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Moderator writes “Could Gnome drop support for non-Linux operating systems? That was a recent proposal on the Gnome mailing list, although there were significant objections in response. Quoting: ‘It is harmful to pretend that you are writing the OS core to work on any number of different kernels…the time has come for GNOME to embrace Linux a bit more boldly.'”

New committer: Ben Laurie (src)

May 19, 2011 by Rob

New Port Manager

May 13, 2011 by Rob

The Ports Management Team is pleased to announce Baptiste Daroussin as a new member.

OpenBSD 4.9 Released

May 1, 2011 by Rob

An anonymous reader writes “The release of OpenBSD 4.9 has been announced. New highlights include since 4.8 — enabled NTFS by default (read-only), the vmt(4) driver by default for VMWare tools, SMP kernels can now boot on machines with up to 64 cores, support for AES-NI instructions found in recent Intel processors, improvements in suspend and resume, OpenSSH 5.8, MySQL 5.1.54, LibreOffice 3.3.0.4, and bug fixes.”

Also in BSD news, an anonymous reader writes “DragonFly BSD 2.10 has been released! The latest release brings data deduplication (online and at garbage-collection time) to the HAMMER file system. Capping off years of work, the MP lock is no longer the main point of contention in multiprocessor systems. It also brings a new version of the pf packet filter, support for 63 CPUs and 512 GB of RAM and switches the system compiler to gcc 4.4.”