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FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 Available

Tuesday, July 07 2009 @ 11:08 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 is available. From the mailing list announcement::
The first public test build of the FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE test cycle is now available, 8.0-BETA1. Through the next week or so more information about the release will be posted but here is the current target schedule for the other 'major events':

BETA2: July 13, 2009
BETA3: July 20, 2009
RC1: July 27, 2009
RC2: August 17, 2009
RELEASE:August 31, 2009

People with the resources to do so (test machines...) are encouraged to give 8.0-BETA1 a try. At this point it is not quite ready for production systems but mostly because there is still some ongoing work
in a few areas that may cause some changes in things like ABI/API. Debugging support (WITNESS, malloc debugging, etc.) are also still turned on and those tend to cause a performance hit. As far as we know
there are no known issues that would cause data corruption or anything like that, just the issues with performance and potential for changes caused by ongoing work. If you find problems they can be reported through the normal Gnats based PR system or posted to the mailing lists.

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AmigaForever 2009 released

Saturday, July 04 2009 @ 14:30 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 74

Here is a bit of nostalgic news for you: AmigaForever 2009 has been released. AmigaForever is a very full-featured AmigaOS emulation tool, packed with various different ROMs and AmigaOS versions (1.3-3.x), as well as tons and tons of included games, software, and demos. This new version comes with even more stuff. Cool!
(first seen on OSNews)

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Contiki 2.3 released

Sunday, June 28 2009 @ 12:19 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 86

Contiki 2.3 have been released. This version brings a new IPv6 routing layer, IPv6/6lowpan for the Tmote Sky platform, the Cooja TimeLine, a set of new shell commands, improvements to the LPP and X-MAC power-saving radio protocols, a new port to the MSB430 platform, and a Twitter client. Cool!
(first seen on OSnews)

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NetBSD on a Sun SPARCstation 2

Tuesday, June 16 2009 @ 22:50 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 118

Inspired by the success with my Ultra 1, I brushed the dust off another old machine: the Sun SPARCstation 2. Mine is actually labeled "Nokia Data" "Alfaskop S30". Anyway, after a bit off fiddling, I got it to boot (the logs shows that it was last booted in September 2002!). It turns out that it runs NetBSD:

root@sparc2# uname -a
NetBSD sparc2.kg4.no 1.5.2 NetBSD 1.5.2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Aug 22 04:33:09 CST 2001     toor@proxima:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC sparc

Way, way cool.

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Quick tip: Sun SPARCstation 2 - fix invalid IDPROM data

Tuesday, June 16 2009 @ 21:37 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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If your Sun SPARCstation 2 boots up and says "IDPROM data invalid" or some such, you can have problem operating it, because the IDPROM conations the ethernet address and Hostid. Luckily, the Sun NVRAM/Hostid faq have answers. To fix the problem, you do like this:

Hit ``n'' to get the new openboot prompt
setenv diag-switch? false
f idprom@ 1 xor f mkp (this will invalidate the checkum in the idprom)
8 0 20 0e c1 62 0ec162 mkpl (hit enter)
Hit ctrl-D then ctrl-R, if you do NOT see a Sun Copyright notice, it worked, otherwise it failed.
That's it

Oh, if it doesn't work the first time, try again. And - if the battery on you SPARCstation 2 is dead you will have to do this every time the machine has been switched off.

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FreeBSD 7.2 on a Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3D

Monday, June 15 2009 @ 00:32 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 167

The last time I installed anything on my Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3D, I had to do it with netbooting. I was more lucky this time - the machine now has a working cd-rom drive. The install was easy enoujgh; download the correct cd image, burn it, and boot the ultra 1 from the cd. Then follow the normal FreeBSD installation with sysinstall. The machine now runs FreeBSD 7.2-release:

root@ultra1# uname -a
FreeBSD ultra1.kg4.no 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Sat May  2 08:25:23 UTC 2009     root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  sparc64

Way cool.
Other articles about the Ultra 1:
OpenBSD 3.6 on a Sun Ultra 1E Creator3D
Getting XFree86 working on a Sun Ultra 1E Creator3D

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Unix - happy 40 years!

Monday, June 08 2009 @ 21:31 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 115

Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS: "the beauty of Unix then (if not now) lay in its less-is-more philosophy.".
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OpenSolaris 2009.06

Saturday, June 06 2009 @ 10:15 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 103

OpenSolaris 2009.06 is here. This new release comes packed with new features, changes, improvements, and fixes, and is the first release of OpenSolaris for SPARC, adding support for UltraSPARC T1, T2 (Sun4v), and UltraSPARC II, III and IV (Sun4u). Read what's new in Opensolaris 2009.06. Some very interesting news are:

Crossbow - network virtualization
Time Slider Snapshot Management
Elisa media centre, as SUNWgnome-media-center

Read on for more.

(first seen on OSnews)

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XPL0

Sunday, May 31 2009 @ 00:33 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 107

The XPL0 programming language is a computer programming language that is essentially a cross between Pascal and C. It was created in 1976 by Peter J. R. Boyle who wanted a high-level language for his microcomputer and wanted something more sophisticated than BASIC, which was the dominant language for personal computers at the time.

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FreeBSD 7-STABLE: now with ZFS version 13

Monday, May 25 2009 @ 12:41 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 136

On May 20th, 2009 ZFS version 13 was merged into FreeBSD 7-stable. Things brings in a lot of new goodies:

zfs boot for all pool types now works
kmem now goes up to 512GB so arc is now limited by physmem
the arc now experiences backpressure from the vm - this allows ZFS to work without any tunables on amd64
Level 2 cache for ZFS - allows to use additional disks for cache

and more. Nice progress.
(first seen on OSnews)

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