One of the most interesting improvements made in DragonFly BSD are about the HAMMER filesystem which is now considered ready for productional use. It is also now possible to boot from a HAMMER-only disk, though this is still not recommended. On the kernel side first steps toward AMD64 support have …
OpenBSD releases every half year a new version, usually at 1st of May and 1st of Nov. Now the upcoming version 4.5 has been tagged as BETA which should be available on the OpenBSD mirrors soon. You are invited to check it out and report bugs you find to …
The new version brings ULE as the default scheduler, DTrace inside the kernel framework, booting from USB devices, improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client, a new cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command that brings an API for thread to CPU binding and last but not least DVD-sized media …
The long awaited FreeBSD 7.0 Release is out. Some highlights include:
- Better scalability and performance improvements on SMP systems (benchmarks showed linear scaling on machines with 8 CPUs)
- Improved the ULE and 4BSD schedulers
- the new and highly scalable memory allocator jemalloc
- Reading of XFS volumes
- experimantal support of …
sysjail, sysjail.bsd.lv, is a user-land virtualisation system first released early last year. The primary goal of sysjail is to provide the functionality of FreeBSD's jail(8) to OpenBSD (and NetBSD) users. Since November, the project has quieted, but in the past few months I've had opportunity to fix …