From 286b399080848ae8a518f607c2d93eb59fb8379d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Warren Block
The first quarter of 2014 was, again, a hectic and
+ productive time for &os;. The Ports team released their
+ landmark first quarterly stable
branch. &os; continues
+ to grow on the ARM architecture, now running on an ARM-based
+ ChromeBook. SMP is now possible on multi-core ARM systems.
+ bhyve, the native &os; hypervisor, continues to improve. An
+ integral test suite is taking shape, and the Jenkins Continuous
+ Integration system has been implemented. &os; patches to GCC
+ are being forward-ported
, and LLDB, the Clang/LLVM
+ debugger is being ported. Desktop use has also seen
+ improvements, with work on Gnome, KDE, Xfce, KMS video drivers,
+ X.org, and vt, the new console driver which supports
+ KMS and Unicode. Linux and Wine binary compatibility layers
+ have been improved. UEFI booting support has been merged to
+ head. The &os; Foundation continues to assist in moving &os;
+ forward, sponsoring conferences and meetings and numerous
+ development projects. And these are only some of the things
+ that happened! Read on for even more.