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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/java/news.xml Mon May 6 11:53:22 2013 (r41554)
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@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@
1.6 and JRE 1.6. For more details, see the
Foundation newsletter and the download
+ href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/java">download
page.
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Release 9.0 (January 2012) - - Announcement: - Release Notes: - Installation Instructions: - Hardware Notes: - Readme: - Errata -
-Release &rel2.current; (&rel2.current.date;) @@ -103,6 +93,17 @@ Information page.
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- &rel2.current; (&rel2.current.date;) @@ -101,6 +91,16 @@ ˤޤȤƤޤ
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+This report covers &os;-related projects between January and + March 2013. This is the first of four reports planned for 2013.
+ +Highlights from this status report include the busy preparations + of 8.4-RELEASE, steady progress of several porting efforts, like + work on the &os; ports of xorg, GNOME, KDE, and Xfce, bringing + &os; to Cubieboard and Hackberry boards, development of ARM and + AMD GPU support, improving performance of UFS/FFS and callouts, + and introducing a multipath TCP implementation for the network + stack.
+ +Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report + contains 30 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.
+ +The deadline for submissions covering the period between April + and June 2013 is July 14th, 2013.
+The Core Team approved using Google Analytics on the Project + web site to enable the Documentation Engineering Team to collect + statistics on its usage for better profiling.
+ +Due to some debates around the political correctness of quotes + added for the fortune(6) utility, the corresponding data file + has been removed from the base system in -CURRENT.
+ +In light of the security incident, the liaison role between the + Core Team and the Security Team has been restored, with Gavin + Atkinson assuming this role. The Core Team works hard on + resolving the current situation of the binary package building + cluster and the associated security problems in tight + cooperation with the Ports Management Team, Cluster + Administators, and the &os; Foundation Board. The compromise page + is kept updated on the results.
+ +The &os; Project submitted an application for Google Summer of + Code this year again.
+ +In the first quarter, the Core Team granted access for 2 new + committers and took 1 commit bit for safekeeping.
+ +The ports tree contains approximately 24,300 ports, while the + PR count still is close to 1600.
+ +In the first quarter we added 4 new committers, took in 1 + commit bit for safe keeping, and re-instated 1 commit bit.
+ +In February, Mark Linimon (linimon) stepped down from his + duties in the team. Mark had been the longest serving member of + the team. Mark had spent many long hours refactoring and + documenting the portbuild software to ensure that pointyhat + services could be restored.
+ +After a security review, redports.org was turned back on, + restoring Tinderbox services to contributors, along with post + commit QATs. In addition, pointyhat infrastructure had also + undergone a review and work begain on restoring the package + build system.
+ +Erwin Lansing (erwin) and Martin Wilke (miwi) took on the + principle roles of getting the portbuild software intalled and + running on pointyhat. As a result of all their hard work, + portmgr@ was finally able to resume doing -exp runs, preparing + packages for the upcoming 8.4 release, as well as getting a set + of 9.1 packages retroactively prepared.
+ +After many long years of being the defacto standard for the + Project, CVS support for the ports tree officially ended on + February 28.
+ +The ports tree was tagged with RELEASE_7_EOL, to + coincide with the end of life for &os; 7.X.
+ +Beat Gaetzi (beat) stepped down from his duties on portmgr@ in + March. Among his notable contributions, was the task of migrating + the Ports Tree from the old CVS repo to Subversion.
+ +Bryan Drewery (bdrewery) joined the Ports Management team in + March, bringing with him his wealth of knowledge and skill from + maintaining portupgrade, portmaster, assisting with pkgng, as + well as co-developing poudriere.
+ + +Web page (htdocs): Newsflash and some other updates in + the English version have been translated to keep them up-to-date. + Specifically, the release related contents were updated in this + period.
+ +Books: &os; Handbook has constantly been updated since the last + report; particularly, "ports", "desktop" section were largely + updated. Some progress has been made in the + "advanced-networking" section, contributed by a new + translator.
+ +Writing &os; Problem Reports
article is now in sync with
+ the English version.
Initial support of Allwinner A10 SoC is committed to -CURRENT. + &os; is now running on boards such as Cubieboard, Hackberry and + it supports following peripherals:
+ +We have been working to create a BSD-licensed implementation of + Multipath TCP — a set of TCP extensions that allow for + transparent multipath operation with multiple IP addresses as + specified in experimental RFC6824.
+ +We made our first v0.1 public release on 2013-03-11 and + recently released v0.3 on 2013-04-16. The code is currently + considered to be of alpha quality. We are working towards + pushing the code into a &os; Subversion repository project + branch to continue the on-going development effort in a more + publicly accessible location. As part of this move, we hope to + begin releasing regular snapshot installer ISOs of the MPTCP + project branch courtesy of Hiroki Sato and the allbsd.org daily + snapshot infrastructure.
+ +We are about to releas a CAIA technical report 130424A entitled
+ Design Overview of Multipath TCP version 0.3 for
+ &os; 10
on 2013-04-24 which provides a high-level
+ design and architecture overview of the v0.3 code release.
Going forward, we expect to continue development and release + additional technical reports and academic papers covering topics + such as performance analysis and multipath congestion + control/scheduling.
+ + +Work is under way to implement TCP-AO (TCP Authentication + Option) according to RFC5925 and RFC5926. TCP-AO is an + extension to TCP-MD5 signatures commonly used in routers to + secure BGP routing protocol sessions against spoofing attacks. + The work is under contract and sponsored by Juniper + Networks.
+ +If threads or signal handlers call fork() and
+ exec(), file descriptors may be passed undesirably to
+ child processes, which may lead to hangs (if a pipe is not
+ closed), exceeding the file descriptor limit and security
+ problems (if the child process has lower privilege). One
+ solution is various new APIs that set the close-on-exec
+ flag atomically with allocating a file descriptor. Some
+ existing software will use the new features if present or will
+ even refuse to compile without them.
Various parts have been present for some time.
+ +In first quarter of 2013, extensions to recvmsg(), + socket(), socketpair() and + posix_openpt() have been added.
+ +Super User's BSD Cross Reference (BXR.SU) is a new source-code + search engine that covers the complete kernel and non-gnu + userland source trees of &os;, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly + BSD.
+ +BXR.SU is optimised to be very fast, has daily updates of all + the trees, and also acts as a deterministic URL shortener.
+ +BXR.SU is based on an OpenGrok fork, but it is more than just + OpenGrok. We have fixed a number of annoyances, eliminated + features that just never worked right from the outright, and + provided integration with tools like CVSweb (including great + mirrors like allbsd.org), &os;'s ViewVC (SVN), as well as GitHub + and Gitweb from git.freebsd.your.org, plus a tad of + other improvements, including a complete rewrite of an mdoc + parser. Last, but definitely not least, is an extensive set of + nginx rewrite rules that makes it a breeze to use BXR.SU as a + deterministic URL compactor for referencing BSD source code. + For example, the http://bxr.su/f/kern/sched_ule.c URL + will automatically redirect to + http://bxr.su/FreeBSD/sys/kern/sched_ule.c through + nginx.
+ +Note that according to the release schedule of BXR.SU, there is + no IPv4 glue until 2013-04-24; otherwise, the service is available + via both IPv4 and IPv6. See the 2013-04-01 announcement on the + freebsd-hackers mailing list for more details.
+ + +In the first quarter of 2013, the &os; Postmaster Team has + implemented the following items that may be interest of the + general public:
+ +The &os; Bugmeister Team are continuing to evaluate options for + alternate bug trackers and have narrowed their choices to two + possibilities: Bugzilla and roundup.
+ +The number of non-ports PRs have remained relatively static over + the last three months, with as many coming in as being closed. + The number of ports PRs have increased recently, largely due to + the ports freeze for the upcoming 8.4-RELEASE.
+ +The Bugmeister team continue work on trying to make the contents + of the GNATS PR database cleaner, more accessible and easier for + committers to find and resolve PRs, by tagging PRs to indicate + the areas involved, and by ensuring that there is sufficient + info within each PR to resolve each issue.
+ +As always, anybody interested in helping out with the PR queue is + welcome to join us in #freebsd-bugbusters on EFnet. We + are always looking for additional help, whether your interests + lie in triaging incoming PRs, generating patches to resolve + existing problems, or simply helping with the database + housekeeping (identifying duplicate PRs, ones that have already + been resolved, etc). This is a great way of getting more + involved with &os;!
+ + +In &os;, timers are provided by the callout facility, which + allows to register a function with an argument to be called at + specified future time. The subsystem suffered of some problems, + such as the impossibility of handling high-resolution events or + its inherent periodic structure, which may lead to spurious + wakeups and higher power consumptions. Some consumers, such as + high-speed networking, VoIP and other real-time applications + need a better precision than the one currently allowed. Also, + especially with the ubiquity of laptops in the last years, the + energy wasted by interrupts waking CPUs from sleep may be a + sensitive factor. Recent changes in the subsystem addressed + those long standing issues as well as introduced a new + programming interface to take advantage of the new features.
+ + +We are proud to announce &os; Haskell Team has updated existing + ports to their latest stable versions. We also added number of + new ports, which brings the count of Haskell ports in &os; ports + tree to more than 400, featuring many popular software, e.g. + xmonad, git-annex, pandoc or various + web framework implementations. All of these updates will be + available as part of the upcoming 8.4-RELEASE. We also came to + know that Haskell ports are also being used successfully on + DragonFlyBSD's dports tree.
+ +In our development repository, there was some optional support + added for LLVM-based code generation using the GHC LLVM backend. + This works mostly on &os; too, though some of the ports would + need fixing so it is still considered experimental.
+ + +FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE-p2 will hit Sourceforge the second week + of April, and should end up as the last FreeNAS release based on + &os; 8.X It's currently the only Free Open Source NAS + product available with any form of ZFS encryption (provided by + GELI).
+ + +There is an ongoing work to improve the documentation + infrastructure and modernize our documentation toolchain. The + work can be found in the xml-tools branch and is very near to + completion. The improvements include the following:
+ +The changes eliminate some dependencies and switch the doc + repository to a real XML toolchain with proper validation and + more advanced rendering tools. The only exceptions are Jade and + the DSSSL stylesheets, which are still needed for printed + output.
+ + +The GNOME/&os; Team has recently merged glib 2.34, Gtk+ 2.24.17 + and Gtk+ 3.6.4 into ports, the C++ bindings also have got + updates. In additional "low-level" GNOME ports received + updates, like libsoup, gobject-introspection, atk and vala for + example. The telepathy stack and empathy where also + updated.
+ +The USE_GNOME macro has received support for + :run and :build targets thanks to Jeremy + Messenger (mezz). Currently only libxml2 and libxslt support + these targets.
+ +USE_GNOME=pkgconfig is being deprecated in favor of + USE_PKGCONFIG=build. The former also adds a run + dependency on pkg-config, which is not required. A first pass + was done to get rid of this in the glib update to 2.34. In + cooperation with the X11 Team the usage of + USE_GNOME=pkgconfig in X components will be removed. + After the fallout from this is handled and stranglers are + converted the USE_GNOME option will be removed.
+ +In addition USE_GNOME=gnomehack is deprecated and + should not be used. Please replace it with + USES=pathfix.
+ +The GNOME development repository has switched from CVS to SVN. + CVS will not get any more updates. Uses can get a new version + of the marcusmerge + script that supports SVN from its home page, and should remove + the old CVS checkout "ports" dir.
+ + + +On-going efforts:
+ +If you want to help with keeping the documentation updated or + helping out in other ways, even if it only parts for the + Glib/Gtk/GNOME stack you are interested in, please contact + us!
+ + +The KDE/&os; Team is very proud to have Schaich Alonso (aschai) + joining the team. Welcome!
+ +The KDE/&os; Team have continued to improve the experience of + KDE software and Qt under &os;. The latest round of improvements + include:
+ +The team has also made many releases and upstreamed many fixes + and patches. The latest round of releases include:
+ +As a result — according to PortScout — we have 431 + ports, of which 93.5% (from 91%) are up-to-date.
+ +The team is always looking for more testers and porters so + please contact us and visit our home page.
+ + +Some work on the performance of UFS/FFS has been recently + committed to HEAD. The purpose of the corresponding change to + the FFS layout policy is to reduce the running time for a full + file system check. It also reduces the random access time for + large files and speeds up the traversal time for directory tree + walks.
+ +The key idea is to reserve a small area in each cylinder group + immediately following the inode blocks for the use of metadata, + specifically indirect blocks and directory contents. The new + policy is to preferentially place metadata in the metadata area + and everything else in the blocks that follow the metadata + area.
+ +The size of this area can be set when creating a filesystem + using newfs(8) or changed in an existing filesystem using + tunefs(8). Both utilities use the -k + held-for-metadata-blocks option to specify the amount of + space to be held for metadata blocks in each cylinder group. By + default, newfs(8) sets this area to half of minfree + (typically 4% of the data area).
+ +As with all layout policies, it only affect layouts of things + allocated after it is put in place. So these changes will + primarily be noticable on newly created file systems.
+ +File system checks has been sped up by caching the cylinder
+ group maps in pass1 so that they do not need to be read again in
+ pass5. As this nearly doubles the memory requirement for
+ fsck(8), the cache is thrown away if other memory needs
+ in fsck(8) would otherwise fail. Thus, the memory
+ footprint of fsck(8) remains unchanged in memory
+ constrained environments. This optimization will be evident on
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Return-Path: This page outlines the components of the FreeBSD Documentation Set, and
the sort of work that the Documentation Project does with them. The project uses SGML for the documentation. This page
- outlines how this is accomplished, and directs the interested reader to
- further SGML resources. Submitting documentation is the best way to become a part of the
From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 9 17:44:48 2013
Return-Path: Build
+ Build
Your Own FreeBSD Update Server (freebsd-update-server) CVSup
- Advanced Points (cvsup-advanced)
Hintergrundwissen zu BSD (explaining-bsd) The &os; Foundation is pleased to announce Ed
+ Maste's new role as the Foundation's part-time Director of
+ Project Development. Ed has served on the Foundation's
+ board for two years, and has stepped down in order to
+ accept this new position. Het Primaire Uitgavebeheerteam is onder andere verantwoordelijk
voor het maken en publiceren van uitgaveschema's voor officile
projectuitgaven van &os;, het aankondigen van code freezes en het
- beheren van SGML and the Documentation Project
-
- Submitting Documentation
Der Einsatz eines FreeBSD Update-Servers erlaubt es
Systemadministratoren, Updates fr mehrere Maschinen
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- Ein Artikel, der die Feinheiten von CVSup beschreibt.
Eine Antwort auf die Frage: "Was ist BSD?"RELENG_*
-takken. De releng/*-takken. De richtlijnen van het uitgave engineering
team geven een gedetailleerdere beschrijving van de plichten en
verantwoordelijkheden van het Primaire Uitgavebeheerteam.
+
Bouwers Uitgavebeheerteam
@@ -206,12 +215,10 @@
href="mailto:denise@ixsystems.com">denise@ixsystems.com
De Clusterbeheerders zijn de mensen die verantwoordelijk zijn voor het beheren van de machines waarvan het project afhankelijk is voor het gesynchroniseerd zijn van haar gedistribueerde werk en communicatie. Het zijn vooral de mensen die fysieke toegang tot de servers hebben. Zaken aangaande de infrastructuur van het project of het installeren van nieuwe - machines dienen aan de clusterbeheerders te worden gericht.
+ machines dienen aan de clusterbeheerders te worden gericht. Dit team + wordt geleidt door het Hoofd Clusterbeheerder wiens taken en + verantwoordelijkheden in meer detail staan beschreven in het handvest clusterbeheer.Bezoek het FTP-archief + om oude uitgaven te downloaden.
+ΤˡBSD Unix (ȡäȹϤʰ̣Ǥ &unix;) ˴ؤҤϤ¸ߤޤ FreeBSD ˤ FreeBSD ʤäʵǽ³ - ޤ -
+ ޤ˲äơ Unix-like ʥڥ졼ƥƥ˿Τ FreeBSD ƤȤ桼⤿¸ߤޤ Ǥ顢 - ɤΤʥɥơѲǽǤ뤳ȤäȤڤʤΤǤ -
+ ɤΤʥɥơѲǽǤ뤳ȤäȤڤʤΤǤFreeBSD ɥơץȤϡ 桼γ֤Τ뤿¸ߤޤ @@ -42,8 +40,7 @@
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ɥơץȤΥФϡ FreeBSD ɥơκۤ乽ˤĤƵ @@ -53,21 +50,18 @@
- ʹΥץ+ | ʹΥץߡɥơϤΰĤȤơ ĤץȤʹǤ ꥹȤܤ̤ơ - ʤˤǤ뤳ȤʤɤĴ٤ƤߤƤ - |
+ ʤˤǤ뤳ȤʤɤĴ٤ƤߤƤ
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Welke applicatie u ook gebruikt, u wilt dat de mogelijkheden - van uw systeem maximaal gebruikt worden. De focus van &os; op - prestatie, netwerk, en opslag gaan samen met eenvoudig systeemonderhoud - en uitstekende documentatie om u in staat te stellen om precies - dat te doen.
+Welke applicatie u ook gebruikt, een besturingssysteem moet alle + beschikbare bronnen gebruiken. De focus van &os; op prestatie, netwerk, + en opslag gaan samen met eenvoudig systeemonderhoud en uitstekende + documentatie om het maximale uit elke computer te halen.
De wortels van &os; liggen bij de BSD - software-uitgaven van de Computer Systems Research Group aan de - University of California, Berkeley. Er is meer dan tien jaar - werk besteed aan het verbeteren van BSD, het toevoegen van - industrieleidende SMP, multithreading en netwerkprestatie, alsmede - aan nieuwe beheergereedschappen, bestandssystemen, en - beveiligingsmogelijkheden. Als resultaat hiervan kan &os; overal - op het Internet, in het besturingssysteem van kernrouterproducten, - in draaiende rootnaamservers, voor het hosten van grote websites, - en als de basis van veelgebruikte besturingssystemen voor het bureau - gevonden worden. Dit is alleen mogelijk vanwege het diverse en - wereldwijde lidmaatschap van het vrijwillige &os; Project.
- -&os; 7.0, uitgegeven in februari 2008, brengt vele nieuwe - mogelijkheden en prestatieverbeteringen. Met een speciale focus op - de prestatie van opslag en multiprocessing werd &os; 7.0 geleverd - met ondersteuning van Sun's ZFS-bestandssysteem en hoog - schaalbare multiprocessing prestaties. Benchmarks hebben - aangetoond dat &os; tweemaal de prestatie van MySQL en PostgreSQL biedt - als huidige Linux-systemen op 8-core servers.
- -&os; heeft een lange geschiedenis van ontwikkeling van geavanceerde - mogelijkheden van besturingssystemen; enkele van deze mogelijkheden - staan hieronder:
- -De &os; ontwikkelaars zijn net zo bezig met beveiliging als - met prestaties en stabiliteit. &os; bevat - kernelondersteuning voor stateful IP firewalling en ook - voor andere diensten als IP proxy gateways, - toegangscontrolelijsten, verplichte toegangscontrole, - jail-gebaseerde virtuele hosting en cryptografisch - beschermde opslag. Hiermee is het mogelijk om veilig - meerdere klanten of consumenten van dienst te zijn die elkaar - wederzijds niet vertrouwen, netwerksegmenten scherp te - partitioneren en veilige pipelines te maken voor informatie - scrubbing en informatie flow-beheer.
- -&os; biedt ook ondersteuning voor encryptiesoftware, secure - shells, Kerberos-authenticatie, "virtuele servers" gemaakt met - jails, het chroot-en van diensten om applicatietoegang tot - het bestandssysteem te beperken, Secure RPC mogelijkheden en - toegangslijsten voor diensten die TCP wrappers ondersteunen.
- +De wortels van &os; liggen bij de BSD software-uitgaven van de + Computer Systems Research Group aan de University of California, + Berkeley. Er is meer dan twintig jaar werk besteed aan het verbeteren + van &os;, het toevoegen van industrieleidende schaalbaarheid, + netwerkprestatie, beheergereedschappen, bestandssystemen, en + beveiligingsmogelijkheden. Als resultaat hiervan kan &os; overal + op het Internet, in het besturingssysteem van kernrouterproducten, + in draaiende rootnaamservers, voor het hosten van grote websites, + en als de basis van veelgebruikte besturingssystemen voor het bureau + gevonden worden. Dit is alleen mogelijk vanwege het diverse en + wereldwijde lidmaatschap van het vrijwillige &os; Project.
+ +&os; 9.0 biedt vele nieuwe mogelijkheden en + prestatieverbeteringen met een speciale focus op desktop-ondersteuning + en beveiliging.
+ +&os; 8.X bracht vele nieuwe mogelijkheden en + prestatieverbeteringen. Met een speciale focus op een nieuwe + USB-stack, kwam &os;-8.X ook met experimentele ondersteuning voor + NFSv4. Er werd een nieuwe TTY-laag gentroduceerd, welke de + schaalbaarheid en bronbeheer in systemen met SMP verbetert.
+ +Highlights from this status report include the busy preparations - of 8.4-RELEASE, steady progress of several porting efforts, like - work on the &os; ports of xorg, GNOME, KDE, and Xfce, bringing - &os; to Cubieboard and Hackberry boards, development of ARM and - AMD GPU support, improving performance of UFS/FFS and callouts, - and introducing a multipath TCP implementation for the network - stack.
+ of 8.4-RELEASE, restoration of binary package building, steady + progress of several porting efforts, like work on the &os; ports + of xorg, GNOME, KDE, and Xfce, bringing &os; to Cubieboard and + Hackberry boards, development of ARM and AMD GPU support, + improving performance of UFS/FFS and callouts, and introducing a + multipath TCP implementation for the network stack.Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 30 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.
The deadline for submissions covering the period between April - and June 2013 is July 14th, 2013.
+ and June 2013 is July 7th, 2013.The Core Team approved using Google Analytics on the Project - web site to enable the Documentation Engineering Team to collect - statistics on its usage for better profiling.
+At the end of 2012, the Core Team approved using Google + Analytics on the Project web site to enable the Documentation + Engineering Team to collect statistics on its usage for better + profiling. In the first quarter of 2013, the Core Team worked + with the Documentation Engineering Team to finalize the + associated policies.
Due to some debates around the political correctness of quotes added for the fortune(6) utility, the corresponding data file @@ -96,7 +99,7 @@
In light of the security incident, the liaison role between the Core Team and the Security Team has been restored, with Gavin - Atkinson assuming this role. The Core Team works hard on + Atkinson assuming this role. The Core Team work hard on resolving the current situation of the binary package building cluster and the associated security problems in tight cooperation with the Ports Management Team, Cluster @@ -107,8 +110,8 @@
The &os; Project submitted an application for Google Summer of Code this year again.
-In the first quarter, the Core Team granted access for 2 new - committers and took 1 commit bit for safekeeping.
+There was access granted for 2 new committers and 1 commit bit + was taken for safekeeping in this quarter.
@@ -163,7 +166,7 @@ build system.Erwin Lansing (erwin) and Martin Wilke (miwi) took on the - principle roles of getting the portbuild software intalled and + principle roles of getting the portbuild software installed and running on pointyhat. As a result of all their hard work, portmgr@ was finally able to resume doing -exp runs, preparing packages for the upcoming 8.4 release, as well as getting a set @@ -333,8 +336,8 @@ project branch courtesy of Hiroki Sato and the allbsd.org daily snapshot infrastructure.
-We are about to releas a CAIA technical report 130424A entitled
- We are about to release a CAIA technical report 130424A
+ entitled Super User's BSD Cross Reference (BXR.SU) is a new source-code
- search engine that covers the complete kernel and non-gnu
- userland source trees of &os;, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly
+ search engine that covers the complete kernel and non-GNU
+ userland source trees of &os;, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFly
BSD. BXR.SU is optimised to be very fast, has daily updates of all
@@ -606,18 +609,18 @@
specified future time. The subsystem suffered of some problems,
such as the impossibility of handling high-resolution events or
its inherent periodic structure, which may lead to spurious
- wakeups and higher power consumptions. Some consumers, such as
+ wakeups and higher power consumption. Some consumers, such as
high-speed networking, VoIP and other real-time applications
need a better precision than the one currently allowed. Also,
especially with the ubiquity of laptops in the last years, the
energy wasted by interrupts waking CPUs from sleep may be a
sensitive factor. Recent changes in the subsystem addressed
- those long standing issues as well as introduced a new
+ those long-standing issues as well as introduced a new
programming interface to take advantage of the new features. There is an ongoing work to improve the documentation
+ There is an on-going work to improve the documentation
infrastructure and modernize our documentation toolchain. The
- work can be found in the xml-tools branch and is very near to
- completion. The improvements include the following:Design Overview of Multipath TCP version 0.3 for
+
Design Overview of Multipath TCP version 0.3 for
&os; 10
on 2013-04-24 which provides a high-level
design and architecture overview of the v0.3 code release.
The GNOME/&os; Team has recently merged glib 2.34, Gtk+ 2.24.17 +
The GNOME/&os; Team has recently merged Glib 2.34, Gtk+ 2.24.17 and Gtk+ 3.6.4 into ports, the C++ bindings also have got updates. In additional "low-level" GNOME ports received updates, like libsoup, gobject-introspection, atk and vala for @@ -815,11 +819,11 @@
USE_GNOME=pkgconfig is being deprecated in favor of USE_PKGCONFIG=build. The former also adds a run dependency on pkg-config, which is not required. A first pass - was done to get rid of this in the glib update to 2.34. In - cooperation with the X11 Team the usage of + was done to get rid of this in the Glib update to 2.34. In + cooperation with the X11 Team, the usage of USE_GNOME=pkgconfig in X components will be removed. After the fallout from this is handled and stranglers are - converted the USE_GNOME option will be removed.
+ converted, the USE_GNOME option will be removed.In addition USE_GNOME=gnomehack is deprecated and should not be used. Please replace it with @@ -833,9 +837,9 @@ the old CVS checkout "ports" dir.
On-going efforts:
@@ -862,9 +866,9 @@The team has also made many releases and upstreamed many fixes +
The Team have also made many releases and upstreamed many fixes and patches. The latest round of releases include:
As a result — according to PortScout — we have 431 ports, of which 93.5% (from 91%) are up-to-date.
-The team is always looking for more testers and porters so +
The Team are always looking for more testers and porters so please contact us and visit our home page.
@@ -948,7 +952,7 @@File system checks has been sped up by caching the cylinder +
File system checks have been sped up by caching the cylinder group maps in pass1 so that they do not need to be read again in pass5. As this nearly doubles the memory requirement for fsck(8), the cache is thrown away if other memory needs @@ -1103,9 +1107,9 @@ it.
In its current state, the driver allows to have a simple X
- session (no OpenGL), run common applications, watch movies, change
- the resolution and enable additionnal monitors with
+ session (no OpenGL), run common applications, watch movies,
+ change the resolution and enable additional monitors with
xrandr(1). The most blocking issue now is the OpenGL
deadlock which prevents to run modern compositors/desktop
environment, games and WebGL demos. We are not ready for a
@@ -1181,7 +1185,7 @@
Current support status:
@@ -1306,17 +1310,17 @@ FreeBSD 8.4 is released and the ports tree is reopened for commits. -Work is also ongoing to port new versions of MESA and OpenGL, - as well as a new version of xorg-server, and perhaps in the future - wayland. These are considered more long-term goals and are not - targeted for the current update.
+Work is also on-going to port new versions of MESA and OpenGL, + as well as a new version of xorg-server, and perhaps in the + future, Wayland. These are considered more long-term goals and + are not targeted for the current update.
Focus of the project was extended to also include a new iSCSI initiator. Compared to the old one, it is more reliable, much more user-friendly, and somewhat faster. It uses exactly the - same configuration file format as the old one, to make migration + same configuration file format as the old one to make migration easier.
As for the target side, it was verified to work properly @@ -1503,7 +1507,7 @@
-The Xfce &os; Team has updated many ports, specially:
+The Xfce &os; Team has updated many ports, especially:
The -STABLE branch tags have names like RELENG_9. The corresponding builds have - names like FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE.
Each FreeBSD Release has an associated Security Branch. - The Security Branch tags have names like RELENG_9_0. + The Security Branch tags have names like RELENG_9_1. The corresponding builds have names like FreeBSD - 9.0-RELEASE-p1.
Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 30 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.
+ contains 31 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.The deadline for submissions covering the period between April and June 2013 is July 7th, 2013.
@@ -1618,4 +1618,45 @@mdoc.su is a deterministic URL + shortener for BSD manual pages, written entirely in + nginx.conf.
+ +Since the original announcement, OS version support has been + added (e.g. /f91/ and /FreeBSD-9.1/ etc.), as + well as dynamic multi-flavour web-pages with multiple links + (e.g. http://mdoc.su/f,d/ifnet.9 and + http://mdoc.su/-/mdoc), which even let you specify the + versions too (e.g. http://mdoc.su/f91,n60,o52,d/mdoc).
+ +The source code for the whole site is available under a BSD + licence.
+ + +