BSD

FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 Released 116

Posted by michael from the try-and-die dept.
Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Scott Long has uploaded ISO images and FTP install bits for FreeBSD 5.2-RC1. i386, alpha, and pc98 are available now, amd64 will be available shortly, and sparc64 will be available shortly. Please test this as much as possible so that the FreeBSD Team can release a good 5.2-RELEASE next week. Testing focus for 5.2-RELEASE relates to PCM locking and performance issues, ATA driver improvements, GPT support for sysinstall, ATAng disk corruption issues, SMP and random_harvest panic, vinum data corruption, ACPI kernel module and reported NFS failures."
Security

OpenBSD Gains "Fuzzy" User Profiling IDS 54

Posted by timothy from the and-who-the-hell-are-you dept.
NaveWeiss writes "According to the OpenBSD Journal, major work has been done on an innovative new OpenBSD feature termed 'fuzzy user profile' intrusion detection system' - or 'fupids.' According to Steffen Wendzel, the code 'creates profiles for every user who does an execve() syscall on obsd systems.'"
BSD

Two papers On Performance Tuning FreeBSD 47

Posted by Hemos from the making-it-better-and-faster dept.
avleenvig writes "Finally I have completed my paper on tuning the FreeBSD system for various common tasks, to compliment the paper on compiling and tuning the FreeBSD kernel. These papers were written against FreeBSD 4.x systems but should be equally applicable to 5.x systems on almost all counts. Compiling and tuning the FreeBSD kernel: http://silverwraith.com/papers/freebsd-kernel.php Performance tuning FreeBSD for different applications: http://silverwraith.com/papers/freebsd-tuning.php. You will find within, details on tuning your network, disks, sysctls and kernel for maximum performance under various conditions. "
Software

NetBSD Packages Collection No Longer Frozen 73

Posted by CowboyNeal from the might-still-be-soggy dept.
jschauma writes "As many users will probably have noticed by the increase in recent pkgsrc commits, the NetBSD Packages Collection freeze is now officially over. Starting October 6th, 2003 and lasting almost two months, the NetBSD Packages team concentrated upon stabilizing the over 4,000 software packages and the pkgsrc infrastructure to prepare for a stable pkgsrc branch. During that time, the number of broken packages during a i386 bulk build was brought down to a mere 15, and a large number of PRs was closed. A new branch with the tag ``pkgsrc-2003Q4'' was created, allowing our users to maintain a highly stabilized third-party software package managment environment, as only pullups of significant importance (such as security issues) are applied to this branch."
Programming

ifconfig refactoring for FreeBSD 125

Posted by Hemos from the make-it-work-better dept.
Dan writes "Based on Sam Leffer's suggestion, Bruce Simpson has been working on refactoring ifconfig(8). ifconfig is a FreeBSD unix utility used to assign an address to a network interface and/or configure network interface parameters. Bruce says that ifconfig has grown increasingly large and become unwieldy. Part of the effort has been to get a handle on all of the options that are currently supported so he has written a YACC grammar for it. He has uploaded some grammer, created a design document and also generated a PDF file you can view which shows you syntax diagrams for each part of the parse tree."
GNOME

GNOME 2.5.0 Available For FreeBSD 66

Posted by timothy from the little-gnomes-everywhere dept.
Dan writes "FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke announces that GNOME 2.5.0 desktop, the "Obviously you're not a golfer" release, is now available for FreeBSD. You can check out this release from the MarcusCom CVS repository. Be sure to get the latest copy of the "marcusmerge" script while you're there to help with the upgrade. Thanks to FreeBSD GNOME users, there is also a man page to go with this script. NOTE: this is a developers release, and bugs will exist. If you're not into bug-hunting, you should probably steer clear until 2.6.0 is released."
BSD

10 Years of FreeBSD: Anniversary Party 42

Posted by michael from the scariness dept.
FreeBSD FOREVER writes "OSNews has a quick write-up from FreeBSD's 10th Anniversary Party, which they call a success for the project and the attendees."
Announcements

FreeBSD 10-Year Anniversary Tonight 79

Posted by timothy from the you-are-surrounded-by-pretty-screens dept.
regs writes "There's a free 10-year anniversary party for FreeBSD tonight. Should be an interesting place to meet-and-greet. The venue is jwz's wonderful nightclub, The DNA Lounge. Of course, if you're not in the Bay Area to start with, you probably can't make it." Bearing that in mind ...
OS X

Darwin, Fink Updates 36

Posted by pudge from the for-the-mac-super-nerd-inside-you dept.
BSDForums writes "The Darwin team is pleased to announce the availability of the Darwin 7.0.1 Installer CD. This is a single Installer CD that will boot and install Darwin on Macintosh computers supported by Mac OS X 10.3, as well as certain x86-based personal computers. The version of Darwin installed by this CD corresponds to the open source core of Mac OS X 10.3. Check out the release notes for more information." dmalloc writes "The Fink team has announced that their binary distribution versioned 0.6.2 is ready for use now. It is a bug-fix release to alleviate issues that came up in 0.6.1. Along with the bug fixes, it introduces an enhanced package manager which is now capable of using the finkmirrors.net-supplied rsync and distfiles mirrors."
Operating Systems

DragonFly At DragonFly 1.0-CURRENT 108

Posted by timothy from the nomenclature dept.
CoolVibe writes "For months, the DragonflyBSD fork of FreeBSD was maintaining compatibility with the existing FreeBSD-STABLE branch by using the 'FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE' name internally. In a few commits, Matt Dillon changed all the names, and DragonFly is finally sailing under its own banner. Things that DragonFlyBSD already has that FreeBSD-STABLE doesn't are, among others, application checkpointing, variant symlinks (not unlike Domain OS), Light-weight kernel threads, a more efficient slab-allocator, a multithreaded network stack, and the rcNG system."
Operating Systems

/bin And /sbin Now Dynamically Linked In FreeBSD 172

Posted by timothy from the seen-at-same-nightclub dept.
Dan writes "Gordon Tetlow just committed a patch in FreeBSD current to change /bin and /sbin from statically to dynamically linked. The reason to do this is two-fold. This feature brings support for loadable PAM and NSS modules to base system utilities located in those directories. It also reduces the storage requirements for the root filesystem due to the use of shared libraries. This feature can be disabled in a buildworld by defining the Makefile (make.conf) variable WITHOUT_DYNAMICROOT. Note that statically-linked, crunched executables are available in the /rescue directory for use during system repair and recovery operations."

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