Bsd Now

On this week's mini-episode, we'll be talking with Baptiste Daroussin about packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkgng. Is this the best way going forward, or are we getting dangerously close to being Linux-like? We'll find out, and also get to a couple of your emails while we're at it, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Xen dom0 in FreeBSD 11-CURRENT (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=382965) FreeBSD has just gotten dom0 (http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Dom0) support for the Xen hypervisor, something NetBSD has had (http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto/#netbsd-dom0) for a while now The ports tree will now have a Xen kernel and toolstack, meaning that they can be updated much more rapidly than if they were part of base It's currently limited to Intel boxes with EPT and a working IOMMU, running a recent version of the -CURRENT branch, but we'll likely see it when 11.0 comes out How will this affect interest in Bhyve? *** A tale of two educational