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Displaymanager gesucht als Alternative zu xdm

Errorsmith — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:22:44 GMT

Moin!

Ich teste gerade Displaymanager als Ersatz f�r xdm bzw. slim.

Bisher habe ich slim benutzt, der hat aber den Nachteil das er relativ alt ist und mit der sessionverwaltung nicht umgehen kann. Im Resultat kann ich - solange ich slim benutze - den Rechner nicht als User herunterfahen. Als Nachfolger wird lxdm empfohlen, aber der ist nicht in den Ports.

xdm tut was er soll, sieht aber nicht so toll aus ;)

kdm und gdm scheiden aus, die sind zuviel f�r den �lteren Rechner auf dem das laufen soll, zumal ich da weder gnome noch kde drauf installieren werde, auch keine der dazugeh�rigen Anwendungen. (Die Kiste wird eigentlich nur zum surfen & Musikabspielen benutzt.)

Generell scheinen nicht allzuviele displaymanger in den Ports zu sein. Welche kleinen und schlanken Alternativen habe ich noch?

Gr��e,
Errorsmith

Backup L�sung f�r heterogene Umgebung

minimike — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:45:06 GMT

Hi

Ich fange wahrscheinlich n�chste Woche einen neuen Job an. Meine Aufgabe wird sein den Entwicklern das Spielzeug aus der Hand zu nehmen und eine Abteilung f�r die reine Administration aufzubauen. Sobald ich da die Hoheit �bernommen habe kommt schon gleich das erste Projekt am Zug. Eine Backupl�sung f�r alle Server und Desktopclients im B�ro.
Die Landschaft ist wirklich Leipziger Allerlei. Von Windows XP bis Windows 8 �ber Mac OS von Leopard bis Lion. Und was da mit Linux rumsteht muss ich auch noch rausfinden.

Ich rechne aber bei 40 Clients schon im Terrabyte Bereich f�r die Angelegenheit. Darum soll das ganze schon mit ZFS an den Start kommen. Zudem will ich da langfristig durch die gute Arbeit mit FreeBSD punkten um auch eine Vereinheitlichung zu erzielen. Und die MS Ad Struktur will ich nicht sofort aber auch langfristig mit Samba 4 und Apache DS �ber Board werfen.

Derzeit denke an Backula ich habe bisher davon nur gelesen. Werde mich daher wohl einarbeiten. BackupPC kenne ich sehr gut halte ich aber f�r ungeeignet. Das ist fehleranf�llig und provoziert zu viele Fehler. Aber was w�re sonst noch zu empfehlen? Und vor allem muss ich bei ZFS noch was konfigurieren um die ACL's und andere Dateiatribute von Windows, OSX und Linux in den Backups zu erhalten?

Danke f�r eure Beitr�ge :)

BSD-F�rderverein

fussel — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:30:55 GMT

Moin Moin,

wie geht es eigentlich der Idee des BSD-F�rdervereins?
Wird daran noch gearbeitet?
Wenn nicht, woran mangelt es?

Gru�
fussel

jgillich

jgillich — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:30:10 GMT

Bitte um Freischaltung. ;)

FreeBSD Server als Domain Controller

bungle — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:37:13 GMT

Hallo,

ich habe vor in unser Firmennetzwerk (WinXp Win7 Clients) einen FreeBSD Server als Domain Controller einzusetzten. K�nnt ihr mir das empfehlen oder werde ich da im Betrieb auf gro�e Probleme sto�en?

Gibt es f�r FreeBSD auch eine Groupware like Microsoft Exchange Server?

Gr��e Bungle

[HTML/CSS] H�he von DIVs automatisch anpassen

martin — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:33:29 GMT

Hi

ich bin gerade etwas am Experimentieren mit DIVs und min-height, max-height usw. Eigentlich wollte ich mit etwas ganz Banalem beginnen, doch ich h�nge schon fest und wei� nicht weiter. Was ich machen m�chte, ist eine einfache Seite die 2Header hat (Position immer am Kopf der Seite, Gr��e statisch), 2 "Inhaltsbereiche" die ihre Gr��e dynamisch je nach Gr��e des Browserfensters �ndern sollen, und eine Fusszeile, die wiederum in ihrer Gr��e statisch bleibt, sich aber immer am untersten Bildrand befinden soll.

Hier mal etwas Code von meinem ersten Versuch:

PHP-Code:


		
			
<html>
<head>
    
    <style>
        
        html, body
        {
            margin: 0;
            padding: 0;
        }
        
        .rahmen {
            border: 1px solid red;
        }

        .titel {
            width: 100%;
            height: 99px;
            color: white;
            background-color: #0e3852;
        }
        
        .titel2 {
            top: 100px; 
            width: 100%;
            height: 60px;
            color: black;
        }
        
        .links {
            width:200px;
            min-height: 400px;
            overflow: auto;
        }
        
        .rechts {
            min-width: 500px;
            min-height: 400px;
            background-color: white;
        }
        
        .fusszeile {
            width: 100%;
            height: 30px;
            color: white;
            background-color: #0e3852;
        }

        
    style>    
    
head>
<body height="100%">

<div class="rahmen" style="min-height:100%;background-color: #edf3fa;">    
    
    <div class="rahmen titel">Titel - Dunkel mit Bilddiv>
    <div class="rahmen titel2">Titel2 - Logo und Men�div>    
    
    <div style="position:static;">
        
        <div class="rahmen links" style="position:absolute;left:0px;">Linke Seite - Men�2div>
        <div class="rahmen rechts" style="position:absolute;left:200px;">Rechte Seite - Hauptfensterdiv>
    
    div>
    
    
    <div class="rahmen fusszeile">Fusszeilediv>

div>    
    
body>
html>

Irgendwie schaffe ich es nicht die H�he der beiden InhaltsDIVs an die H�he des Browserfensters anzupassen und somit auch nicht die Fusszeile an das Ende der Seite zu plazieren. Wenn ich mit min-height: 100% arbeite, wird das DIV immer gleich gro� wie das komplette Fenster, ich m�chte aber, dass es so gro� wird wie die Fensterh�he minus die H�hen der anderen DIVs. :ugly:

Ich hoffe ich habe mich halbwegs verst�ndlich ausgedr�ckt. Geht mein Vorhaben �berhaupt ohne javascript?

thx

The age of 1337 has begun....

Athaba — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:28:13 GMT

Gerade auf DuckDuckGo als Doodle gesehen, dass wir Unixzeitm��ig auf 1337 sind und, da es gerade sonst nichts zu feiern gibt. Happy 1337! :ugly:

ZFS und ECC-Ram

jmt — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:03:28 GMT

Hallo,

stimmt es eigentlich, dass ein ZFS-Pool durch Memory-Corruption unbrauchbar werden kann? Es gibt immer wieder Threads in den FreeBSD-Foren, die den Einsatz von ECC-Ram nahe legen. Welche "Gefahren" entstehen denn durch den Einsatz von normalen Speicher? Damit mein ich prim�r, ob die Auswirkungen schwerer wiegen als z.B bei UFS.

Danke Schon einmal f�r alle n�tzlichen Hinweise.:)

Globales LoadBalancing

mark05 — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:40:35 GMT

hi

das ich kein "normales" allgemien gefunden habe schreib ich mal hier,
kann aber gerne verschoben werden.

zz schau ich mit diverse loesungen an wie ich 2 oder mehr rechennzentren
redundant machen kann.

dier eine weg ist via BGP was aber eingentlich fast nur noch mit ipv6 machbar ist
das die huerden mittlerweile sehr hoch sind um eine ipv4 netz samt as zu bekommen.

alterntiv gibt es globales loadbalancing mit und ohne geoip.

in dem bereich tummeln sich viele hersteller und cloud dienste.

im opensource bereich gibt es da nicht viel , oder ich suche falsch , habe mit

glbdns ein perl dns server gefunden der im prinzip das kann was ich mir
zz vorstelle , anhand von prioritaet und verfuegbarkeit ein entsprechende
dns antwort geben .

wer kennt loesungen bzw wie kann man alternativ bei dem thema vorgehen ohne gleich die geldboerse massivst zu pluendern.

holger

Soekris wlan box

littlebit — Sun, 13 May 2012 16:41:19 GMT

Hallo Leute,

ich habe mir eine soekris 5510 gekauft und habe vor die als wlan AP zu konfigurieren. Neben einer sicheren wlan Verschluesselung (WPA/WPA2) soll die kiste auch als DHCP, DNS und HTTP Proxy (squid) konfiguriert werden.
Ich habe bis jetzt versucht die grundlegenden Dinge selber zu machen, dabei habe ich mich darauf konzentriert dass es funktioniert aber nicht darauf geachtet dass es sicher ist.
Meine jetzige Konfiguration ist wie folgt:

Als Wlan habe ich den Hersteller Ralink (RT2561T Chip) gew�hlt, und besetzt die miniPCI Schnittstelle. Ich habe versucht die Wlankarte mit unter der bridge mit unterzubringen aber ohne einer eigenen IP-Addresse w�rde ich keine Wlanverbindung mit den Clients aufbauen k�nnen, daher habe ich ihr eine eigene IP gegeben und hatte keine Probleme. Neben Notebooks, werden auch 2 bis 3 Repeater �ber diese Karte verbunden.
Hier ist der Inhalt der hostname.ral0 Datei:

Code:

inet 10.0.0.2 media autoselect mediaopt hostap nwid mynet chan 1 wpa wpapsk test1234 up

Ueber die NICs vr0,vr1,vr2,vr3 sollen vom dhcpd IP Addressen vom Addressraum 10.0.0.0/24 vergeben werden.Dabei dachte ich mir, ich fasse alle NICs unter einer bridge zusammen und verpasse nur ein NIC eine IP wie 10.0.0.1
Hier ist der Inhalt der hostname.bridge0 Datei:

Code:

add vr0 add vr1 add vr2 add vr3 up

Hier ist der Inhalt der hostname.vr0 Datei:

Code:

inet 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 up

An der PCI Schnittstelle habe ich eine herkoemmliche 3COM (xl0) Netzwerkkarte. Diese Karte soll zur Fritzbox angeschlossen sein, die (Fritzbox) eine DSL-Verbindung aufbaut.
IP-Addresse dieser Karte ist wie folgt: inet 192.168.1.253 255.255.255.0
Da diese die NIC die Verbindung zum Internet herstellt muss dann in deren hostname.if Datei die default route defeniert werden.

Hier ist der Inhalt der hostname.xl0Datei:

Code:

inet 192.168.1.200 255.255.255.0 NONE !route add default 192.168.1.254 !route add -net 10.0.0.0/24 10.0.0.1 !route add -net 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.200

Um NAT zu erm�glichen habe ich diverse Beispiele im Internet gefunden und habe meine Konfiguration (noch nicht ausprobiert) von folgenden Link hergeleitet.
F�rs erste ist mir ein Nacktes NAT wichtig, und da ich jedes mal die Soekris abstecken muss und sie an der Fritzbox anschlie�en muss die sich im Keller befindet habe ich es nicht getestet habe, w�rde ich in diesen Teil um eine kurze Best�tigung bitten ob es funktionieren w�rde oder nicht.

Hier ist der Inhalt der pf.conf Datei:

Code:

IntNet="10.0.0.0/24" Ext="xl0" Int="vr0" nat on $Ext from $IntNet to any -> $Ext static-port

Und ich habe nicht vergessen "net.inet.ip.forwarding" auf 1 zu setzen.

Ich vermute dass ich als Anf�nger ein paar Sachen entweder umst�ndlich gemacht habe, oder wie der L�genbaron "zu Gutenberg" Sachen hier und da Kopiert habe, was ich gleich offen und ehrlich zu gebe. :rolleyes:
Daher wollte ich jeden bitten der sich auskennt, mir zu zeigen wo man es verbessern kann.
Bind und Squid sind jetzt f�r das erste auch nicht wichtig.

Vielen Dank im Voraus an die Community...

FreeBSD Support f�r Hyper-V

minimike — Sun, 13 May 2012 16:36:39 GMT

Hi

Seit mehr als 10 Jahren nutze ich Produkte von VMware. Leider verl�uft die Strategie von VMware nicht so wirklich nach meinen Bed�rfnissen. Was mich an VMware bindet ist unter anderem die sehr gute Unterst�tzung f�r FreeBSD G�ste. OK es muss Compat6 installiert sein damit der Blob l�uft. Aber es stellt mich zufrieden.
Jedenfalls kommt nun eine weitere L�sung f�r unternehmenskritische Anwendungen f�r FreeBSD bald in Betracht. Microsoft arbeitet ja schon seit geraumer Zeit VMware auf dem Markt das Wasser abzugraben. Infolge der Offensive kommt bald vollst�ndige Unterst�tzung f�r FreeBSD hinzu :)

http://blogs.technet.com/b/openness/...r-hyper-v.aspx

F�r mich verspricht das ich g�nstigere Hardware kaufen kann ohne Leistungseinbu�en in Kauf nehmen zu m�ssen, sowie auch etwas mehr an Flexibilit�t.

Bhyve w�hre mir am liebsten. Aber mal ehrlich, das steckt noch alles in den Kinderschuhen.

pcmanfm aus den Ports - keine Icons?

morpheus — Sun, 13 May 2012 16:29:33 GMT

Hallo,

ich habe mir heute unter FreeBSD 9 aus den Ports den pcmanfm gebaut. Der Buildvorgang ist auch ohne Fehlermeldungen durchgelaufen. Aber wenn ich jetzt den Filemanager starte, werden mir f�r die Dateien und Ordner keine Icons angezeigt. Starte ich den Filemanager aus einer Konsole, erhalte ich jede Menge Fehlermeldungen:

Code:

galileo# pcmanfm

** (pcmanfm:44255): DEBUG: unable to load icon media-eject

** (pcmanfm:44255): DEBUG: unable to load icon user-home



(pcmanfm:44255): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

** (pcmanfm:44255): DEBUG: unable to load icon user-trash



(pcmanfm:44255): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

** (pcmanfm:44255): DEBUG: unable to load icon system-software-install



(pcmanfm:44255): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

** (pcmanfm:44255): DEBUG: unable to load icon folder



(pcmanfm:44255): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

** (pcmanfm:44255): DEBUG: unable to load icon folder



(pcmanfm:44255): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

** (pcmanfm:44255): DEBUG: unable to load icon . GThemedIcon folder inode-directory gnome-mime-inode-directory inode-x-generic

** (pcmanfm:44255): DEBUG: unable to load icon . GThemedIcon application-mbox gnome-mime-application-mbox text-x-generic application-x-generic application-x-executable

** (pcmanfm:44255): DEBUG: unable to load icon . GThemedIcon text-plain gnome-mime-text-plain text-x-generic application-x-executable

** (pcmanfm:44255): DEBUG: unable to load icon . GThemedIcon application-octet-stream gnome-mime-application-octet-stream application-x-generic

Ich vermute, dass da irgendwelche Icons fehlen, allerdings sollte der Port doch alle Abh�ngigkeiten mit installieren. Hat jemand eine Idee, wie ich das Problem beheben kann?

Gru�, Morph

turingtest - littlebit

littlebit — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:37:22 GMT

Hllo,

br�uchte Hilfe mit der Konfiguration eines access points mit wpa2 Verschl�sselung.
Habe einiges Probiert und komme nicht voran. :grumble:

Ich hoffe auf eine baldige Freischaltung.

Vielen Dank Hades.

brauche openbsd hilfe

Unregistriert — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:25:30 GMT

Hi,

ich hoffe eine L�sung zu meinem Problem bei openBSD zu finden, und hoffe auf eine Registrierung.

Danke

FreeBSD Statusreport Januar bis M�rz 2012

Yamagi — Sun, 13 May 2012 09:15:56 GMT

Mit der obligatorischen Versp�tung ist der Statusreport der ersten drei Monate des Jahres nun erschienen. Wie immer listet er interessante Entwicklungen im FreeBSD Projekt auf, gibt Einblicke in die Arbeit und Fortschritte an neuen Funktionen. Eine HTML-Version findet sich auf der Homepage unter: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/r...1-2012-03.html

Die Text-Version:

Code:

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report January-March, 2012



Introduction



   This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between January and March

   2012. It is the first of the four reports planned for 2012. This

   quarter was highlighted by releasing the next major version of FreeBSD,

   9.0, which was finally released in the beginning of January 2012. The

   FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to the memory of

   Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of the UNIXŽ operating

   system. Our release engineering team has been also busy with

   preparation of the 8.3-RELEASE, which was publicly announced in April.



   Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report

   contains 27 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.



   Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period

   between April and June 2012 is July 15th, 2012.

     __________________________________________________________________



Projects



     * FreeBSD Services Control

     * GNU-Free C++11 Stack

     * Growing filesystems online

     * The FreeNAS Project



User-land Programs



     * Clang Replacing GCC in the Base System

     * Replacing the Regular Expression Code

     * The bsdconfig(8) utility



FreeBSD Team Reports



     * Release Engineering Team Status Report

     * The FreeBSD Foundation Team Report



Kernel



     * DTrace Probes for the linuxulator

     * HDMI/DisplayPort Audio Support in HDA Sound Driver (snd_hda)

     * Improved hwpmc(9) Support for MIPS

     * isci(4) SAS Driver



Network Infrastructure



     * Atheros 802.11n Support

     * IPv6 Performance Analysis

     * Multi-FIB: IPv6 Support and Other Enhancements



Documentation



     * The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project



Architectures



     * FreeBSD/arm on Various TI Boards

     * FreeBSD/powerpc on Freescale QorIQ DPAA

     * NAND File System, NAND Flash Framework, NAND Simulator

     * Porting DTrace to MIPS and ARM



Ports



     * A New linux_base Port Based Upon CentOS

     * BSD-licensed sort Utility (GNU sort Replacement)

     * KDE/FreeBSD

     * Perl Ports Testing

     * The FreeBSD Haskell Ports

     * The FreeBSD Ports Collection

     __________________________________________________________________



A New linux_base Port Based Upon CentOS



   Contact: Alexander Leidinger 



   We got a PR with a linux_based port which is based upon CentOS 6.

   Currently this can only be used as a test environment, as it depends

   upon a more recent linux kernel version, than the linuxulator provides.



   As of this writing, I'm in the process of preparing a commit of this

   port.



Open tasks:



    1. Repocopy by portmgr.

    2. Add conflicts in other linux_base ports.

    3. Commit the CentOS based one.

    4. Some cleanup.

     __________________________________________________________________



Atheros 802.11n Support



   URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/AdrianChadd/AtherosTxAgg

   URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/dev/ath(4)



   Contact: Adrian Chadd 



   802.11n station and hostap support is now fully functional, sans

   correct hostap side power saving. TX aggregation and TX BAR handling is

   implemented.



   Station chip power saving is not implemented at all yet, it's not in

   the scope of this work.



   Testers should disable bgscan (-bgscan) as scan/bgscan will simply drop

   any traffic in the TX/RX queues, causing potential traffic stalls.



Open tasks:



    1. Fix up hostap side power save handling.

    2. Implement filtered frames support in the driver.

    3. Fix scan/bgscan to correctly buffer and retransmit frames when

       going off channel, so frames are not just "dropped" - this causes

       issues in the aggregation sessions and may cause traffic stalls.

    4. Test/fix any issues with adhoc 802.11n support.

     __________________________________________________________________



BSD-licensed sort Utility (GNU sort Replacement)



   URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/bsdsort/

   URL:

   http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sort.html



   Contact: Oleg Moskalenko 

   Contact: G�bor K�vesd�n 



   Currently the BSD sort reached usable stable stage. It is stable, it is

   as fast as the GNU sort, and it supports multi-byte locales (this is

   something that GNU sort does not do correctly). BSD sort has all

   features of GNU sort 5.3.0 (version included into FreeBSD) with some

   extra features and bug fixes.



Open tasks:



    1. Add BSD sort into HEAD as an alternative, installed as bsdsort. If

       proven to work as expected, change it to the default sort version

       and remove GNU sort.

    2. Investigate the possibility of a multi-threaded sort implementation

       and implement it, if it proves more efficient.

    3. Upgrade BSD sort features to include some obscure new features in

       the latest GNU sort version 8.15.

     __________________________________________________________________



Clang Replacing GCC in the Base System



   URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang



   Contact: Brooks Davis 

   Contact: David Chisnall 

   Contact: Dimitry Andric 

   Contact: Ed Schouten 

   Contact: Pawel Worach 

   Contact: Roman Divacky 



   Both FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT and 9.0-STABLE now have Clang 3.0 release

   installed by default. At least on 10.0-CURRENT, both world and the

   GENERIC kernel can be completely built without any -Werror warnings.

   This may not be the case for all custom kernel configurations yet.



   As of r231057, there is a WITH_CLANG_EXTRAS option for src.conf(5),

   which will enable a number of additional LLVM and Clang tools, such as

   'llc' and 'opt'. These tools are mainly useful for people that want to

   manipulate LLVM bitcode (.bc) and LLVM assembly language (.ll) files,

   or want to tinker with LLVM and Clang themselves.



   Also, as of r232322, there is a WITH_CLANG_IS_CC option for

   src.conf(5), which will install Clang as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++ and

   /usr/bin/cpp, making it the default system compiler. Unless you also

   use the WITHOUT_GCC option, gcc will still be available as

   /usr/bin/gcc, /usr/bin/g++ and /usr/bin/gcpp.



   The intent is to switch on this option by default rather sooner than

   later, so we can start preparing for shipping 10.0-RELEASE with Clang

   as as the default system compiler, and deprecating gcc.



   In other news, we will import a newer snapshot of Clang soon, since

   upstream LLVM/Clang has already announced their 3.1 release will be

   branched April 16, 2012. Most likely, the actual 3.1 release will be

   follow a few weeks later, after which we will do another import.



   Last but not least, there are many ports people working on making our

   ports compile properly with Clang. Fixes are checked in on a very

   regular basis now, and full exp-runs with Clang are also done fairly

   regularly. Of course, there are always a few difficult cases,

   especially with very old software that will not even compile with newer

   versions of gcc, let alone clang.



Open tasks:



    1. One of the most important tasks at the moment is to actually build

       and run your entire FreeBSD system with Clang, as much as possible.

       Any compile-time or run-time problems should be reported to the

       appropriate mailing list, or filed as a PR. If you have patches

       and/or workarounds, that would be even better.

    2. Clang should have gotten better support for cross-compiling after

       3.0, so as soon as a 3.1 version is imported, we will need to look

       at ways to get the FreeBSD world and kernels to cross-compile. This

       is mainly of use for ARM and MIPS, which are architectures you

       usually do not want to build natively on.

    3. Help to make unwilling ports build with Clang is always needed, and

       greatly appreciated. Please mail the maintainer of your favorite

       port with patches, or file PRs.

     __________________________________________________________________



DTrace Probes for the linuxulator



   Contact: Alexander Leidinger 



   Recently DTrace in the kernel was improved to be able to load kernel

   modules with static dtrace providers after the dtrace modules. This

   allows me to commit my linuxulator specific static provider work to

   -CURRENT.



   Together with the linuxulator DTrace probes I developed some D scripts

   to check various code paths in the linuxulator. Those scripts check

   various error cases which may be interesting to verify userland code,

   but also linuxulator internals like locks.



   As of this writing I'm in the process of updating a test machine to a

   more recent -current to prepare the commit.

     __________________________________________________________________



FreeBSD Services Control



   URL: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~trhodes/fsc/



   Contact: Tom Rhodes 



   After a while of moving and getting a new job, I finally got back to

   this project (also thanks to several submissions by Julian Fagir), a

   new version has been uploaded along with a short description page. The

   current version supports more options, a configuration file, and

   updated rc.d script. It also includes manual page updates and an

   optional debugging mode.

     __________________________________________________________________



FreeBSD/arm on Various TI Boards



   URL: http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/projects/armv6/sys/arm/ti/



   Contact: Ben Gray 

   Contact: Olivier Houchard 

   Contact: Damjan Marion 

   Contact: Oleksandr Tymoshenko 



   The goal of this project is to get FreeBSD running on various popular

   boards that use TI-based SoCs like OMAP3, OMAP4, AM335x. Project covers

   some ARM generic Cortex-A components: GIC (Generic Interrupt

   Controller), PL310 L2 Cache Controller and SCU.



   PandaBoard (TI OMAP4430) and PandaBoard ES (OMAP4460) Dual core ARM

   Cortex-A9 board support includes: USB, onboard Ethernet over USB, GPIO,

   I2C and MMC/SD card drivers. Board works in multiuser mode over NFS

   root.



   BeagleBone (TI AM3358/AM3359) single core ARM Cortex-A8 based board

   support currently includes: Ethernet, L2 cache, GPIO, I2C. Board works

   in multiuser mode over NFS root.



Open tasks:



    1. Completing missing peripherals: DMA, SPI, MMC/SD, Video, Audio.

    2. Completing SMP support and testing.

    3. Importing BeagleBoard (OMAP3) code to SVN.

    4. Improving overall stability and performance.

     __________________________________________________________________



FreeBSD/powerpc on Freescale QorIQ DPAA



   URL:

   http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=P2040

   URL:

   http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=P3041

   URL:

   http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=P5020

   URL:

   http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?code=64BIT&fsrch=

   1&sr=1



   Contact: Michal Dubiel 

   Contact: Rafal Jaworowski 

   Contact: Piotr Ziecik 



   This work is bringing up the FreeBSD on Freescale QorIQ Data Path

   Acceleration Architecture (DPAA) system-on-chips along with device

   drivers for integrated peripherals. Since the last status report, the

   following support has been added:

     * Ethernet (full network functionality using Regular Mode of DPAA

       infrastructure)

     * QorIQ P5020 SoC (e5500 core in legacy 32-bit mode)

     * P5020 QorIQ Development System support

     * Initial support for Enhanced SDHC



   The next step is:

     * e5500 core in native 64-bit mode



   Related publications:

     * Michal Dubiel, Piotr Ziecik, "FreeBSD on Freescale QorIQ Data Path

       Acceleration Architecture Devices", AsiaBSDCon, March 2012, Tokyo,

       Japan.

     __________________________________________________________________



GNU-Free C++11 Stack



   Contact: David Chisnall 



   Since the last status report, the combination of libc++ and libcxxrt

   has received some additional testing and gained some new features

   including support for ARM EABI. With clang 3.1, we now pass all of the

   C++11 atomics tests.



   The xlocale implementation (required for libc++) has been tested with a

   variety of ports that were originally written for the Darwin

   implementation, and bugs that this testing uncovered have been fixed.

   This should be released in 9.1.



   In -CURRENT, we are now building libsupc++ as a shared library. This

   provides the ABI layer and building it as a shared library means that

   we can replace it with libcxxrt easily. If you are running -CURRENT,

   please try using libmap.conf to enable libcxxrt instead of libsupc++.



   If libstdc++ is using libcxxrt, you can now link against both libraries

   that are using libstdc++ and libc++, making the migration slightly

   easier, although you cannot pass STL objects between libraries using

   different STL versions.



   We still need a replacement for some parts of libgcc_s and for the

   linker, but we're on track for a BSD licensed C++ stack in 10.0.



Open tasks:



    1. Test ports with libc++. Hopefully most will Just Work, but others

       may need patches or have a hard dependency on libstdc++.

    2. Enable building libc++ by default. This is dependent upon building

       with clang, because the version of gcc in the base system does not

       support C++11 and so can not be used to build libc++.

    3. Removing libstdc++ from the base system and making it available

       through ports for backwards compatibility.

     __________________________________________________________________



Growing filesystems online



   Contact: Edward Tomasz Napierala 



   The goal of this project is to make it possible to grow a filesystem,

   both UFS and ZFS, while it's mounted read-write. This includes changes

   to both filesystems, GEOM infrastructure, and the da(4) driver. For

   testing purposes, I've also added resizing to mdconfig(8) and

   implemented LUN resizing in CAM Target Layer.



   From the system administrator point of view, this makes it possible to

   resize mounted partition using gpart(8) and then resize the filesystem

   on it using growfs(8) - all without unmounting it first; especially

   useful if it's a root filesystem.



   All the functionality works and is in the process of being refined,

   reviewed and merged to HEAD.



   This project is sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.



Open tasks:



    1. The write suspension infrastructure (/dev/ufssuspend) implemented

       to make resizing possible makes it also possible to implement

       online tunefs(8) and fsck(8).

    2. Right now, there is no way for a GEOM class to veto resizing --

       classes are notified about resize and they can either adapt, or

       wither. Many classes store their metadata in the last sector,

       though, so resizing a partition containing e.g. gmirror will make

       it inoperable. It would be nice if geom_mirror(4) could veto

       resizing, so the administrator attempting to shoot himself in the

       foot would get a warning.

     __________________________________________________________________



HDMI/DisplayPort Audio Support in HDA Sound Driver (snd_hda)



   Contact: Alexander Motin 



   snd_hda(4) driver got number of improvements to better support

   HDMI/DisplayPort audio, such as:

     * Added fetching EDID-Like Data from the CODEC and video driver,

       describing audio capabilities of the display device.

     * Added setting HDMI/DP-specific CODEC options, such as number of

       channels, speakers configuration and channels mapping.

     * Added support for more multichannel formats. For HDMI and

       DisplayPort device now supported: 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, 4.1,

       5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 and 7.1 channels.

     * Added support for compressed streams passthrough with data rate

       6.144 - 24Mbps, such as DTS-HD Master Audio or Dolby TrueHD.

     * Added support for HDA bus multiplexing to handle higher data rates

       (up to 92, 184 or more Mbps, depending on hardware capabilities).

       It allows to handle several 192/24/8 LPCM playback streams

       simultaneously.



   Above functionality was successfully tested on NVIDIA GT210 and GT520

   video cards with nvidia-driver-290.10 driver. HDMI audio on older

   NVIDIA ION and Geforce 8300 boards still does not work for unknown

   reason. There are also successful reports about Intel video with latest

   KMS-based drivers. Support for ATI cards is limited to older cards,

   because video driver supporting newer cards does not support HDMI

   audio.



   The code was committed to HEAD and merged to 9-STABLE branch.



   Project sponsored by iXsystems, Inc.



Open tasks:



    1. Make better use of received EDID-Like Data.

    2. Identify and fix problem with older NVIDIA cards.

     __________________________________________________________________



Improved hwpmc(9) Support for MIPS



   Contact: Oleksandr Tymoshenko 



   hwpmc(9) for MIPS has been reworked. The changes include:

     * msip24k code was split to CPU-specific and arch-specific parts to

       make adding support for new CPUs easier

     * Added support for Octeon PMC

     * Added sampling support for MIPS in general

     __________________________________________________________________



IPv6 Performance Analysis



   URL: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bz/bench/



   Contact: Bjoern A. Zeeb 



   IPv6 performance numbers were often seen (significantly) lower on

   FreeBSD when compared to IPv4. Continuing last years IPv6-only kernel

   efforts this project looked at various reasons for this and started

   fixing some.



   As part of the project a benchmark framework was created that could

   carry out various tests including reboots in between runs and gather

   results reproducibly without user intervention. It allows regular

   benchmarking with minimal configuration and easy future extension for

   more benchmarks.



   As a result of the initial analysis, UDP locking and route lookups were

   improved, and delayed checksumming, TSO6 and LRO support for IPv6 were

   implemented. Following this checksum "offload" for IPv6 on loopback was

   enabled and various further individual improvements, both locking and

   general code changes, as well as a reduction of the cache size

   footprint were carried out. Some of the changes were equally applied to

   IPv4.



   Performance numbers on physical and loopback interfaces are on par with

   IPv4 when using offload support with TCP/IPv6, which is a huge

   improvement. UDP and non-offload numbers on IPv6 have generally

   improved but are still lower than on IPv4 and will need future work to

   catch up with a decade of IPv4 benchmarking and code path

   optimizations. UDP IPv6 minimal size send path packets per second (pps)

   numbers however have increased beating IPv4 when sending to a local

   discard device.



   This gets us really close to being able to prefer IPv6 by default

   without causing loopback performance regressions. For physical

   interfaces, cxgb(4) in HEAD already supports IPv6 TCP offload and

   LRO/v6 support was added. To be able to get more test results on

   different hardware, both ixgbe(4) and cxgbe(4) were also updated to

   support TSO6 and LRO with IPv6.



   Some of the insights gained from this work will help upcoming

   discussions on both the lower/link-layer overhaul as well as for the

   mbuf changes to prepare our stack for more, future improvements (ahead

   of time).



   I once again want to thank the FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems for

   their support of the project, as well as George Neville-Neil for

   providing review.



   Having set the start to close one of the biggest feature parity gaps

   left I will continue to improve IPv6 code paths and hope that we will

   see more contributions and independent results from the community as

   well soon.



Open tasks:



    1. Carefully merge code changes to SVN.

     __________________________________________________________________



isci(4) SAS Driver



   Contact: Jim Harris 



   An Intel-supported isci(4) driver, for the integrated SAS controller in

   Intel's C600 chipsets, is now available in head, stable/9, stable/8 and

   stable/7.



   The isci(4) driver will also be part of the FreeBSD 8.3 release.

     __________________________________________________________________



KDE/FreeBSD



   URL: http://FreeBSD.kde.org

   URL: http://FreeBSD.kde.org/area51.php



   Contact: KDE FreeBSD 



   The team has made many releases and upstreamed many fixes and patches.

   The latest round of releases include:

     * KDE SC: 4.7.4 (in ports) and 4.8.0, 4.8.1, 4.8.2 (in area51)

     * Qt: 4.8.0, 4.8.1 (in area51)

     * PyQt: 4.9.1; SIP: 4.13.2 (in area51)

     * KDevelop: 2.3.0; KDevPlatform: 1.3.0 (in area51)

     * Calligra: 2.3.87 (in area51)

     * Amarok: 2.5.0

     * CMake: 2.8.7



   Due to the prolonged port freeze the KDE team has not been able to

   update KDE in Ports as it is considered a intrusive change.



   The team is always looking for more testers and porters so please

   contact us at kde@FreeBSD.org and visit our home page at

   http://FreeBSD.kde.org.



Open tasks:



    1. Testing KDE SC 4.8.2.

    2. Testing KDE PIM 4.8.2.

    3. Testing phonon-gstreamer and phonon-vlc as the phonon-xine backend

       was deprecated (but will remain in the ports for now).

    4. Testing the Calligra beta releases (in the area51 repository).

     __________________________________________________________________



Multi-FIB: IPv6 Support and Other Enhancements



   URL: http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/projects/multi-fibv6/



   Contact: Bjoern A. Zeeb 

   Contact: Alexander V. Chernikov 



   In 2008 the multiple forwarding information base (FIB) feature was

   introduced for IPv4 allowing up to 16 distinct forwarding ("routing")

   tables in the kernel. Thanks to the sponsorship from Cisco Systems,

   Inc. this feature is now also available for IPv6 and one of the bigger

   IPv6 feature-parity gaps is closed. The changes have been integrated to

   HEAD, were merged back to stable/9 and stable/8 and will be part of

   future releases for these branches. A backport to stable/7 is also

   available in the project branch. If more than one FIB is requested,

   IPv6 FIBs will be added along the extra IPv4 FIBs without any special

   configuration needed and programs like netstat and setfib, as well as

   ipfw, etc. were extended to seamlessly support the multi-FIB feature on

   both address families.



   Thanks to the help of Alexander V. Chernikov all usage of the multi-FIB

   feature is now using the boot-time variable rather than depending on

   the compile time option. In HEAD this now allows us you to use the

   multi-FIB feature with GENERIC kernels not needing to recompile your

   own anymore. The former kernel option can still be used to set a

   default value if desired. Otherwise the net.fibs loader tunable can be

   used to request more than one IPv6 and IPv4 FIB at boot time.



   Last, routing sockets are now aware of FIBs and will only show the

   routing messages targeted at the FIB attached to. This allows route

   monitor or routing daemons to get selective updates for just a specific

   FIB.

     __________________________________________________________________



NAND File System, NAND Flash Framework, NAND Simulator



   URL: http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/projects/nand/



   Contact: Grzegorz Bernacki 

   Contact: Mateusz Guzik 



   The NAND Flash stack consists of a driver framework for NAND

   controllers and memory chips, a NAND device simulator and a fault

   tolerant, log-structured file system, accompanied by tools, utilities

   and documentation.

     

   NAND FS support merged into "nand" project branch:

     * NAND FS filesystem

     * NAND FS userland tools



   NAND Framework and NAND simulator merged into "nand" project

   branch:

     * NAND framework: nandbus, generic nand chips drivers

     * NAND Flash controllers (NFC) drivers for NAND Simulator and Marvell

       MV-78100 (ARM)

     * NAND tool (which allows to erase, write/read pages/oob, etc.



   The next steps include:

     * Fix bugs

     * Merge into HEAD



   Work on this project is supported by the FreeBSD Foundation and Juniper

   Networks.

     __________________________________________________________________



Perl Ports Testing



   URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Perl#Test_Dependencies



   Contact: Steve Wills 



   Many Perl modules in ports come with test cases included with their

   source. This project's goal is to ensure that all these tests pass.

   Significant progress has been made on this project. The change to build

   perl with -pthread was committed and no issues have been reported. Many

   ports have had missing dependencies added and/or other changes and

   approximately 90% of p5- ports pass tests. Work is being done on

   bringing testing support out of ports tinderbox.



Open tasks:



    1. Finish work on patch to bring testing support to ports.

    2. Add additional support for testing other types of ports such as

       python and ruby.

     __________________________________________________________________



Porting DTrace to MIPS and ARM



   Contact: Oleksandr Tymoshenko 



   The major part of DTrace has been ported to MIPS platform. Supported

   ABIs: o32 and n64. n32 has not been tested yet. MIPS implementation

   passes 853 of 927 tests from DTrace test suite.



   The fbt provider and userland DTrace are not supported yet.



   The port to ARM is in progress.



Open tasks:



    1. Userland DTrace support for MIPS.

    2. Investigate amount of effort required for getting fbt provider work

       at least partially.

    3. Find proper solution for cross-platform CTF data generation

       (required for ARM).

     __________________________________________________________________



Release Engineering Team Status Report



   URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/



   Contact: Release Engineering Team 



   On behalf of the FreeBSD Project the Release Engineering Team was are

   pleased to announce the release of the FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE on April

   18th, 2012.



   With the FreeBSD 8.3 release cycle completed our focus shifts to

   preparing for the FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. A schedule will be posted

   shortly, with the release target date set for mid-July 2012.

     __________________________________________________________________



Replacing the Regular Expression Code



   URL: http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/user/gabor/tre-integration/

   URL: http://laurikari.net/tre/

   URL:

   http://www.tdk.aut.bme.hu/Files/TDK2011/POSIX-regularis-kifejezesek1.pd

   f



   Contact: G�bor K�vesd�n 



   Since the last status report, there has been a significant progress in

   optimizing TRE. The multiple pattern heuristic code is mostly finished

   and it distinguishes several different cases to speed up pattern

   matching. It extracts literal fragments from the original patterns and

   uses a multiple pattern matching algorithm to find any occurrence. GNU

   grep uses the Commentz-Walter algorithm, which is an automaton-based

   algorithm, while in this project, it has been decided to use a

   Wu-Manber algorithm, which is more efficient and also easier to

   implement. In the current state, it does not work entirely yet and some

   cases, like the REG_ICASE flag are not yet covered. This is the next

   major step to complete this multiple pattern interface. In the

   development branch, BSD grep is already modified to use this new

   interface so it can be used for testing and debugging purposes.



Open tasks:



    1. Finish multiple pattern heuristic regex matching.

    2. Implement GNU-specific regex extensions.

    3. Test standard-compliance and correct behavior.

     __________________________________________________________________



The bsdconfig(8) utility



   URL: http://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/druidbsd/bsdconfig/

   URL: http://druidbsd.sf.net/download/bsdconfig/bsdconfig-20120512-1.svg

   URL:

   http://druidbsd.sf.net/download/bsdconfig/bsdconfig-20120512-1i.svg



   Contact: Devin Teske 

   Contact: Ron McDowell 



   Approaching 20,000 lines of sh(1) code, the bsdconfig(8) tool is

   approximately 70% complete. Upon completion of this project,

   bsdconfig(8) will represent (in conjunction with already-existing

   bsdinstall(8)) a complete set of utilities capable of purposefully

   deprecating sysinstall(8) in FreeBSD 9 and higher. This project has

   been a labor of love for Ron McDowell and I for over 90 days now and we

   are approaching the completion of this wonderful tool.



Open tasks:



    1. The "installer suite" modules for acquiring/installing binary

       packages and additional distribution sets. Startup services module.

     __________________________________________________________________



The FreeBSD Foundation Team Report



   URL: www.FreeBSDFoundation.org



   Contact: Deb Goodkin 



   The Foundation sponsored AsiaBSDCon 2012 which was held in Tokyo,

   Japan, March 22-25. We were represented at SCALE on Jan 21 and NELF on

   March 17. This quarter we plan on being at ILF (Indiana LinuxFest)

   April 14th, BSDCan May 11-12, and SELF (Southeast LinuxFest) June 9.



   We are proud to be a gold sponsor of BSDCan 2012, which will be held in

   Ottawa, Canada, May 11-12. We are sponsoring 14 developers to attend

   the conference.



   We kicked off three foundation funded projects -- Growing Filesystems

   Online by Edward Tomasz Napierala, Implementing auditdistd daemon by

   Pawel Jakub Dawidek, and NAND Flash Support by Semihalf.



   We are pleased to announce the addition of George Neville-Neil to our

   board of directors. Deb Goodkin, our Director of Operations, was

   interviewed by bsdtalk.



   We announced a call for project proposals. We will accept proposals

   until April 30th. Please read Project Proposal Procedures to find out

   more.



   FreeBSD 9.0 was released and we are proud to say we funded 7 of the new

   features!

     __________________________________________________________________



The FreeBSD Haskell Ports



   URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Haskell

   URL: https://github.com/freebsd-haskell/freebsd-haskell/

   URL: https://github.com/freebsd-haskell/hsporter/

   URL: https://github.com/freebsd-haskell/hsmtk/



   Contact: G�bor P�LI 

   Contact: Ashish SHUKLA 



   We are proud announce that the FreeBSD Haskell Team has committed the

   Haskell Platform 2011.4.0.0 update, GHC 7.0.4 update, existing port

   updates, as well new port additions to FreeBSD ports repository, which

   were pending due to freeze for 9.0-RELEASE. Some of the new ports which

   were committed include Yesod, Happstack, wxHaskell, gitit, Threadscope,

   etc. and the count of Haskell ports in FreeBSD Ports tree is now almost

   300. All of these updates will be available as part of upcoming

   8.3-RELEASE.



   We started project hsporter to automate creation of new FreeBSD Haskell

   ports from .cabal file, as well as update existing ports. We also

   published scripts which we were using in the FreeBSD Haskell project

   under the project hsmtk.



Open tasks:



    1. Test GHC to work with clang/LLVM.

    2. Add an option to the lang/ghc port to be able to build it with

       already installed GHC instead of requiring a separate GHC boostrap

       tarball.

    3. Add more ports to the Ports Collection.

     __________________________________________________________________



The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project



   URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ja/

   URL: http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/doc-jp/



   Contact: Hiroki Sato 

   Contact: Ryusuke Suzuki 



   The same as before, the outdated contents in the www/ja subtree were

   updated to the latest versions in the English counterpart. The updating

   work of the outdated translations in the www/ja subtree is almost

   complete. Only the translations of the release documents for old

   releases may be outdated.



   During this period, we translated the 9.0-RELEASE announcement and

   published it in a timely manner. It seems that the Japanese version of

   the release announcement is important for Japanese people as this page

   has frequently been referenced.



   For FreeBSD Handbook, translation work of the "cutting-edge" section is

   still on-going. Some updates in the "printing" and the "linuxemu"

   section were done.



Open tasks:



    1. Further translation work of outdated documents in both

       doc/ja_JP.eucJP and www/ja.

     __________________________________________________________________



The FreeBSD Ports Collection



   URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/

   URL:

   http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/

   URL: http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html

   URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/portmgr/index.html

   URL: http://blogs.FreeBSDish.org/portmgr/

   URL: http://www.twitter.com/freebsd_portmgr/

   URL: http://www.facebook.com/portmgr



   Contact: Thomas Abthorpe 

   Contact: Port Management Team 



   The ports tree slowly climbs above 23,000 ports. The PR count still

   remains at about 1100.



   In Q1 we added 2 new committers, took in 2 commit bits for safe

   keeping, and had one committer return to ports work.



   The Ports Management team have been running -exp runs on an ongoing

   basis, verifying how base system updates may affect the ports tree, as

   well as providing QA runs for major ports updates. Of note, -exp runs

   were done for:

     * Ports validation in the FreeBSD 10 environment

     * Updates to bison, libtool and libiconv

     * Set java/opendjdk6 as default java

     * Tests with clang set as default

     * Update to devel/boost and friends

     * Update of audio/sdl and friends

     * Tests for changes in the ports licensing infrastructure

     * Update to devel/ruby1[8|9]

     * Update to postresql

     * Update to apr

     * Checks for new x11/xorg

     * Security update to security/gnutls

     * Ongoing validation of infrastructure with pkgng



   A lot of focus during this period was put into getting the ports tree

   into a ready state for FreeBSD 8.3, including preparing packages for

   the release.



   Beat Gaetzi has been doing ongoing tests with the ports tree to ensure

   a smooth transition from CVS to Subversion.



Open tasks:



    1. Looking for help getting ports to build with clang.

    2. Looking for help with Tier-2 architectures.

    3. ports broken by src changes.

    4. ports failing on pointyhat.

    5. ports failing on pointyhat-west.

    6. ports that are marked as BROKEN.

    7. When did that port break?

    8. Most ports PRs are assigned, we now need to focus on testing,

       committing and closing.

     __________________________________________________________________



The FreeNAS Project



   URL: http://www.FreeNAS.org



   Contact: Josh Paetzel 

   Contact: Xin Li 



   FreeNAS 8.0.4 was released last month, which marks the end of the 8.0.x

   branch in FreeNAS.



   FreeNAS 8.2.0 is in BETA currently, and will hopefully be released by

   the end of April.



   It features a number of improvements over the 8.0.x line, including

   plugin support, (the ability to run arbitrary software in jails), as

   well as better integration between command line ZFS and the GUI.



   Once 8.2.0 is out it will be quickly followed up with 8.3.0, which will

   include a number of driver updates as well as the long awaited ZFS v28.

     __________________________________________________________________



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