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FreeBSD 11.0 BETA-3 now available

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The developers of FreeBSD have made available the third BETA of version 11.0. Notable changes are listed below, you can download the ISOs from here. The official 11.0-RELEASE is scheduled to go out on September 2nd.

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A summary of changes since BETA2 includes:

o Improvements to libunwind

o Updates to locales

o Increase the vt(4) framebuffer maximum size

o bsdinstall(8) updates to prompt for the date and time during install,
  as well as prompting to enable various system hardening tuning options

o Various other updates and fixes

A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available on the stable/11
release notes:

    https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/11-STABLE/relnotes/article.html

Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be
updated on an ongoing basis as the 11.0-RELEASE cycle progresses.

Official announcement: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2016-July/085114.html

Related links:

Softpedia – FreeBSD 11.0 Beta 3 Out Now, Final Release Is Expected to Land on September 2

DistroWatch – Development Release: FreeBSD 11.0-BETA3

Softpedia – FreeBSD 11.0 Beta 3 ISO Download

2016 BSDCan Trip Reports

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BSDCan 2016 was held at the University of Ottawa in Ontario on the weekend of June 10-11. The FreeBSD Foundation sponsored several users who have summarized their experiences in the posts below.

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2016 heralded my return to BSDCan after a 4 year hiatus. In part, I was inspired to return this year, after I took some holidays in France back in February. I had the distinct pleasure, that weekend, to have supper with just about all the Paris based FreeBSD committers. Plus, I got to meet my first ever mentee, jadawin@, who made a special trip to come visit. Keeping company with these great people for the night reminded me of the great camaraderie I had experienced at the conferences in years gone by, and I wanted to try experience that again. So, I showed up on campus, and everything felt familiar. This was the first good sign! From there, a few familiar faces were revealed, and before too long, it was almost old homecoming for me!

Thomas M. Abthorpe: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2016-bsdcan-trip-report-thomas-m-abthorpe/

Trent Thompson: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2016-bsdcan-trip-report-trent-thompson/

Li-Wen Hsu: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2016-bsdcan-trip-report-li-wen-hsu/

Ruslan Bukin: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2016-bsdcan-trip-report-ruslan-bukin/

[Blog] Leo Laporte – A Grand Experiment

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New user Leo Laporte, known US tech journalist, documents his switch to FreeBSD after being an avid and longtime Linux user. Read about his findings on why and how he chose to go with FreeBSD as a robust solution for his next project.

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The latest debacle over the “forced” upgrade to Windows 10 and Apple’s increasingly locked-in ecosystem has got me thinking. Do I really need to use a proprietary operating system to get work done? And while I’m at it, do I need to use commercial cloud services to store my data?

I’ve always used Linux since the first time I tried installing Slackware in the mid-90s. In 1998 we were the first national TV show to install Linux live (Red Hat). And I’ve often advocated Ubuntu to people with older computers. I usually have at least one computer running Linux around, in the past couple of years Dell XPS laptops have been great choices. And a couple of months ago I bought a 17″ Oryx laptop from System76, an Ubuntu system integrator, for use in studio.

Original blog: http://www.leolaporte.com/blog/a-grand-experiment

/r/opensource discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/4u6pff/a_grand_experiment_by_leo_laporte_i_love_linux/t1_d5o848x

/r/linux discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4u55tv/a_grand_experiment_by_leo_laporte_i_love_linux/t1_d5navuz

FreeBSD forums: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/57024/

[How-To] Creating FreeBSD Virtual Machine Using Azure Marketplace

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This tutorial by user Romil Bheda shows us how to get a  FreeBSD virtual machine set up in the Azure Marketplace. FreeBSD was recently added as an option to Microsoft’s cloud virtualization platform. See the link below for the full instructions.

Azure_FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

Microsoft has invested in porting their virtualization support (Hyper-V) for FreeBSD. Hyper-V support is available for FreeBSD-9 through the ports tree, but starting with FreeBSD-10 support for Hyper-V is included in the main tree. Currently 10.3 of FreeBSD version is available.

Azure VM guest agent is also available for the communication between FreeBSD Virtual Machine and Azure Fabric. This can perform various operations such as provisioning the virtual machine on first use and enabling the functionality for the selective virtual machine extensions.

Full tutorial: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/creating-freebsd-virtual-machine-using-azure-marketplace/

 

[How-To] FreeBSD 10.1 FreeSWITCH FusionPBX

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This tutorial by user jamalshahverdiev shows us how to get FreeSWITCH set up on FreeBSD 10.1. FreeSWITCH is an open source voice over IP protocol. FusionPBX acts as an voice application server. See the link below for full instructions.

FreeSWITCH – open source VoIP program. Have any features which must be on VoIP PBX. Have API which works with events. More details you can read from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeSWITCH link.

Our purpose of install FreeSWITCH to FreeBSD 10.1 x64 server and configure with WEB server. For that firstly we must install and configure FAMP (FreeBSD Apache MySQL PHP) to our server. But in php5-extensions you must choose modules as below:

Full tutorial: https://jamalshahverdiev.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/freebsd-10-1-freeswitch-fusionpbx/

FreeBSD 11.0-BETA1 now available

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freebsdlogoThe developers of FreeBSD have made available the 1st BETA. Notable changes are updates to the KMS drivers, improvements to the Linux binary compatibility layer and Bhyve virtualization, and more.

Installer images and memory stick images are available here:

    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/

The image checksums follow at the end of this e-mail.

If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.

If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "stable/11" branch.

A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available on the 11-CURRENT release notes:

    https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/article.html

Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 11.0-RELEASE cycle progresses.

Official announcement: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2016-July/084918.html

Phoronix: FreeBSD 11.0 Reaches Beta

Phoronix discussion: FreeBSD 11.0 Reaches Beta

EuroBSDCon 2016: registration is now open!

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BSD-2016-mascot-RGBEuroBSDcon 2016 is now open for registration. This annual conference will be held in Belgrade, Serbia from September 22 to 25, 2016.

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EuroBSDcon is the European annual technical conference gathering users and developers working on and with 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) based operating systems family and related projects.

EuroBSDcon gives the exceptional opportunity to learn about latest news from the BSD world, witness contemporary deployment case studies, and meet personally other users and companies using BSD oriented technologies. EuroBSDcon is also a boiler plate for ideas, discussions and information exchange, which often turn into programming projects.

The conference has always attracted active programmers, administrators and aspiring students, as well as IT companies at large, which found the conference a convenient and quality training option for its staff. We firmly believe that high profile education is vital to the future of technology, and hence greatly welcome students and young people to this regular meeting.

EuroBSDcon is run under the umbrella of the EuroBSDcon Foundation, a registered non-profit organisation in The Netherlands. You can contact us using the site contact form.

EuroBSDcon 2016 – https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/registration/

Original announcement: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/924

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[How-To] Running CockroachDB in a FreeBSD Jail

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User kena42 shows us how to get CockroachDB running in a FreeBSD jail. CockroachDB is an open source SQL database that is currently in its BETA stage. See the link below for the full instructions.

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Jails are FreeBSD’s native solution to contain and isolate server processes. They are an alternative to (and predate) Linux cgroups, Solaris zones, and other OS-level process isolation technologies (the technologies that underlie Docker, CoreOS and a few others) .

This blog post will explain how to natively run CockroachDB in a FreeBSD jail. This is lighter weight and as secure as running Docker on FreeBSD.

Full tutorial: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/critters-in-a-jar-running-cockroachdb-in-a-freebsd-jail/

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