Matthew Dillon’s CPU bug hunt has scattered its way across various news sites, some more accurate than others. He’s posted a followup that is probably a more valuable read than any of the news reports.
Accepting Travel Grant Applications for BSDCan 2012
Posted on March 8th, 2012 by "dru lavigne" from "FreeBSD Foundation"
Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses for BSDCan 2012.
The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application by April 6, 2012 to apply for this grant.
This program is open to FreeBSD developers of all sorts (kernel hackers,
The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application by April 6, 2012 to apply for this grant.
This program is open to FreeBSD developers of all sorts (kernel hackers,
Running something once
Posted on March 7th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"Have you ever tried to run a service and realized you forgot to make an entry in rc.conf to enable it? It’s mildly annoying. There’s now a “one’ keyword (via NetBSD) that lets you enable a service, once. It still apparently performs sanity checks, unlike the otherwise-similar ‘force’ keyword.
Call for Testers: Upcoming LibreOffice Port with Localizations
Posted on March 7th, 2012 by "dru" from "Official PC-BSD Blog"Many PC-BSD users have been looking for localized versions of the LibreOffice PBI (which, like the underlying FreeBSD port, is currently only available in English). The FreeBSD LibreOffice porting team is working on the next version of the port which will be localized.
Baptiste Daroussin from the porting team describes the current state of the upcoming port in this mailing
2012 Budget
Posted on March 7th, 2012 by "dru lavigne" from "FreeBSD Foundation"
The Foundation's 2012 budget has been published and is available as a PDF download. The total budget is $595,350, more than double the 2011 budget. Highlights include:
- $125,850 allocated for FreeBSD infrastructure equipment
- $60,000 allocated for conference sponsorships and travel grants
- $200,000 allocated for funded projects
Foundation at NELF
Posted on March 7th, 2012 by "dru lavigne" from "FreeBSD Foundation"
NorthEast Linux Fest will be held in Worcester, MA on March 17. Registration is free for this event and there will be a FreeBSD booth. If you're in the area, drop by the booth to say hi, check out the Foundation swag, discuss funded projects, or make a donation to the Foundation.
Testimonial: Experts Exchange
Posted on March 7th, 2012 by "dru lavigne" from "FreeBSD Foundation"
Andrew Alsup, Site Director of Experts Exchange recently provided the following testimonial:
Experts Exchange is a technology help site. We've developed a patented Q&A system that makes finding solutions easier. People ask questions and experts from around the world provide reliable answers.
Since 2009, Experts Exchange has used FreeBSD as its operating system of choice for all external facing web
Experts Exchange is a technology help site. We've developed a patented Q&A system that makes finding solutions easier. People ask questions and experts from around the world provide reliable answers.
Since 2009, Experts Exchange has used FreeBSD as its operating system of choice for all external facing web
BSD Magazine: lots of stuff
Posted on March 7th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"The March issue of BSD Magazine is out, as a free PDF as always. It’s a real grab-bag of topics this time, so there should be something to interest you. This time, it might be an article on DragonFly and Beowulf clusters. (I was totally not expecting that.)
Older Python not dead yet
Posted on March 7th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"A few days ago, I posted about Python 2.4 and Python 2.5 leaving pkgsrc – it looks like it’ll be a little bit longer, at least for the 2.5 version. This means the Zope packages will be gone too, since they depend on Python 2.4. This won’t affect you if you aren’t using these packages, of course.
New Funded Project: Grow Mounted Filesystems
Posted on March 6th, 2012 by "dru lavigne" from "FreeBSD Foundation"
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierala has been awarded a grant to implement the ability to grow filesystems while they are mounted.
"Users of FreeBSD in a virtualized environment will be pleased with the increased ease of deployment afforded by the ability to grow mounted filesystems," said Ed Maste, Director, The FreeBSD Foundation.
This project
"Users of FreeBSD in a virtualized environment will be pleased with the increased ease of deployment afforded by the ability to grow mounted filesystems," said Ed Maste, Director, The FreeBSD Foundation.
This project
FreeBSD 8.3-RC1 Available
Posted on March 6th, 2012 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"
The first RC build for the FreeBSD-8.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
All that work, vindicated
Posted on March 5th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"Notice how the 2.12 release never really happened, and 3.0 came out about 6 months later than usual? A lot of that delay was caused by a vigorous search for a weird bug. Multi-threaded buildworlds would crash, seemingly randomly and rarely. It turns out we have confirmation from AMD that it is, indeed, a CPU hardware bug.
Google Summer of Code application in
Posted on March 5th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"The organization application for DragonFly is in for Google Summer of Code. If you are thinking of working as a mentor or as a student, please let me know soon! We will know if we’re accepted (for the 5th time!) on the 16th.
George Neville-Neil Joins Board of Directors
Posted on March 5th, 2012 by "dru lavigne" from "FreeBSD Foundation"
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of George Neville-Neil to its board of directors.
George has been dabbling in the BSD world since his undergraduate days in the mid-1980s. He was granted his commit bit in 2004, and has served two terms on the FreeBSD Core team between 2006 and 2010.
In 2011, he started organizing the
George has been dabbling in the BSD world since his undergraduate days in the mid-1980s. He was granted his commit bit in 2004, and has served two terms on the FreeBSD Core team between 2006 and 2010.
In 2011, he started organizing the
Trip Report: FOSDEM 2012
Posted on March 5th, 2012 by "dru lavigne" from "FreeBSD Foundation"
The Foundation recently sponsored travel expenses for Brooks Davis to attend FOSDEM 2012. Brooks provided the following trip report:
I arrived in Brussels the afternoon of Thursday the 2nd. After checking in to my hotel I headed into the city center and met up with a group of FreeBSD and Étoilé developers for dinner. On Friday I toured the city
I arrived in Brussels the afternoon of Thursday the 2nd. After checking in to my hotel I headed into the city center and met up with a group of FreeBSD and Étoilé developers for dinner. On Friday I toured the city
Lazy Reading for 2012/03/04
Posted on March 4th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"Whee!
- “Entropy is a programming langauge where data decays as the program runs. ” (via) It was used to write Drunk Eliza, a form of the famous Eliza program that uses Rogerian-therapy-style interaction. That led me to find Esolang, the esoteric programming languages wiki. You will be amused/horrified, perhaps simultaneously, by some of the languages
Do you like Haskell?
Posted on March 3rd, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"If you said “Yes!”, you’re in luck. Markus Pfeiffer got ghc to compile on DragonFly, and his fixes (for DragonFly at least) to enable it are already committed.
BSD conventions happening in Europe
Posted on March 3rd, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"I’ve seen notices in the past 24 hours for 2 different BSD events: BSD-Day, at UAS Technikum Wien in Vienna, Austria on May 5, 2012, and EuroBSDcon 2012, in Warsaw, Poland, October 18-21. The Call For Proposals is out for EuroBSDcon, for submission by May 20th.
EuroBSDCon 2012 Call For Proposals Is Out
Posted on March 2nd, 2012 by "openbsd journal" from "OpenBSD Journal"
The organizers of EuroBSDCon 2012 wrote in to tell us that their Call For Proposals is out:
EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers on BSD-based systems. The EuroBSDcon 2012 conference will be held in Warsaw, Poland from Thursday 18 October 2012 to Sunday 21 October 2012, with tutorials on Thursday and Friday and talks on Saturday
Python changes in pkgsrc
Posted on March 2nd, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"The default version of Python in pkgsrc is going to become 2.7. This will mean the 2012Q1 release will use that version by default. Older versions, meaning Python 2.4 and 2.5, may be going away. At least, that’s how the linked thread started but I’m not totally sure about it as I read farther through.
