41: Commit This Bit

This week in the big show, we'll be interviewing Benedict Reuschling of the FreeBSD documentation team, and he has a special surprise in store for Allan. As always, answers to your questions and all the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD moves to Bugzilla

Historically, FreeBSD has used the old GNATS system for keeping track of bug reports
After years and years of wanting to switch, they've finally moved away from GNATS to Bugzilla
It offers a lot of advantages, is much more modern and actively maintained and
There's a new workflow chart for developers to illustrate the new way of doing things
The old "send-pr" command will still work for the time being, but will eventually be phased out in favor of native Bugzilla reporting tools (of which there are multiple in ports)
This will hopefully make reporting bugs a lot less painful ***

DIY NAS: EconoNAS 2014

We previously covered this blog last year, but the 2014 edition is up
More of a hardware-focused article, the author details the parts he's using for a budget NAS
Details the motherboard, RAM, CPU, hard drives, case, etc
With a set goal of $500 max, he goes just over it - $550 for all the parts
Lots of nice pictures of the hardware and step by step instructions for assembly, as well as software configuration instructions ***

DragonflyBSD 3.8 released

Justin announced the availability of DragonflyBSD 3.8.0
Binaries in /bin and /sbin are dynamic now, enabling the use of PAM and NSS to manage user accounts
It includes a new HAMMER FS backup script and lots of FreeBSD tools have been synced with their latest versions
Work continues on for the Intel graphics drivers, but it's currently limited to the HD4000 and Ivy Bridge series
See the release page for more info and check the link for source-based upgrade instructions ***

OpenZFS European conference 2014

There was an OpenZFS conference held in Europe recently, and now the videos are online for your viewing pleasure
Matt Ahrens, Introduction
Michael Alexander, FhGFS performance on ZFS
Andriy Gapon, Testing ZFS on FreeBSD
Luke Marsden, HybridCluster: ZFS in the cloud
Vadim Comănescu, Syneto: continuously delivering a ZFS-based OS
Chris George, DDRdrive ZIL accelerator: random write revelation

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