In Other BSDs for 2017/06/25
Back to overflow, which sort of makes my life easier.
BCHS: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite. Linked before, so comments on source links are where to look if you are already familiar with BHCS.
Possible stack vulnerabilities in BSD-land.
How to disable cores in OpenBSD?
Nextcloud via httpd on OpenBSD. (via)
MP-safe Networking in NetBSD. (Read more.. [...]
Ubiquiti Unifi and DragonFly
Should you need have Ubiquiti devices, and you need to get the Unifi management program running on your DragonFly server, this script will work for you. Some of the filepaths are different, but it’s otherwise complete.
FreeBSD 11.1-BETA3 Available
The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
BSDNow 199: Read the source, KARL
No interview in this week’s BSDNow, but there’s a good run through recent BSD news, including some talk about a “Aeronix” machine project, which led me to some other interesting links.
OpenBSD now has Trapsleds to make lif...
You heard it here (or on tech@) first: Trapsleds are in, and it makes OpenBSD even safer. Work done by Todd Mortimer and submitted to tech@ in the Trapsleds thread was later committed by Theo de Raadt.
Todd\'s message to tech says,
I have attached a patch that converts NOP padding from the assembler
into INT3 padding on amd64. The [...]
ig4 support for newer CPUs on DragonF...
Thanks to Imre Vadasz, your Haswell, Atom SoCs, Skylake, and Kaby Lake CPUs will now recognize the ig4 device on the associated motherboard. I think it does something with ACPI? I have always been hazy on smbus device functions.
In Memoriam Nicolas Joly
Nicolas Joly passed away on 2017-06-07.
Born in 1969, he developed a passion for computer science in his youth
but chose to study biology. He then attended a bioinformatics training
at the Pasteur Institute in 1997 at the end of which he got hired in
the scientific IT department. He has continuously worked there since.
Not only was he skille [...]
Lazy Reading for 2017/06/18
The weather’s nice but the links aren’t stopping!
The future of education is plain text. (via)
Compiling the Original Commodore 64 KERNAL Source. (via)
Getting a working toilet in a video game. (via)
Harvey OS, a descendent of Plan9. (via)
Pointer Overflow Checking is in LLVM.
Shanzhai (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2017/06/17
All found-this-week links, now.
KARL – kernel address randomized link. (via)
g4u (Ghost for Unix) 2.6, a venerable imaging tool, released.
Native Command Queuing – merging and testing. (NetBSD)
New TrueNAS x10, a BSD-based storage product.
secmodel sandbox : An application sandbox for NetBSD (draft). (via)
FreeBSD 11.1-BETA is out.
Fr [...]
FreeBSD 11.1-BETA2 Available
The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
Testing, please ignore – xg4A24ay4X14...
xg4A24ay4X14y47b99F7
BSDNow 198: You can’t handle the libt...
BSDNow 198 is now available, almost all about the just-finished BSDCan.
OpenVPN and compression
Matthew Dillon noted some OpenVPN problems, requiring him to disable compression. I don’t think this is a DragonFly problem, or even necessarily a BSD problem, but it’s worth mentioning in case you run it.
KARL – kernel address randomize...
In a
message to the tech@ mailing list,
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has announced a new randomization feature for
kernel protection:
Over the last three weeks I\'ve been working on a new randomization
feature which will protect the kernel.
[...]
Recently I moved all our kernels to a new mapping model, with patrick
and visa taking ca [...]
OpenBSD Errata: June 12th, 2017 (wsmu...
Errata patches for wsmux have been released for OpenBSD 6.1 and 6.0.
An unprivileged console user can cause a kernel crash.
Binary updates for the amd64 and i386 platforms are available via the
syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the respective
errata pages:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata60.html
https://www.openbsd.or [...]
OpenBSD Errata: June 12th, 2017 (sti)
Errata patches for sti have been released for OpenBSD 6.1 and 6.0.
An integer overflow exists in two range checks.
Source code patches can be found on the respective errata pages:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata60.html
https://www.openbsd.org/errata61.html
As this affects the kernel, a reboot will be needed after patching.
The fix is o [...]
Lazy Reading for 2017/06/11
All over the map today.
$3,200 per month for 5 megabytes of space: the first hard drives.
csv,conf,v3, a cleverly named data conference. (via)
Silicon Graphics’ IRIX and Magic Desktop return as Linux desktop. Nostalgia! (via)
C64 Yourself. C64 palette applied to a picture. (via)
Strategy headroom in roguelikes. (Read more...)
New home for the repository conversio...
Hello all,
the repository conversion setup for NetBSD CVS -> Fossil -> Git
has found a new home. Ironically, on former cvs.NetBSD.org hardware.
This provides a somewhat faster conversion cycle as well as removing
anoncvs.NetBSD.org from the process. This should avoid occasional
problems with incomplete syncs. Two other changes have bee [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/06/10
I think I’ve finally caught up on my BSD link backlog.
d2k17 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on XS_NO_CCB removal and dhclient link detection.
d2k17 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on USB audio, WiFi Progress.
NCIS: FreeBSD.
UbuntuBSD is now DEAD!
FreeBSD Core Team member: “[installer] might be the only part of OpenBSD that is [...]
FreeBSD 11.1-BETA1 Available
The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
