svn commit: r49545 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Oct 23 19:39:37 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Sun Oct 23 19:39:35 2016
New Revision: 49545
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49545

Log:
  Add the CloudABI report from ed

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Sun Oct 23 05:18:09 2016	(r49544)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Sun Oct 23 19:39:35 2016	(r49545)
@@ -210,4 +210,69 @@
 	see in &os;.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='proj'>
+    <title>CloudABI: Running Untrusted Programs Directly on top of &os;</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Ed</given>
+	  <common>Schouten</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>ed at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>The CloudABI mailing list</name>
+	<email>cloudabi-devel at googlegroups.com</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://nuxi.nl/">Official CloudABI Website.</url>
+      <url href="https://nuxi.nl/cloudabi/FreeBSD/">Using CloudABI on &os;.</url>
+      <url href="https://nuxi.nl/blog/2016/08/01/cloudabi-python.html">Python for CloudABI.</url>
+      <url href="https://github.com/NuxiNL">CloudABI on GitHub.</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>CloudABI is a compact UNIX-like runtime environment inspired by
+	&os;'s Capsicum security framework.  It allows you to safely
+	run potentially untrusted programs directly on top of &os;,
+	Linux and macOS, without requiring the use of virtualisation,
+	jails, etc.  This makes it a useful building block for
+	cluster/cloud computing.</p>
+
+      <p>Over the last couple of months, several new libraries and
+	applications have been ported over to CloudABI, the most
+	important addition being Python 3.6.  This means that you can now
+	write strongly sandboxed apps in Python!</p>
+
+      <p>Support for different hardware platforms has also improved.  In
+	addition to amd64 and arm64, we now support i686 and armv6.
+	The release of LLVM 3.9 was important to us, as it has
+	integrated all the necessary changes to support the first three
+	platforms.  Full armv6 support is still blocked on some issues
+	with LLVM's linker, LLD.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      Nuxi, the Netherlands
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Play around with CloudABI and let us know what you think of
+	it!  Full support for amd64 and arm64 is part of &os; 11.0.
+	i686 and armv6 support is only available on HEAD, but will be
+	merged to the stable/11 branch in the future.</task>
+
+      <task>Interested in Python programming? Give our copy of Python a
+	try and share your experiences!</task>
+
+      <task>Do you maintain pieces of software that could benefit from
+	strong sandboxing?  Try building them using the CloudABI cross
+	compiler!</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
