Misc. BSD/UNIX Bitrig 1.0 release

[J65nko]

From https://www.bitrig.org/10.html

The Bitrig team is pleased to announce the availability of the Bitrig 1.0 release. This is the first release of the Bitrig operating system and has many great changes since our initial fork from OpenBSD. This includes changes from OpenBSD up to their 5.6 release.

Features:

• LLVM/Clang 3.4 in base, replacing the outdated GNU GCC 4.2.1 to improve performance and C/C++ compatibility
• libc++ and libc++abi replaces GNU libstdc++
• FFS2 is the default file system and it has journal support (WAPBL) and booting capability
• tmpfs replaces mfs and includes new features such as snapshots and tmpfsrd(4) ramdisk
• Unlimited sized bsd.rd using the new tmpfsrd(4) driver
• Thread-local storage (TLS) support
• Support for UUIDs and xlocales in libc
• Support for using GPT partitioned storage with an fdisk-like tool
• Usability improvements in fdisk
• Flashable USB boot image for amd64
• ARM EABI + hard-float and improved armv7 SoC support
• Fair kernel mutexes implemented using C11 atomic operations
• ps(1): improved posix compliance & hierarchical output
• Only one GNU tool in base (texinfo)
• Single snapshot target for src and xenocara
• Source code hosted on Github
• Comprehensive collection of ports and packages
• And most importantly: Hacker style console with green text on black background

[J65nko]

From the release announcement on the bitrig mailing list:

AVAILABILITY

Bitrig 1.0 is available for amd64. It can be installed from bootable ISO
and USB stick images. The armv7 architecture is not part of this
release. We provide snapshots for both architectures throughout the year
and will include an armv7 release once considered stable enough.

The release can be retrieved from our mirrors listed at:

https://www.bitrig.org/downloads.html

You can use signify(1) to verify the integrity and authenticity of the
downloaded files:

$ signify -C -p /etc/signify/bitrig-10-base.pub -x SHA256.sig cd10.iso


GETTING INVOLVED

Contributions are always welcome. If you have any questions regarding
the development of Bitrig join the #bitrig channel at OFTC.net, or
subscribe to the src@ and tech@ mailing lists.

Further information, including how to subscribe to our mailing lists,
is available on our website. Bug reports and contributions can be made
through Github.

We are always on the lookout for new developers who like to hack in a
friendly environment.

* Website: https://bitrig.org
* Github: https://github.com/bitrig
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitrig

[Oko]

Originally Posted by J65nko

Features:

• FFS2 is the default file system and it has journal support (WAPBL) and booting capability

FFS2 for the root partition is coming to OpenBSD IIRC but the second part WAPBL is very, very interesting. That would be significant new feature if ported to OpenBSD.

[J65nko]

In case you wonder: WAPBL is Write Ahead Physical Block Logging

A dated article about WAPBL can be found at http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/05/netbsd-wapbl.html