On behalf of the FreeBSD Core Team and the Vendor Summit Planning
Committee, I’d like to invite you to attend the online 2020 FreeBSD Vendor
Summit. The event will consist of virtual, half day sessions, taking place
November 11-13, 2020. Some of the ve…
Ingo (schwarze@) writes in about a side project he’s been working on to do his own accounting:
Sometimes, it happens to me that i make little progress with the
work i planned to do (so let’s not talk about the badly needed
mandoc release today)…
More in-depth reads this week. Introducing Precursor. This is neat. The unrealized potential of federation. 250M hard drive, 1979. X-COM, an in-depth history. Bergling’s Art Alphabets. The 20 greatest home computers – ranked! Your opinion on this is probably already set. (via) Software, maintenance, and me. Computer graphics circa 1981, a film. (via) “I’ve narrowed …
Straight dump of my BSD RSS feed. On the use of a life. A BSD business. FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020. (via) FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 1 Why? Related: Subversion and Git on FreeBSD. (video, via) k2k20 hackathon reports: Florian Obser on DNS, Klemens Nanni on network land decluttering, Bob Beck on LibreSSL progress, and Martijn van …
The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and powerpcspe architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
Fresh off the k2k20 hackathon, Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@)
writes in:
Due to the pandemic, this hackathon seemed to be called very spontaneously.
Fortunately, the hackathon was over a weekend. This enabled me to attend
without missing any prof…
DragonFly 5.8.2 was missing two CVE fixes – CVE-2019-1547 and CVE-2019-18408. They are fixed and the new 5.8.3 release has them.
See my users@ post for upgrade details.
Michael W. Lucas is doing a talk on Introductory Jails as part of FreeBSD Friday – mentioning it now instead of saving for In Other BSDs, cause Friday is tomorrow.
This week’s BSD Now covers a bunch of releases, a good rc.d argument, and a “How I Did This” story. HIDT? That’s a good acronym.
I tagged and built 5.8.2 today, and it should be appearing on a mirror near you, momentarily. The tag commit has a list of the changes, and of course there’s a users@ post to match. It’s a bugfix release, so no major changes – but …
New security update for MidnightBSD.
Description:
udf: Validate the full file entry length
Otherwise a corrupted file entry containing invalid extended attribute
lengths or allocation descriptor lengths can trigger an overflow when
the file entry is…
If you buy a Lenovo Yoga 500, or any laptop with an iwm(4) chipset, here’s how to get it going with DragonFly.
The fourth report from k2k20 comes from Florian Obser (florian@), who worked mostly on DNS related things:
I spent the week before the hackathon with monitoring the current
pandemic situation. Will ze germans let me in? Will I put people at
risk?…
Here’s a recommendation (and a usage lesson) on pkg-provides, a tool for matching a file to the installed pkg that brought it. It goes with the pkglocate article some weeks ago; it seems like this should be standard functionality. Thanks to Nel…
Our next k2k20 report comes from Klemens Nanni (kn@):
I’d been looking forward to k2k20 just like my
other hackathon with its unique
atmosphere where getting work done in fact means holiday hacking with friends.
There was nothing big on my l…
Fresh off the just-finished k2k20 hackathon, here is a report from Bob Beck
(beck@):
We have a saying about hackathons – They are for starting something,
or for finishing something. This time for me was a "finishing
something" – I land…
A bit of this is overflow from last week. RFC 8890: The Internet is for End Users. (via) Exploring mullender.c – A deep dive into the first IOCCC winner. (via) Spacewar! vs Spacewar. FVWM3 1.0 is released. (via) Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters. (via) Talking about an open book protocol. A collection …
The
k2k20 hackathon
concluded recently, and we are please to have
received a report from Martijn van Duren (martijn@):
I came to k2k20 on my motorcycle with my mask, a small backpack and a
stack of projects burning on my laptop to get pushed. A…
FreeBSD moving to Git: WhyWith luck, I’ll be writing a few blogs on FreeBSD’s move to git later this year. Today, we’ll start with “why”?Why?There’s a number of factors motivating the change. We’ll explore the reasons, from long term viability of…
No theme, just everything in a bucket. NetBSD-current now has GCC 9.3.0 for x86/ARM, with ASan, TSan (for 64bit archs), UBSan and LSan. (via) FreeBSD Core Team office hours this week. Interprocess Communication in FreeBSD 11 – Performance Analysis. (via) Rolling distribution releases versus periodic releases are a tradeoff. Linked here because BSD releases are …