From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 22:34:57 2014
Return-Path: Deficiencies in the current automounter, amd(8), are a
- recurring problem reported by many FreeBSD users. A new
+ recurring problem reported by many &os; users. A new
automounter is being developed to address these concerns. The automounter is a cleanroom implementation of
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
Building on the new in-kernel iSCSI target and initiator stack
- released in FreeBSD 10.0, Chelsio Communications has begun
+ released in &os; 10.0, Chelsio Communications has begun
developing an offload interface to take advantage of the
hardware offload capabilities of Chelsio T4 and T5 10 and 40
gigabit Ethernet adapters.
Complete testing
Lucas is working on a series of small FreeBSD books. The +
Lucas is working on a series of small &os; books. The
first one, FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials, is underway,
and covers GEOM, gpart, MBR, UFS, GELI, GBDE, disk sector
alignment, and more. You can pre-order the book at a discount
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
Lucas needs to write faster. Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and
- Unix-like platforms including FreeBSD. It aims to be fast and
+ Unix-like platforms including &os;. It aims to be fast and
lightweight while still being visually appealing and easy to
use. ZFS is one of the premier features of FreeBSD and the quality
+ ZFS is one of the premier features of &os; and the quality
of the documentation should match that of other important
features. Much of the original documentation from Sun and
Oracle has disappeared, moved, or is about the proprietary
version of ZFS. The OpenZFS project does not provide much
documentation and instead provides users with a few links,
- including the FreeBSD Handbook. New users have many questions
+ including the &os; Handbook. New users have many questions
about ZFS and yet there exists a great deal more bad advice
about ZFS than proper documentation. After over a year of work, a new ZFS chapter has been added
- to the FreeBSD Handbook. Over 20,000 words describing the
+ to the &os; Handbook. Over 20,000 words describing the
basics of creating, managing and maintaining a ZFS pool, as
well as using some of the advanced features like compression,
deduplication, and delegation. The chapter also contains a
@@ -387,18 +387,18 @@
Technical review by Matt Ahrens (co-creator of ZFS) Improve delegation section Improve tuning section, add recently added sysctls Add section on jails and the jailed property Add FAQ section Add Use Cases section General editing and review In May, &a.rodrigc; led a working group Continuous
- Integration and Testing with Jenkins for FreeBSD at the
- FreeBSD Devsummit in Ottawa. &a.rodrigc; also gave a Jenkins
+ Integration and Testing with Jenkins for &os; at the
+ &os; Devsummit in Ottawa. &a.rodrigc; also gave a Jenkins
presentation at BSDCan. At BSDCan, &a.rodrigc; had some discussions with &a.jmmv;
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@
eliminate some test failures. One of the tests still results
in a crash in byacc. This is being tracked in PR 193499.
Thomas E. Dickey (byacc maintainer) submitted a patch to fix
- the problem, and this has been committed to FreeBSD. &a.rodrigc; analyzed the cause of some startup errors in
Jenkins when opening a multicast socket. He had some
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@
open an IPv4 multicast socket, but with an IPv4 multicast
address mapped to an IPv6 address. On Linux, there are
modifications to the JDK itself to work around this. &a.bms;
- said that the work to make the FreeBSD IPv6 stack behave like
+ said that the work to make the &os; IPv6 stack behave like
Solaris would require some work. &a.rodrigc; started writing a Kyua Quickstart Guide. This
@@ -508,28 +508,28 @@
Upstream more fixes to Jenkins for &os;, such as JNA fixes. Automate the build of /usr/tests. Set up more builds based on examples from the existing &os;
+ Tinderbox. Get feedback for improving the Kyua Quickstart Guide. We need more people to join us on freebsd-testing@FreeBSD.org
and help out. We especially need people with devops and
scripting experience to help us set up more builds and tests.
We would also like to integrate with other parts of the
- project, such as Phabricator.
+ project, such as Phabricator. The LLVM address sanitizer (Asan) has been ported to &os;.
The mainline version of LLVM is known to pass all unit and lit
- Asan tests without unexpected failures on FreeBSD 10.0.
A buildbot running sanitizers tests under FreeBSD stable/10 +
A buildbot running sanitizers tests under &os; stable/10 has been established. See the Links section.
In order to make it possible to run programs with sanitizers - checks enabled on FreeBSD a new kernel state named + checks enabled on &os; a new kernel state named kern.proc_vmmap_skip_resident_count has been added. See the Links section.
Note that running Asan tests on stable/10 requires that state to be set to 1.
-A similar work dedicated to add FreeBSD support to the thread +
A similar work dedicated to add &os; support to the thread sanitizer (Tsan) is in progress.
This is a Google Summer of code project that aims to provide
- a noninteractive FreeBSD installation from the network. In
+ a noninteractive &os; installation from the network. In
the first part, an implementation was added for scripted
bsdinstall(8). It supports variables like: KEYMAP,
HOSTNAME, MIRROR, RELEASE, TIMEZONE, DAEMONS, ROOTPWHASH, and
@@ -616,20 +616,20 @@
Documentation, including a howto and handbook. The project
needs more tests in different configurations. Support for
- more than one network interface is planned.
+ more than one network interface is planned.
GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. GNOME is part of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unix-like - operating systems, including FreeBSD.
+ operating systems, including &os;.The MATE ports were updated to the 1.8 versions.
@@ -661,8 +661,8 @@Finish GNOME 3.12 merge, and start tracking GNOME 3.15 + (development series).
The old graphics stack will be removed with the next update to these ports. See the announcement in the Links @@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ Mesa. The latest version is already available from our development ports tree (see the links section).
-Cairo was updated to 1.12. This will allow the FreeBSD GNOME +
Cairo was updated to 1.12. This will allow the &os; GNOME team to upgrade pango and Gtk+ 3. Unfortunately, the update also revealed that xf86-video-intel 2.7.1 was in a much worse state than previously assumed.
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date information.
The FreeBSD Python team continued to improve the overall - experience with Python-based software on FreeBSD.
+The &os; Python team continued to improve the overall + experience with Python-based software on &os;.
During the last quarter, the bsd.python.mk bits of
the ports infrastructure were converted to the more modern
@@ -852,15 +852,15 @@
Retire the Python 3 specific port duplicates Convert ports to the new USES syntax More tasks can be found on the team's wiki page (see
+ Links). To get involved, interested people can say hello on IRC
+ and let us know their areas of interest!