How much do you think it will take until Juniper JunOS and netApp will upgrade their kernels to 11.0-p1?
It will take buying the company and making it happen.
FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
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Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#22A couple things HN users might be excited about: * Docker via ZFS and jails (...running Linux x84-64 binaries): https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker --- (See also, https://github.com/3ofcoins/jetpack ) * Add support for trackpads found in Apple MacBook products: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=26126... * CloudABI executable support: https://nuxi.nl/cloudabi/freebsd/ This is an awesome release.
Jetpack is in my (personal and completely biased) opinion the even more interesting project. It's the implementation of the App Container specification (like rkt).
Just pointing it out cause it was only mentioned in brackets.
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#23I think the highlights don't mention the release's best bits. The full release notes are way larger and it really depends on what you do, what you might consider the most interesting part.
Also I am happy to see a bunch of "Sponsored by..." Netflix, Yandex, NGINX Inc, Netgate, Citrix, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Dell, Multiplay, ScaleEngine, etc. in there.
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#24EC2(TM) users are urged to read the Errata Notes for FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE regarding an issue discovered very late in the release cycle that may cause the system to hang during the boot process when upgrading from previous FreeBSD versions. New EC2(TM) installations are not affected, but existing installations running earlier releases are advised to wait until the issue is resolved in an Errata Notice before upgrading.
This is discussed on BSD Now 162 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ-mgwxhNvo
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#25I still have hope some or all HardendedBSD features might get ported or reimplemented in FreeBSD 12. Too much low hanging fruit, and now that linux has been steadily closing the gap to grsec, the competition in mainstream kernel branches is on.
What has Linux done to close the gap to GRsec?
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#26I still have hope some or all HardendedBSD features might get ported or reimplemented in FreeBSD 12. Too much low hanging fruit, and now that linux has been steadily closing the gap to grsec, the competition in mainstream kernel branches is on.
What has Linux done to close the gap to GRsec?
Kees Cook and others have been porting or reimplementing features exclusive to grsec in upstream linux.
https://outflux.net/blog/archives/2016/09/26/security-things...
https://outflux.net/blog/archives/2016/09/27/security-things...
https://outflux.net/blog/archives/2016/09/28/security-things...
https://outflux.net/blog/archives/2016/09/30/security-things...
https://outflux.net/blog/archives/2016/10/03/security-things...
https://outflux.net/blog/archives/2016/10/04/security-things...
And naturally some stuff is exclusive to linux upstream, though grsec will benefit from those automatically if they deem it good enough.
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#27This would be a good moment to be "that guy" and kindly remind you to donate: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#28No mention of ASLR. Helping to prevent memory corruption bugs apparently isn't on their radar?
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#29No mention of ASLR. Helping to prevent memory corruption bugs apparently isn't on their radar?
It's on their radar, but did not make it into 11.0. It's still under code review here:
Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
#30"Wireless support for 802.11n has been added" C'mon FreeBSD! We're in the 802.11ac era! As much as I love BSD, they're always a couple of years behind the status quo
Hi! FreeBSD wifi person here!
* ath(4)'s 11n support is much, much better now. All the AR93xx/AR95xx PCIe devices are supported and STA/AP 11n should work great. * iwn(4)'s 11n is much, much better. It still has some warts, and I'd love some help in chasing them down. * urtwn(4) in -HEAD does 11n now. * rsu(4) in -HEAD does 11n now. * iwm(4) (intel 7260, etc) is getting better every day in freebsd and dragonflybsd. Thanks to another developer for that !I think we're almost ready for starting the 11n bits? once the 11n bits are done and working, we can start on the 11ac bits. * Another developer is working on urtwn/rtwn unification and support for 11ac USB devices from realtek. * I'm working on an ath10k port from Linux to FreeBSD - I have association working now and I'm about to start on normal data TX. Once that's done, I'll get crypto and 11n station mode operation working.
now, where's 11ac? It's mostly waiting for some stable like 11ac devices to appear in the tree with 11n support. 11ac is partially revolution and partially evolution - if 11n doesn't work, 11ac definitely won't work. So, between iwm 11n work, the rtwn/urtwn 11n/11ac USB work going on and my ath10k work, I think we're heading in the right direction.
I'm hoping that once I get ath10k up in monitor, STA and AP mode, with crypto, QoS and 11n working, the 11ac bits will be trivial - at which point I can start on the 11ac stack pieces. I know what those stack pieces are and I've started writing them down - https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/80211ac .
All of this is non-commercial btw - no-one is sponsoring any work on BSD wireless at the present moment. If you'd like to help or contribute, please consider talking and donating to the FreeBSD foundation, or consider funding someone to help in these efforts.
Thanks!
adrian@freebsd.org