The 10th BSDNow episode is out, with the ambitious title, “Year of the BSD Desktop”. As you can guess from the title, a PC-BSD desktop gets set up as part of the episode, and as you might not guess from the title, they interview Michael W. Lucas.
I am doing this one at the last minute. I had all the articles noted, but normally I build this post over the course of the week.
- FreeBSD has added the atse(4) network driver.
- FreeBSD has added iw_cxgbe, for Chelsio T4/T5 chips.
- FreeBSD has added (initial, minimal) AR9340 switch SoC support.
- PC-BSD has an interesting install-to-SSD option that disables atime and swap.
- NetBSD now has a Lua device driver to access.
- NetBSD has added Apple’s libunwind.
- NetBSD has added several different iic sensors from OpenBSD.
- OpenBSD has added vxlan(4), a virtual LAN setup. (Layer 2 traffic over layer 3)
- “Vendor said so” is a reasonable excuse.
- OpenBSD has an altq replacement.
I got some PC-BSD items this week, too.
- Open Source Snapshot: GhostBSD.
- (Free)BSD and Dropbox.
- FreeBSD finally dumped rcs.
- FreeBSD’s igb(4) driver is updated to 2.4.0.
- FreeBSD’s binutils now has “support for assembling and disassembling Intel Random Number Generator extensions“.
- You can now use ‘athsurvey’ on AR5212 chipset ath(4) devices in FreeBSD.
- FreeBSD branched version 11.
- FreeBSD has changes contributed by… Microsoft?
- PC-BSD has added a GUI version of their Life Preserver application.
- PC-BSD has a new ‘pc-zmanager’ program for managing ZFS and disks.
- PC-BSD has branched version 10, I think.
- NetBSD runs on the iMX233/OLinuXino.
- OpenBSD replaced rc4 with ChaCha20. No, I’m not sure what that means. (via)
- OpenBSD now has the vmwpvs(4) driver, for VMWare paravirtualized SCSI.
- OpenBSD has imported Mesa 9.2.1 and Freetype 2.5.0.1.
- OpenBSD supports the AM335x EDMA3 controller.
- OpenBSD supports the RTL8106E and RTL8168G/8111G networking chipsets.
- Diffe-Hellman key size increased in OpenBSD. It’s from NIST Special Publication 800-57, which is unavailable as of this typing because of the stupid U.S. government shutdown.
Barely getting this done in time for Saturday…
- FreeBSD can now download firmware for Samsung drives.
- FreeBSD has updated ipfilter to 5.1.2.
- FreeBSD has updated to OpenPAM Nummularia.
- On FreeBSD, clang means no gcc or libstdc++. (part of the switch)
- FreeBSD has new Hyper-V drivers.
- NetBSD has support for the ‘4G Systems XS Stick W14’.
- NetBSD has updated Postfix to 2.8.15.
- NetBSD has a pile of Broadcom chipset changes.
- NetBSD has support for the MPL115A2 pressure sensor.
- NetBSD has a start on xhci (AKA USB3) support.
- OpenBSD has support for the FreeScale i.MX6 SoC.
- OpenBSD enabled support for TLS/SSL Perfect Forward Secrecy.
- OpenBSD 5.4 is available for pre-order.
- OpenBSD used to build an MPLS network.
- PC-BSD is going to start building on FreeBSD-10.
- The pkgsrc-2013Q3 pre-release freeze starts tomorrow.
There’s already been some previous conversation about how much longer to support the i386 platform for DragonFly. It looks like PC-BSD will be the first ‘flavor’ of BSD to make the jump. Support for PC-BSD on i386 will be dropped after release 9.2. That includes ‘TrueOS‘, the version of PC-BSD for servers, which I did not know about until just now.