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8: A Brief Introduction
This week, we chat with Antti Kantee from the NetBSD project about a crazy little thing called rump kernels. We'll also be showing you all the different cool things you can do with BSD and the Tor network, as well as discussing all the latest news. So sit back and enjoy BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
Headlines
FreeBSD July-September 2013 Status Report
- Quarterly FreeBSD status report is out with A LOT of updates, we'll cover a few of them
- Highlights include AES-NI Improvements for GELI, Capsicum development, Continuation of the Newcons Project, Download Manager Service for the Ports Collection, status updates from all the various FreeBSD teams, FreeBSD on EC2 news, updates to the CSPRNG, much more
- We've covered some of these things already, but there's lots to read in the announcement
- See full page for details on everything ***
Dragonfly SMP contention update
- Lots of work going in to reducing SMP contention in the next Dragonfly release
- Anything which forks and/or execs a lot will now run as close to optimally as it is possible to run on a multi-core box
- The lead developer was using poudriere and noticed the performance difference, says this is "a fairly major milestone for the project"
- Lots of technical details in the mailing list post, check it out ***
FreeBSD gets "first boot" rc.d scripts
- Colin Percival added support for scripts that run on the first boot
- Might be desirable for embedded systems to automatically download and apply patches
- Similarly, it can be used to invoke freebsd-update to patch your system on the first bootup
- Could also be used to download and run a script or install ports or packages
- Already MFCed to 10-STABLE and 9-STABLE and added to ports
- Lots of possibilities ***
NetBSD gets lua scripting in the kernel
- NetBSD gained support for the Lua scripting language in the kernel
- A luactl command was added to easily manipulate it
- It will be interesting to see what can come out of this
- Speaking of NetBSD kernels, that leads us into our interview! ***
Interview - Antti Kantee - pooka@netbsd.org / @anttikantee
The anykernel and rump kernels
rump kernels in userspace, rump kernels + applications on Xen, fs-utils, rump kernel compiled to javascript
Tutorial
Running a Tor relay, bridge, exit or hidden service
News Roundup
Second PCBSD feature digest is out
- Weekly PCBSD digest is out to tell you about new features
- Mentions switching over all bug reports to trac.pcbsd.org
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