Some out-of-the-ordinary things this week.
- BSDTV, a new YouTube channel. It has several videos from the recent NYCBSDCon.
- pfSense 2.1.1 is out. No, wait, it’s 2.1.2!
- Installing packages from a custom FreeBSD repository. Applies to DragonFly, too.
- DiscoverBSD’s news summary for 2014/04/07.
- A partially tongue-in-cheek suggestion for an OpenOpenSSL.
- FreeBSDNews.net is now owned by? maintained by? iXSystems, which seems to be singlehandedly building as much FreeBSD ecosystem as possible – that’s good!
- Bitrig is dropping i386 support.
- FreeBSD Journal #2 is out.
- The OpenBSD Foundation reached their goal for the year.
- The FreeBSD Foundation is kicking off their campaign.
- PC-BSD Digest 25 is out.
- Mount your NetBSD ISO directly from the file server.
- FreeBSD supports UDP-Lite, which appears to be the network protocol equivalent of turning over a bucket of ball bearings and saying “Grab what you can.”
- OpenBSD starts to bring back 4.4BSD more.
- Peter N. M. Hansteen wants to know what you do with OpenBSD in a conference-presentationish sort of way. Specifically, EuroBSDCon.
- Jordan Hubbard talks about compiler choices for FreeBSD, and points out that the processor choices these days are Intel or ARM, and that’s it.
How can FreeBSD possibly need $1,000,000 annual to operate even with companies like iXsystems helping out, among others. OpenBSD only needed $150,000 in comparison, I realize there’s a bigger group of people using FreeBSD, but that’s a lot of money for an open source project in my opinion. Where does that all go? What does it cost DragonFlyBSD to operate for a year?
BSDCan, EuroBSDCon, hardware like MEGAcore and sponsored projects take a high toll. Everything makes it back to the community one way or another though.
FreeBSD does support conventions and sends developers to co ventions – which I think is a great idea. They have finance staetements open to the public, I think, too. I would link to them if I was at my normal computer.
DragonFly has minimal costs because Matt shoulders the hosting costs and we don’t support much else. Hardware for testing and so on would be an obvious choice if we had the resources for it – which we often do, through the generosity of various individuals.