[FreeBSD-Announce] The FreeBSD Foundation is Requesting Project Proposal Submissions

Dear FreeBSD Community,

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce we are soliciting the
submission of proposals for work relating to any of the major subsystems
or infrastructure within the FreeBSD operating system. Proposals
will be evaluated based on desirability, technical merit and
cost-effectiveness.

To find out more about the proposal process please read Project Proposal
Procedures at:

http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/FreeBSD%20Foundation%20Proposals%20March%202012.pdf.

This is is your chance to get funding to help improve FreeBSD!

Sincerely,

The FreeBSD Foundation

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pre-orders activate for OpenBSD 5.1

OpenBSD says:
It is that time again. I have just activated pre-orders for CDs,
tshirts, and posters for the 5.1 release -- due May 1.

http://openbsd.org/orders.html

At the same time, I am making available the song that will come out
with the release (hmm, it is still moving out to the ftp mirrors at
the moment, but that is ok). The song and details of it are linked
from:

http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html

And there is something else. Five years ago we made available an
Audio CD that contained 5 years of songs. Well, we have made a new
audio CD since enough new songs have been made. It is not very
expensive, so please consider buying this as well when you place any
order. It has some rather nice liner notes. Had some great fun
coming up with the cover for that CD:

http://openbsd.org/images/cdaudio2.gif

I'd also like you remind you that Michael Lucas new "SSH Mastery" book
is also now available, in case anyone was waiting for the 5.1 release
to place one order.

http://openbsd.org/books.html#book9

Please consider purchasing these items and/or making a donation, since
this is a very important revenue source which keeps the project going.

[FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Funds Project to Grow Filesystems Online

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz
Napierala has been awarded a grant to implement the ability to grow
filesystems while they are mounted.

"Users of FreeBSD in a virtualized environment will be pleased with
the increased ease of deployment afforded by the ability to grow
mounted filesystems," said Ed Maste, Director, The FreeBSD Foundation.

This project will add GEOM and filesystem changes that are necessary to
increase the size of both UFS and ZFS filesystems while a filesystem
is mounted read-write. This project will provide the additional
benefit of online provisioning of virtual instances.

The Foundation is pleased to be working with Edward again. He
was previously awarded a grant to implement resource containers
and a simple per-jail resource limits mechanism. This work was
included in FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE.

This project is expected to be completed by October 2012.
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[FreeBSD-Announce] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.3 EoL coming soon

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Hello Everyone,

On March 31st, FreeBSD 7.3 will reach its End of Life and will no longer
be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of FreeBSD 7.3 are
strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.4, FreeBSD 8.1, FreeBSD 8.2,
or FreeBSD 9.0 before the that date.

Please note that due to the unexpectedly long interval between FreeBSD 8.2
and the upcoming FreeBSD 8.3, the EoL date for FreeBSD 8.2 (originaly set
at February 29, 2012) has been postponed until July 31, 2012 in keeping
with the policy of having a three-month "upgrade window". In the unlikely
event that FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE arrives later than the end of April, the
EoL dates for FreeBSD 8.1 and 8.2 will be further postponed.

The current supported branches and expected EoL dates are:

+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Branch | Release | Type | Release date | Estimated EoL |
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
|RELENG_7 |n/a |n/a |n/a |February 28, 2013|
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
|RELENG_7_3 |7.3-RELEASE |Extended|March 23, 2010 |March 31, 2012 |
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
|RELENG_7_4 |7.4-RELEASE |Extended|February 24, 2011|February 28, 2013|
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
|RELENG_8 |n/a |n/a |n/a |last release + 2y|
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
|RELENG_8_1 |8.1-RELEASE |Extended|July 23, 2010 |July 31, 2012 |
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
|RELENG_8_2 |8.2-RELEASE |Normal |February 24, 2011|July 31, 2012 |
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
|RELENG_9 |n/a |n/a |n/a |last release + 2y|
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
|RELENG_9_0 |9.0-RELEASE |Normal |January 10, 2012 |January 31, 2013 |
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- --
Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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[FreeBSD-Announce] Please Join Us in Welcoming George Neville-Neil!

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of George
Neville-Neil to its board of directors.

George has been dabbling in the BSD world since his undergraduate days
in the mid-1980s. He was granted his commit bit in 2004, and has served
two terms on the FreeBSD Core team between 2006 and 2010.

In 2011, he started organizing the semi-annual FreeBSD Vendor Summits
that gather commercial customers of FreeBSD along with project members
in order to facilitate the movement of technologies between the Project
and its customers.

George co-authored "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD
Operating System." His technical contributions are mostly within the
FreeBSD network stack with occasional forays into other parts of the
system.

"The Foundation is at a pivotal point in our growth as a company," said
Deb Goodkin, Secretary/Treasurer, The FreeBSD Foundation. "We believe
with George's previous and current involvement in FreeBSD, that he will
be a significant contributor in helping us achieve our ambitious goals
this year."
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[FreeBSD-Announce] Announcing EuroBSDcon 2012

EuroBSDcon 2012
===============

EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and
developers on BSD-based systems. The EuroBSDcon 2012 conference
will be held in Warsaw, Poland from Thursday 18 October 2012
to Sunday 21 October 2012, with tutorials on Thursday and Friday
and talks on Saturday and Sunday.

Call for Proposals
------------------

The EuroBSDcon conference is inviting developers and users of
BSD-based systems to submit innovative and original papers not
submitted to other European conferences on BSD-related topics.

Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited
to applications, architecture, implementation, performance and
security of BSD-based operating systems, as well as topics
concerning the economic or organizational aspects of BSD use.

Presentations are expected to be 45 minutes.

Call for Tutorial Proposals
---------------------------

The EuroBSDcon conference is inviting qualified practitioners in
their field to submit proposals for half or full day tutorials on
topics relevant to development, implementation and use of BSD-based
systems.

Submission address
------------------

Proposals should be submitted by email to <submission@eurobsdcon.org>.

Important dates
---------------

The EuroBSDcon conference is accepting abstracts and tutorial
proposals until 20 May 2012. Other important dates will be
announced soon at the conference website http://2012.eurobsdcon.org/.

--
Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com
FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org
Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://tupytaj.pl

[FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Announces NAND File System for FreeBSD Project

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Semihalf, an
embedded solutions company, has been awarded a grant to bring their
comprehensive NAND Flash file system and storage stack to FreeBSD.
This technology enables FreeBSD to natively manage NAND Flash
devices, satisfying a crucial requirement for many applications
needing access to fast, reliable, non-volatile storage.

FreeBSD is widely used as the OS foundation of embedded appliances
both small and large. Semihalf's NAND Flash stack opens new
opportunities for FreeBSD in this space, where size, cost, or
performance, mandate the use of direct attached NAND Flash.

Made possible by matching funds from Juniper Networks, this FreeBSD
Foundation grant covers the costs of transferring technology
developed for Juniper Networks by Semihalf to the FreeBSD
project. This will ensure that the NAND framework meets
community standards and can be easily maintained and enhanced.

Highlighting the return on investment offered by this kind of
technology transfer, FreeBSD Foundation president Justin T. Gibbs,
noted:

"Open sourcing enhancements that do not expose 'business critical
intellectual property' reduces the cost of managing a FreeBSD
distribution that has been customized for a product. The NAND
subsystem is a perfect example of how technology transfer
benefits both the FreeBSD community and its commercial users.
We'd like to thank Semihalf and Juniper for partnering with us
to make the code available under a BSD license"

The NAND Flash subsystem consists of a driver framework for NAND
controllers and memory chips, a NAND device simulator and a fault
tolerant, log-structured file system, tailored to meet the unique
challenges of NAND flash storage. The package includes all the
tools, utilities and documentation needed to deploy this technology
in custom applications.

"A reliable file system that supports NAND Flash is critical for
Juniper's ongoing success," said Marcel Moolenaar, Distinguished
Engineer, Juniper Networks. "But since storage isn't Juniper's core
business, we were eager to find a solution that would put the
implementation and support of the file system in the most
capable hands. We reached out to Semihalf and ultimately the
Foundation to help us achieve our goals. Juniper cannot be more
pleased to have the NAND Flash file system and NAND Flash
framework present in the next major FreeBSD version as a
standard feature and under the care of the community."

"We are very glad to have the NAND framework made available
for the general FreeBSD audience, reaffirming the system as a
versatile platform for appliances and other embedded and
industrial designs," said Rafal Jaworowski of Semihalf.

The Foundation is pleased to be working with Semihalf again. They
were previously awarded a grant to bring "Flattened Device Tree"
support to FreeBSD. This new feature in FreeBSD 9.0 has been
well received by the FreeBSD community.
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