure FreeBSD jail on FreeNAS Corral 10 from command line.
Full tutorial: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-and-configure-jails-on-freenas-corral-10/
This article by user osemotions details a FreeBSD 11 desktop installation, as a Linux user steering the wheel. Read about their trial using FreeBSD below, in addition to trying out TrueOS.
A Penguin tries FreeBSD 11.0 RELEASE on an old i386 PC as his main desktop operating system, for the first time, for a weekend.
The story begins, you guess, with the operating system installation using the FreeBSD i386 hybrid image in order to boot a USB key.
Installation
Installation went without problems and everything flowed as I expected. For a user who lives in the world of Debianized Penguins, being able to install the superb ZFS filesystem is somewhat interesting at least.
A Penguin tries out FreeBSD 11 as a desktop operating system: http://www.osemotions.com/a-penguin-tries-freebsd-as-a-desktop-operating-system/
A Penguin tries out TrueOS: http://www.osemotions.com/a-penguin-tries-out-trueos-formerly-pc-bsd/
It has arrived. iXsystems released FreeNAS Corral, the new name and brand for FreeNAS 10. FreeNAS Corral extends the capabilities of FreeNAS’ enterprise-grade storage by adding virtual machine and Docker container management. Along with these expansions, FreeNAS Corral brings even more to the table. Follow the link below to learn about all the new enhancements that come with FreeNAS Corral.
FreeNAS Corral, the latest version of FreeNAS, combines sophisticated storage, virtualization, containers, and GUI management in a brand new interface
iXsystems, the industry leader in storage and servers driven by Open Source, today released FreeNAS 10 and unveiled the FreeNAS Corral brand. With FreeNAS Corral (formerly FreeNAS 10), iXsystems introduces the next generation of the world’s most popular Open Source software-defined storage software. FreeNAS Corral extends FreeNAS’ enterprise-grade storage capabilities by adding virtual machine and Docker container management. FreeNAS Corral enables the integration of software-defined storage into VMs and provides persistent storage for Docker containers. These enhancements are provided through a re-designed graphical user interface (GUI) and a powerful command line interface (CLI), making FreeNAS both easier to use and more capable than ever. The new Corral name represents what this release does best: corralling data, virtual machines, containers, and storage services under one management interface.
Original article: https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/ixsystems-launches-freenas-corral-open-source-solution-building-hyper-converged-infrastructures/
The developers of TrueOS have made available STABLE version 2017-02-22. You can download the new ISO here or use the update feature within the OS. See the link below for the full release notes.
A new update for TrueOS-STABLE is available as of 2/22/17 (apologies for the late announcement). This update brings in a number of bugfixes and functionality improvements, along with a few “big-ticket” items.
Other Updates:
- Qt version updated from 5.6.2 to 5.7.1
- Multiple minor package updates
- New about tool improvements (Thanks Graham Perrin!)
- The entire package repository is synced with FreeBSD as of Feb 19, 2017.
- The new Automounting feature is available!
- The pc-mounttray utility has been retired in favor of the new devd-based automounter and autofs.
- New Jail utilities are available.
Official announcement: https://www.trueos.org/blog/trueos-stable-update-released-22217/
The folks at The Mac Observer interview Jordan Hubbard regarding his time as a founder of FreeBSD, heading Apple’s UNIX team, and his many contributions to open source. Check out the link below to listen to the podcast.
Jordan Hubbard, the co-founder of FreeBSD, spent a dozen years at Apple bringing coherence to the UNIX core of Mac OS X. Apple calls it macOS today, but in the early years, there were lots of rough spots integrating the partly FreeBSD core into a viable consumer Mac OS X. Jordan was also instrumental in modernizing Mac OS X with features like MacPorts, Launchd, Grand Central Dispatch and application sandboxing. Today, his work complete at Apple, Jordan is an open source developer. We talked about the early development of Mac OS X derived from NeXT and even the earliest BSD origins. Along the way, we also chatted about Jordan’s childhood memories as an 8-year old being an electronics geek with Radio Shack as his Mecca. If you love macOS, don’t miss this insightful historical tour.
TMO Background Mode: Interview with Open Source Developer & Former Apple Manager Jordan Hubbard