I got some PC-BSD items this week, too.
- Open Source Snapshot: GhostBSD.
- (Free)BSD and Dropbox.
- FreeBSD finally dumped rcs.
- FreeBSD’s igb(4) driver is updated to 2.4.0.
- FreeBSD’s binutils now has “support for assembling and disassembling Intel Random Number Generator extensions“.
- You can now use ‘athsurvey’ on AR5212 chipset ath(4) devices in FreeBSD.
- FreeBSD branched version 11.
- FreeBSD has changes contributed by… Microsoft?
- PC-BSD has added a GUI version of their Life Preserver application.
- PC-BSD has a new ‘pc-zmanager’ program for managing ZFS and disks.
- PC-BSD has branched version 10, I think.
- NetBSD runs on the iMX233/OLinuXino.
- OpenBSD replaced rc4 with ChaCha20. No, I’m not sure what that means. (via)
- OpenBSD now has the vmwpvs(4) driver, for VMWare paravirtualized SCSI.
- OpenBSD has imported Mesa 9.2.1 and Freetype 2.5.0.1.
- OpenBSD supports the AM335x EDMA3 controller.
- OpenBSD supports the RTL8106E and RTL8168G/8111G networking chipsets.
- Diffe-Hellman key size increased in OpenBSD. It’s from NIST Special Publication 800-57, which is unavailable as of this typing because of the stupid U.S. government shutdown.
FreeBSD say HELLO RCS http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=256198 ;)
Microsoft was working with open source projects before – they try to improve support for their virtualization software. Nothing new here. IIRC, they already had several commits in FreeBSD before this one. Surely they did have several commits to Linux.
Oh, I know there’s been Microsoft-sourced changes for this and other projects. It’s just a funny and unexpected thing to see in a commit message.
Weren’t Microsoft the guys who allegedly put remote holes in BSDs? I could be bullshitting here, but there was something in the past. Van de Raad even stood up and said he did not think these holes made it into his OpenBSD. They also put that lame B00B1E5 Joke in the Linux kernel, wich only they ever cared about.
ChaCha is a stream cypher, just as salsa20. It’s for video-stream encryption IIRC.