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5: Stacks of Cache

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After returning from a successful EuroBSDCon in Malta, we're back to get you caught up on all the latest news! We've got stories, interviews and a special treat for OpenBSD fans later in the show. All that and more on this week's BSD Now, the place to B.. SD.

Headlines
FreeBSD 9.2 released
  • FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE is finally out
  • Highlights include ZFS TRIM and LZ4 support, virtio drivers, dtrace and OpenSSH updates as well as lots of driver improvements
  • Will be supported until 2014-09-30
  • Get out there and freebsd-update or buildworld!
    • ***
    Four new NetBSD releases
    • NetBSD 5.2 and 5.1 branches get security and bugfix updates
    • The 6.1 and 6.0 branches were updated soon after, also with security updates and bug fixes
    • Check the show notes for the full changelog
      • ***
      BIND being replaced by unbound in FreeBSD
      • Most FreeBSD users are familiar with BIND from the security notifications
      • It has has many vulnerabilities over the years, and we’ll finally be rid of it
      • Being replaced with unbound and ldns, everyone rejoices
      • As of September 24th, BIND is no longer built by default
      • As of September 30th, BIND was completely removed
      • Includes an easy to use script for local DNS
      • OpenBSD also has unbound in base, but it's not built by default yet
        • ***
        DragonflyBSD future plans
        • An announcement was posted that details some possible plans for Dragonfly
        • dports (their version of FreeBSD ports) will be switching to GCC 4.7
        • i915 support is probably going to be in version 3.6
        • Work is being done on HAMMER 2, but it won't make it to 3.6
        • 3.6 is also likely going to ditch pkgsrc as the default in favor of dports, due to a hugely positive reaction from the community
          • ***
          FreeBSD ports get Stack Protector support
          • Some portsnap users noticed a massive sweep of every port being updated
          • Shortly after, stack protector support was announced by Bryan Drewery
          • Only works on i386 and AMD64 on FreeBSD 10 and AMD64 on 9
          • Hopefully will become the default, but needs to go through some testing and exp-runs
            • ***
            EuroBSDCon 2013 wrap-up chat
            • BSD Now is back from EuroBSDCon with lots of stories
            • We picked up an OpenBSD 5.4 CD set at EuroBSDCon, before the official release
            • We'll give a little showcase of what's inside, they put a lot of effort into it
            • Comes with the OS, source code, stickers, music, cool other stuff
            • Consider supporting the OpenBSD project
              • ***
              Interview - Marshall Kirk McKusick - [email protected]

              Various topics

              Tutorial
              Faster recompiles with ccache and tmpfs
              News Roundup
              List of vBSDCon speakers posted
              • Registration will be open until October 23rd
              • Presentations covering FreeBSD, OpenBSD, FreeNAS and others
                • ***
                Xen PVHVM added to GENERIC
                • It's now possible to run FreeBSD 10 under Xen with the GENERIC kernel
                • freebsd-update will work now
                • With FreeBSD 10 ALPHA 4 just being released, should be interesting
                • We should call the new kernel "XENERIC"
                  • ***
                  Dragonfly AMD KMS port
                  • A Dragonfly user has started porting the new FreeBSD AMD KMS driver
                  • Still a work in progress, asking for help from the community
                    • ***
                    NetBSD gets an nVidia driver
                    • NetBSD gets a preliminary nVidia driver
                    • So far only supports the GeForce 2MX, so not a lot of use just yet
                    • No acceleration yet, but it's a start
                      • ***
                      FreeBSD cracks the top 10 on DistroWatch
                      • Over the last year FreeBSD has steadily moved up the rankings from #18 to #10
                      • Increasing from an average of 570 to 779 hits per day
                      • Surpassed CentOS, Puppy Linux and Slackware
                        • ***
                        Feedback/Questions
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