Bsd Now

Headlines Managed services using FreeBSD (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/Managed%20Services%20Using%20FreeBSD%20at%20NYI.pdf) New York Internet, a huge ISP and service provider, details how they use FreeBSD Mentions using BSD technologies: pf, pfsync, carp, haproxy, zfs, jails and more Explains FreeBSD's role in commercial workloads on a massive scale Lots of cool graphs and info, check out the full write-up *** OpenBSD boot support for keydisk-based crypto volumes (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138227554705375&w=2) So far, only passphrase-based crypto volumes were bootable Full disk encryption with key disks required a non-crypto partition to load the kernel The bootloader now scans all BIOS-visible disks for RAID partitions and automatically associates key disk partitions with their crypto volume No need to re-create existing volumes. Moving the root partition onto the crypto disk and running "installboot" is all that's needed *** More Dragonfly SMP speedups (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlo