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FreeBSD 15 Might Drop Its AGP Driver For Old Graphics Cards
FreeBSD 15 Might Drop Its AGP Driver For Old Graphics Cards

Ah the memories of old AGP graphics cards... But it's largely just that these days: distant memories. For anyone by chance still running an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) graphics card in production, FreeBSD is looking at deprecating its generic AGP driver and then potentially removing it in FreeBSD 15.0.

5 September 2024 - AGP Driver - 31 Comments
OpenBSD Now Supports VA-API Video Acceleration
OpenBSD Now Supports VA-API Video Acceleration

The BSDs unfortunately continue to lag behind Linux in their GPU driver support. The latest example of this is OpenBSD only days ago seeing initial support for the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) merged for GPU-accelerated video playback on that BSD platform.

23 July 2024 - OpenBSD + VA-API - 10 Comments
FreeBSD 14.1 Beta Released For Testing
FreeBSD 14.1 Beta Released For Testing

The first beta of FreeBSD 14.1 is now available for testing in kicking off what will be the first point release building off last November's FreeBSD 14.0 release.

6 May 2024 - FreeBSD 14.1 - 4 Comments
NetBSD 9.4 Released With Security & Stability Fixes
NetBSD 9.4 Released With Security & Stability Fixes

NetBSD 10.0 debuted last month with a long list of improvements and other enhancements that built up over the past several years. For those not yet taking the leap to this big NetBSD update, NetBSD 9.4 is out today for those relying on the stable NetBSD 9 series.

23 April 2024 - NetBSD 9.4 - 5 Comments
OpenBSD 7.5 Released - Faster Performance For Many-Core ARM Servers
OpenBSD 7.5 Released - Faster Performance For Many-Core ARM Servers

Theo de Raadt has released OpenBSD 7.5 as the newest version of this security-focused BSD operating system. With OpenBSD 7.5 there is a number of improvements for ARM (AArch64) hardware, never-ending kernel optimizations and other tuning work, countless package updates, and other adjustments to this popular BSD platform.

5 April 2024 - OpenBSD 7.5 - 10 Comments
FreeBSD Has Been Working On AMD64 SIMD libc Optimizations - Coming For FreeBSD 14.1
FreeBSD Has Been Working On AMD64 SIMD libc Optimizations - Coming For FreeBSD 14.1

The FreeBSD project today issued their Q4'2023 status report that highlights all of their interesting work accomplished last quarter on this open-source platform. Among the interesting achievements were the FreeBSD Foundation sponsoring AMD64 SIMD improvements for FreeBSD 15 that will also be back-ported to FreeBSD 14.1.

16 February 2024 - FreeBSD Q4-2023 Improvements - 18 Comments
FreeBSD Continues Push Toward Deprecating 32-bit Platforms
FreeBSD Continues Push Toward Deprecating 32-bit Platforms

As noted in prior Phoronix articles for months, FreeBSD 14 is likely to be the last for supporting prominent 32-bit systems. On the FreeBSD mailing list more details on the FreeBSD 32-bit deprecation process was posted this week.

13 February 2024 - FreeBSD Dropping 32-bit - 22 Comments
DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 File-System Seeing New Improvements, Initial Recovery Support
DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 File-System Seeing New Improvements, Initial Recovery Support

When it comes to the BSD operating systems, DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 is one of the most interesting innovations. HAMMER2 supports online deduplication, clustering, multiple mountable file-system roots, snapshots, compression, encryption, extensive checksumming, and other features. Over the past decade it's evolved quite nicely and in recent days has seen further enhancements.

4 October 2023 - Better HAMMER2 - 11 Comments

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