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FreeBSD Foundation Update (January 2016)

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The FreeBSD Foundation has released their newsletter for the month of January. This update features the usual project developments, SCALE14x, Sean Bruno, as well as fundraising initiatives for 2016. Check out the link below to view the PDF.

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Dear FreeBSD Community Member,

The Foundation is entering 2016 at full steam ahead. We’re attending conferences to spread the word about FreeBSD, funding new projects, and continuing to showcase the hard working members of the FreeBSD community. Of course, this is only some of work we’re embarking on for the coming year. Stay tuned for even more announcements surrounding our efforts to help the FreeBSD Project and community. Your continued support makes this all possible. We wish you all a very Happy New Year and look forward to all we accomplish together in 2016.

Deb

January 2016 FreeBSD Foundation – https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2016janupdate.pdf

 

How-To: FreeBSD w/ TACACS+ GNS3 and Cisco 3700 Router

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User shows us how to get FreeBSD connected to your CISCO 3700 router via TACACS+. Follow the link below for full instructions.

Tac-3700TACACS+ – (Terminal Access Controller Access Control System plus) — is a session protocol developed by Cisco.

Security(encryption) of the Protocol has improved. TACACS+ is a separately handles authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) services.

Used resources:

  1. FreeBSD 9.2 x64 (VM, IP: 10.0.0.10)
  2. GNS3 (Router 3700, IP: 10.0.0.100)
  3. Windows LoopBACK_Adapter (IP: 10.0.0.1)

Flow structure will be as follows:
FreeBSD x64 10.0.0.10 => LoopBACK Adapter (10.0.0.1) => GNS Cloud => Cisco Router 10.0.0.100

Full instructions: http://www.unixmen.com/freebsd-tacacs-gns3-and-cisco-3700-router/

 

Larry the BSD Guy – VIMAGE coming to FreeBSD, Lumina on FreeBSD 10.0

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Larry the BSD Guy reports on VIMAGE, a network stack virtualization platform, and Lumina Desktop Environment, both making significant advancements on FreeBSD. Check out his articles in the links below to see whats in store for the future.

So what is VIMAGE?

“The VIMAGE project builds upon FreeBSD’s jail lightweight virtualization mechanism,” Maste explains in the newsletter. “The initial VIMAGE work was supported by NLNet and the FreeBSD Foundation, and has been available as a kernel compile-time option for some time. Unfortunately, a number of stability and reliability issues have prevented the project from enabling VIMAGE in the default GENERIC kernel.”

VIMAGE Coming Soon to FreeBSD – http://fossforce.com/2016/02/vimage-coming-soon-freebsd/

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The BSD licensed Lumina Desktop aims to release version 1.0 in July.

It appears the sun is rising on Lumina.

Ken Moore, the lead developer for the BSD-based Lumina Desktop Environment, announced that another step towards the release of a full-fledged desktop environment for BSD variants (and Linux distros, for that matter) has been achieved with the release of version 0.8.8 yesterday.

Lumina Desktop Getting Ready for FreeBSD 11.0 http://fossforce.com/2016/02/lumina-desktop-getting-ready-freebsd-11-0/

Thanks to DragonFlyDigest for the links.

PC-BSD / FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT Performance

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Michael from Phoronix gives us another benchmark test, this time with FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT. Follow the link below to see a detailed report with charts.

pcbsdphoronixLast week I had plans to run some fresh FreeBSD vs. Linux gaming benchmarks using the FreeBSD’s Linux software binary compatibility layer.

For those that don’t know, FreeBSD boasts a Linux binary compatibility initiative. Five years ago I did some Linux gaming tests on FreeBSD within FreeBSD: A Faster Platform For Linux Gaming Than Linux?. I wanted to do some modern tests atop the latest FreeBSD/PC-BSD code and the latest NVIDIA driver…

Full report: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-11.0-Jan-CURRENT

FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems

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fmspf-front-cover-2015-12-02-50FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems by Michael W. Lucas, a critically acclaimed author of many FreeBSD books, is now available to purchase on Amazon (eBook or Paperback).

Amazon – http://www.amazon.com/FreeBSD-Mastery-Specialty-Filesystems/dp/0692610448/


Mr. Lucas has also announced an early table of contents for his upcoming book FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS – http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2548

Consider becoming a sponsor to this project by donating and getting your name in the book.

 

Basis Of The Lumina Desktop Environment by Ken Moore

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Check out this article from BSD Mag — Ken Moore gives us a overview on the Lumina Desktop Environment. You can try out Lumina shipped right on the PC-BSD operating system. Follow the link below for the full article.

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The Lumina Desktop Environment is a new, BSD-licensed, graphical system environment which is designed primarily for BSD and UNIX-based operating systems. This focus on BSD systems results in a number of distinct differences in from the current collection of Linux-focused desktop environments, only one of which is independence from all the Linux-based system management frameworks.

This article will explain a bit of the history behind the Lumina desktop, the foundations of its design philosophy, the internal operating system sup- port framework, the current status of the project, and the goals/timeline for the project to achieve an official (non- beta) release….

BSD Magazine – http://bsdmag.org/lumina_desktop/

“why attention to detail matters when you’re a kernel developer” + QCA9558 by Adrian Chadd

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Check out this article by Adrian Chadd, known for his WiFI work in FreeBSD, on why attention to details matter as a kernel developer.

tp-link-ac1750-archer-c7When I started with this Atheros MIPS 11n stuff a few years ago, my first test board was a Routerstation Pro with a pair of AR9160 NICs. I could get ~ 150mbit/sec bridging performance out of it, and I thought I was doing pretty good.

Fast forward to now, and I’ve been bringing FreeBSD up on each of the subsequent boards. But the performance never improved. Now, I never bothered to look into it because I was always too busy with my day job, but finally someone trolled me correctly on the FreeBSD embedded IRC channel and I took a look.

It turns out that.. things could’ve benefited from a lot of improvement…

Full blog here: http://bsdmag.org/qca9558/

3 BSDs vs 10 Linux Comparisons

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Michael Larabel of Phoronix recently compared three BSD systems (DragonFlyBSD, OpenBSD, and PC-BSD) against ten Linux distributions, starting with benchmarks all the way to file compression speeds.

bsdlinux2Earlier this week I posted the results of a 10-way Linux distribution battle on the same Intel Xeon system and using all of the popular and latest Linux distribution releases. Taking things further, the article today has those results complemented by results on the Xeon system for several BSD operating systems. For seeing how the BSD performance stacks up to Linux, DragonFlyBSD, OpenBSD, and the FreeBSD-based PC-BSD were benchmarked.

Read his full report here: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3bsd-10linux&num=1

Thanks to DragonFlyDigest for the link.

Larry – BSD at SCALE 14x

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larrybsdguyLarry the BSD Guy gives us a summary of his experience at SCALE14x. Check the link below to read the full story.

As I may have mentioned during the SCALE 14x coverage, one of the disadvantages of the glorious burden of working for a great event such as SCALE is that I don’t get out of the media room enough. The fact is, I can’t — herding the cats known as the tech media and processing various social media posts around the event keeps me in the room.

But I do get to go fix things occasionally, and that’s when I make the rounds on the expo floor.

BSD had itself its own row of booths in the expanded expo hall — FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation, and OpenBSD were all neighbors on the exhibit floor. As is common for all the conferences we attend, Dru Lavigne and I — she moreso than me — got to catch up on things, and I took the time to drop in on her “Doc Like and Egyptian” presentation (though, burdened with a radio, I was called away to put out a minor “fire,” rhetorically speaking, in the press room).

Larry the Free Software Guy – http://fossforce.com/2016/01/bsd-scale-14x/

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