Ken Moore, developer of Lumina, has released version 1.2 for the lightweight desktop environment packaged with TrueOS. This release features new plugin, custom themes such as Windows / OSX / MATE type desktops, a removal of libLuminaUtils, and more. See below for the full release notes.
Related links
Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lumina-1.2-Released
Lumina on Ubuntu: http://www.noobslab.com/2017/01/lumina-desktop-can-be-installed-on-your.html
The developers of OPNsense have released their BETA of version 17.1. OPNsense is an open source firewall based on FreeBSD and is also forked from pfSense. Follow the link below to try out their latest BETA release.
Dear friends and followers,
With the best wishes for the holiday season attached we hereby humbly present our 17.1-BETA images and thank everyone for their early input, valid questions and generally keeping us on our toes throughout the past months. The next major release features FreeBSD 11.0, the SSH remote installer, new languages Italian and Czech, state-of-the-art HardenedBSD security features, PHP 7.0, native PAM authentication against e.g. 2FA (TOTP), as well a rewritten Nano-style card images that adapt to the media size to name only a few.
These will be the only beta images. They are not suitable for production environments. Release candidate builds will start in January in order to provide production-ready images. Checksums can be found below this announcement. Direct download links from our capable mirror providers are as follows:
This is a lengthy discussion from Hacker News, derived from a tutorial by user on how to get FreeBSD set up on a MacBook Pro.
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Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13027506
Since 2008 or 2009 I work on Apple hardware and OS: back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001), and switched to something that Just Works. Six years later, it less and less Just Works, started turning into spyware and nagware, and doesn’t need much less maintenance than Linux desktop — at least for my work, which is system administration and software development, probably it is better for the mythical End User person. Work needed to get software I need running is not less obscure than work I’d need to do on Linux or othe Unix-like system. I am finding myself turning away from GUI programs that I used to appreciate, and most of the time I use OSX to just run a terminal, Firefox, and Emacs. GUI that used to be nice and unintrusive, got annoying. Either I came full circle in the last 15 years of my computer usage, or the OSX experience degraded in last 5 years. Again, this is from a sysadmin/developer kind of power user perspective; power user, whose definition of “fun” includes spending 6 hours in the middle of the night figuring how to get dual boot working with UEFI.
Original tutorial: https://gist.github.com/mpasternacki/974e29d1e3865e940c53
The developers of Apple have released the Darwin source code for macOS 10.12 Sierra. Darwin comprises of the kernel, BSD portions, drivers, and developer tools. The source code can be found at the links provided.
The lowest layers of macOS, including the kernel, BSD portions, and drivers are based mainly on open source technologies, collectively called Darwin. As such, Apple provides download links to the latest versions of these technologies for the open source community to learn and to use.
Source code: https://opensource.apple.com/release/os-x-1012.html
Original post: https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/24/apple-releases-macos-10-12-sierra-open-source-darwin-code/
Jordan Hubbard has announced the 2nd BETA release of FreeNAS 10. This version adds more features to the previously released BETA, adding support for virtual machine web-based console and GUI, initial setup wizard, asynchronous tasks, on top of the revamped graphic user interface and streamlined settings. See the link below to download and read the full list of changes.
The FreeNAS development team is happy to announce the release of FreeNAS 10 BETA 2. We are also very happy to say that we are now “feature complete” and have feature-parity with FreeNAS 9.10. Anyone who’s been following the FreeNAS 10 development effort knows that FreeNAS 10 represents a complete rewrite of the world’s most popular software-defined storage OS. It adds significant capabilities not seen in Open Source storage: new capabilities for hosting virtual machines and containerized applications, and a ground-up rewrite of the user interface with a scriptable command-line interface.
This post will explain what’s new in FreeNAS 10 BETA 2. If you’re entirely new to FreeNAS 10, don’t worry. You can still jump on board with the aid of these resources:
http://www.freenas.org/download – This is our download site for FreeNAS and has links to the latest 10 Nightly build.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?forums/10-testing.54/ – This is the FreeNAS 10 testing forum. We have active discussions and explanations for all things FreeNAS 10 there every day, and anyone is free to register and join in.
https://github.com/freenas – This is the FreeNAS project on GitHub, for both FreeNAS 9 and FreeNAS 10.
Official announcement:
http://www.freenas.org/blog/start-holidays-off-freenas-10-beta-2/
Other links:
This tutorial by user Systems Engineer shows us how to set up FreeNAS 9.10 in a virtual environment on VMware Workstation or VMware Player. FreeNAS is a storage operating system based on FreeBSD. Testing out the network-attached storage software in a VM may be useful for those who’d like to try it out before installing on bare-metal or actual hardware. Follow the link below for further details, and watch the tutorial video below to begin installing:
This tutorial shows how to install, configure and review FreeNAS 9.10 Storage on VMware Workstation/Player step by step. We also configure RAID-5 Storage Volume and setup NFS and Samba/SMB/CIFS shares. This tutorial is also helpful to installing FreeNAS 9.10 on physical computer hardware or bare-metal server.
Original post: https://linux-video-tutorials.blogspot.com/2016/11/install-configure-freenas-9-10-storage-vmware.html
iXsystems Inc. has announced the launch of TrueOS, a desktop FreeBSD based operating system that evolved from the PC-BSD name. Notable features are its rolling release updates, Lumina Desktop Environment, and more features such as TrueOS Pico coming soon. Head on over to TrueOS.org to download the latest release.
Features include rolling release distribution, ZFS boot environments, and SysAdm administration suite for a reliable desktop experience
SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired – November 10, 2016) – iXsystems announced today the launch of TrueOS®, the next evolution of PC-BSD. TrueOS is a modern, cutting-edge distribution of FreeBSD, combining the convenience and features of a rolling release distribution with the failsafe technology of ZFS boot environments.
TrueOS tracks the FreeBSD “Current” branch and merges features from select developer branches to improve support for newer hardware and technologies. Weekly automatic updates keep the user’s system up-to-date, and all updates are performed safely within system snapshots known as boot environments.
Original announcement: https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/ixsystems-announces-trueos-launch/
Related link: DistroWatch – TrueOS Review by Jesse Smith
Check out these two tutorial videos for FreeNAS 9.10. The first video, from the FreeNASTeam, will show you how to get link aggregation and virtual LAN set up on FreeNAS. The second video, from user m0nkey_, will show you how to get a virtual machine setup via iohyve — a FreeBSD bhyve manager using ZFS.
The developers of pfSense made available version 2.3.2-p1 RELEASE. Notable changes are updates to PHP, libidn, curl, libxml2, OpenSSL vulnerability fixes, HyperV, and many more. See the full release notes in the link below, and download the ISO/image files here.
We are happy to announce the release of pfSense® software version 2.3.2-p1!This is a maintenance release in the 2.3.x series, bringing a number of bug fixes. The full list of changes is on the 2.3.2-p1 New Features and Changes page.
This release includes fixes for 34 bugs and 2 feature items completed.
If you haven’t yet caught up on the changes in 2.3.x, check out the Features and Highlights video. Past blog posts have covered some of the changes, such as the performance improvements from tryforward, and the webGUI update.
Read the full release notes: https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=2122
Related links:
pfSense docs – 2.3.2-p1 New Features and Changes
Softpedia – First pfSense 2.3.2 Update Adds OpenSSL Security Fixes to the BSD-Based Firewall
Michael Larabel of Phoronix performed several benchmark tests between the latest FreeBSD (note that it is not the official 11.0-RELEASE), Ubuntu, and macOS Sierra operating systems on the MacBook Air. The tests performed range from SQLite, OpenMP, to the LLVM Clang compiler. See the link below for the detailed results.
Yesterday I published some macOS 10.2 vs. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS benchmarks from a Mac Mini and MacBook Air systems. For those curious if BSDs can outperform macOS Sierra on Apple hardware, I tested the MacBook Air with FreeBSD 11.0 compared to the Linux and macOS results on that Core i5 system. Here are those results.
FreeBSD 11.0 AMD64 was tested on the Haswell-based MacBook Air and it actually worked well. Even the HD Graphics 5000 were playing nicely with the FreeBSD DRM Intel driver. The MacBook Air is equipped with a Core i5 4250U CPU with HD Graphics 5000, 4GB of DDR3 memory, and a 120GB Apple SSD. The install was smooth and was off to the races with testing.
Read about the benchmark results: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?item=freebsd-ubuntu-sierra&num=1&page=article
Related links:
Phoronix discussion – FreeBSD 11.0 Comes Up Short In Ubuntu 16.04 vs. macOS Sierra Benchmarks
Phoronix September 2016 Recap – Vim 8.0, macOS Sierra, Libreboot, & GCC Were Popular In September
Phoronix – FreeBSD 11 Is Still Being Respun & Tested, Hope To Release Next Week
ELI5 – What are the differences between LINUX and BSD? from linux4noobs
> Six years later, it less and less “Just Works”, started turning into spyware and nagware, and doesn’t need much less maintenance than Linux desktop — at least for my work, which is system administration and software development, probably it is better for the mythical End User person. Work needed to get software I need running is not less obscure than work I’d need to do on Linux or othe Unix-like system…. GUI that used to be nice and unintrusive, got annoying. Either I came full circle in the last 15 years of my computer usage, or the OSX experience degraded in last 5 years.So… it’s not just me. Somewhere between Snow Leopard and Mavericks I started finding building various things from source that never were a problem became an exercise in figuring out what library had been removed or moved or what Apple had done with lib/header paths or something else.
If people aren’t going over to another unix, what are they doing? Homebrew? Container-ing or virtualizing another unix? Or just suffering?