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BSD

FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 Almost Ready 175

Posted by timothy from the open-ended dept.
essdodson writes "Scott Long of the FreeBSD release engineering team has posted that FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 has been compiled and should be available shortly. Check it out and help make this the best FreeBSD release so far. The updated release schedule lists Jan 17, 2003 as the anticipated release date."
Programming

IRIX Multithreading Emulation on NetBSD 18

Posted by michael from the say-it-three-times-fast dept.
GrosBill writes "Onlamp publishes one more paper about IRIX binary compatibility implementation on NetBSD. This time, this is about emulating IRIX native multithreading capabilities on NetBSD, which is quite interesting since NetBSD does not support native multithreading for its native binaries yet. The paper also covers some reverse engineering tricks: how to use a debugger to discover everything about IRIX multithreading."
Apple

GNU-Darwin Dropping Cocoa, PPC Support 460

Posted by michael from the whoa dept.
Johnny Mnemonic writes "MacSlash is reporting that the Gnu-Darwin ports project has taken issue with some of Apple's current policies, to the extent of: 'GNU-Darwin will not support or distribute any software which links to proprietary libraries, and that includes Cocoa, Carbon, CoreAudio, etc. There will be no native package manager from GNU-Darwin (pkg_add suffices). Second, we will be moving our operations to x86, and we are putting the ppc collection into maintenance mode.' Astonished reaction on MacSlash, and recognition of the Fink alternative. Is this a worthy principled stand, or is it more like Kruschev banging his shoe in the UN? Will this help or hurt Apple's adoption of GPL technology?"
Apple

Jordan Hubbard Gives Last Intervew For Apple 122

Posted by pudge from the we-need-to-find-someone-new-to-link-to dept.
acaben writes "MacSlash has posted what Jordan Hubbard says will be his last interview for Apple. Apple's Engineering Manager for the BSD Technology Group talks about the new BSDPorts initiative, his thoughts on working for Apple and Apple's Open Source strategy, and how Mac users new to Open Source can get involved and contribute to the community. He also gets delightfully geeky in comparing the differences between Darwin's VM envirnoment and FreeBSD's and explains that Darwin was built with things like working with Final Cut Pro in mind."
BSD

December Daemon News Released 14

Posted by timothy from the still-hot dept.
LiquidPC writes "The new Daemon News is out. This month there are various articles such as Lightweight FTP jail with NAT, Getting More NetInfo Backups, Setting Up Sophos + Amavis For Postfix. And, of course, the usual Newbie's Corner, Answer Man, and Daemon's Advocate columns."
BSD

Sun vs. OpenBSD? 279

Posted by chrisd from the theo-doesn't-get-along-with-someone dept.
An anonymous reader writes "CNet has an article up about OpenBSD trying to get documentation for Sun's UltraSparc-III processor. Basically Sun is giving them a bit of run around....There is some documentation available for the processor, but not enough to get things to boot."
BSD

OpenBSD Book Suggestions 69

Posted by michael from the hefty-books-make-good-doorstops dept.
An anonymous reader writes "An OpenBSD book is being written and the author is looking for content suggestions to include in the book. It would be nice if the slashdot community suggested a bit or two. ;)"
Wine

WineX (And Warcraft3) On FreeBSD 143

Posted by timothy from the crossing-boundaries dept.
Dan writes "Kenneth Culver has implemented the Linux ftruncate64, truncate64, and mmap2 syscalls in the linuxulator on his computer, (mostly cut 'n pasted the mmap2 from regular mmap with a couple of changes) and with these changes it is possible to run the Linux version of WineX (the one you have to pay for) to run Warcraft 3 on FreeBSD." If WineX is interesting to you, this earlier article on playing Windows games with WineX (under Linux) may be worth a read.
Apple

Hard Drives Preloaded With GNU-Darwin 246

Posted by timothy from the hurd-drives-next-year dept.
proclus writes "A 40 gig Maxtor 3.5 inch, ATA/EIDE hard drive ready to go with GNU-Darwin OS pre-installed, plus GNU-Darwin Office, plus a full ports tree and select distfiles. This bundle includes Darwin-6.0.2, GNOME desktop, AbiWord, PyMOL, The GIMP, gdFortran, parallel computing, and much more. A triple CDR set is also included. Available now for ppc and x86 computers. The PPC version includes OpenOffice-1.0.1 and Mozilla-1.0. Compatibility is as specified for our OS installer CDs. Check out our updated ordering web page. (Mirror one mirror two.) You want it."
BSD

FreeBSD September-October 2002 Development Status 39

Posted by timothy from the behind-the-scenes dept.
mbadolato writes "A new status report documenting the latest goings on in FreeBSD has been published. There's some good information n there about the features for the upcoming 5.0 release. BTW, there happens to be a lot of stuff going in there for something that is, according to the trolls, dead! ;-)"
BSD

OpenBSD Requests UltraSPARC III Documentation 79

Posted by michael from the please-kind-sir dept.
An anonymous submitter writes "OpenBSD wants to run on all hardware. They've asked Sun for documentation on the UltraSPARC III processors over and over, but been stonewalled. Theo recently asked users to talk to Sun about this issue. A fairly complete thread archive can be found here. The real kicker is that Sun has released this documentation through an NDA to Linux developers..."
Announcements

OpenBSD Acquires IP Load Balancing 19

Posted by Hemos from the move-closer-and-closer dept.
xarc writes "OpenBSD 3.2-current has acquired IP load balancing support via its packet filter, PF. This is a great step for those of us who prefer OpenBSD, but are dependent on other OSes and software (such as Linux's Linux Virtual Server) to provide similar functionality."
The Almighty Buck

HotJobs Upgrades to FreeBSD 49

Posted by timothy from the sysadmin-sought-send-resume dept.
bsdmike writes "DaemonNews has a link to an news article that reports that Yahoo! has saved something like $470,000 by switching HotJobs from Sun Solaris to FreeBSD. It's really amazing what affordable hardware and great Open Source technology can do!"
Announcements

FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #2 343

Posted by timothy from the five-is-a-prime-number dept.
noackjr writes "'The FreeBSD Project is proud to announce the availability of the second Developer Preview snapshot of FreeBSD 5.0 (5.0-DP2). This snapshot, intended for widespread testing purposes, is the latest milestone towards the eventual release of FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE, currently scheduled for mid-December 2002.' See the announcement, early adopter's guide, and the release notes."
BSD

EuroBSDcon 2002 Finished 14

Posted by Hemos from the beautiful-friend-the-end dept.
Giacomo Cariello writes "The 2nd European BSD Conference was held November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam. It was a great success with over 250 attendees. Pictures are now online here. The best paper award was won by Poul-Henning Kamp. Next EuroBSDcon will probably take place in Paris."

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