In Other BSDs for 2018/06/09
BSDCan is running this weekend. There is, depending on what time you are reading this, a livestream.
Retguard: An improved stack protector for OpenBSD. (via)
Mailing lists vs Github. Relevant to most every BSD project. (via)
need help determining the best HA solution for 3 pfSense VM guests.
OpenBSD’s ksh(1) does not (Read more... [...]
FreeBSD 11.2-RC2 Available
The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
MosChip PCIe serial com support in Dr...
If you have a serial card add-in, DragonFly can now output the console to it – a way to run completely headless. It’s not quite like a normal on-motherboard serial port boot, so look at the commit notes for implementation details.
Service outage
Portions of the FreeBSD cluster will be offline Saturday, June 9th for an extended maintenance window for electrical work. Services will be affected, most notably mailing list traffic and a portion of our web services.
BSDNow 249: Router On A Stick
BSDNow 249 is covering a really wide range of topics including an uncommon amount of NetBSD, so I’m going to do the easy thing and repeat the summary: “OpenZFS and DTrace updates in NetBSD, NetBSD network security stack audit, Performance of MySQL on ZFS, OpenSMTP results from p2k18, legacy Windows backup to FreeNAS, ZFS block siz [...]
NYCBUG meeting, Bryant Park
NYCBUG is having an outdoors meeting in Bryant Park, today, 6:45 PM. Go, if you are near.
RETGUARD for clang (amd64) added to -...
Todd Mortimer (mortimer@) has
committed
"RETGUARD" for clang (for amd64).
This is a new anti-ROP
security mechanism, which uses random per-function cookies
to protect return addresses on the stack.
Read more…
libcsi – Crypto Simplified Inte...
Joel Sing (jsing@) has
committed
Crypto Simplified Interface (CSI) to -current:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: jsing@cvs.openbsd.org 2018/06/02 11:40:33
Added files:
lib/libcsi : Makefile Symbols.list csi.c csi.h csi_dh.c
csi_dh_groups.c csi_internal.h csi_util.c
shlib_versi [...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/06/03
Treat this week: footage of a college animatronic project I was slightly involved in. See below.
Maintaining Notepad is not a full-time job, but it’s not an empty job either.
Concise Computational Literature is Now Online in Taper. 1KB items only.
80s Home Robot History. The first example is classic open source.
Alphachat, economic film a [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/06/02
One of these links will be very useful to someone.
Join us, building a full OpenBSD mailserver. (via)
Valuable News 2018/05/25.
May 2018 Status Report: Cross-DSO CFI in HardenedBSD. (via)
BSDJobs.com. (via)
Research Positions – Aberdeen Scotland.
NetBSD: a new version of the CDDL dtrace and ZFS code. (Read more...)
FreeBSD 11.2-RC1 Available
The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
Little shaves in DragonFly buildworld
They aren’t huge, but eventually it adds up: Rimvydas Jasinskas has been working on GCC 8 integration in DragonFly, and there’s been small buildworld time savings as a side effect.
Coverage of signal routines in the ke...
During the past month I have been working on coverage of various corner cases in the signal subsystem in the kernel.
I have also spent some time on improvements in the land of sanitizers.
As a mentor I was able to, thanks to the full-time focus on NetBSD work,
actively help three Google Summer of Code students.
Not every question (Read more. [...]
BSDNow 248: Show Me the Mooney
BSDNow 248 has an interview with Patrick Mooney, talking about bhyve, along with the usual news summaries.
New event filter work for DragonFly
Bug reports are usually unexciting, but it’s always fun to see someone working through a new idea, especially when it’s something enabled by doing it on DragonFly.
Buildworld speedup options
Rimvydas Jasinskas has added a few options to the buildworld process in DragonFly. These options let you skip rebuilding the compiler and binutils rebuilds, for a significant speedup: buildworld times cut in half.
See his excellent commit message for all the numbers. Note that this is for development work, so it’s not advisable for re [...]
Network Security Audit
As a part of a funded project, I am conducting a security audit of NetBSD’s
network stack. The work will end soon, and I would like to briefly present
some results.
Fixing, Strengthening, Simplifying
Over the last five months, hundreds of patches were committed to the source tree
as a result of this work. Dozens of bugs were fixed, among ( [...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/05/27
Another wide range; hope you have reading time.
Proposal for turning off standard I/O buffering.
Inside the 76477 Space Invaders sound effect chip: digital logic implemented with I2L.
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster. (via)
From previous link comments: Scalability! But at what COST?
Also: Taco Bell Programming [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/05/26
I have the normal list of links, but here’s a feature. At first glance, this looks like Netgate, the commercial entity behind pfsense, is not using FreeBSD for their new product. However, Jim Thompson of Netgate steps up and give a full-on explanation, and points out there’s already code out there to do this – it needs (R [...]
FreeBSD 11.2-BETA3 Available
The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
