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BSD

Staying Current with NetBSD 22

Posted by michael from the when-apt-get-dist-upgrade-isn't-available dept.
BSDForums writes "Open source never stands still. Even the flexible and mature BSDs are continuing to evolve. In this article, Michael Lucas looks at the NetBSD upgrade process, demonstrating the most common steps to stay abreast of the current source code. This article isn't a comprehensive tutorial that covers every possible situation; rather, it covers the most common situation: updating your source with CVS, building that source code, and installing it on the build machine."
BSD

Running .NET on FreeBSD? 36

Posted by michael from the fish-riding-a-bicycle dept.
Dan writes "Interesting read on running .NET on FreeBSD. Chip Morton thinks this could be very beneficial to FreeBSD or any OS to have a fully functional .NET CLR (Common Language Runtime) environment. With over 9,000 files, and including some 1300 public classes to pore through, the Shared Source CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) can teach you quite a bit about the internal workings of the CLR. This relevant MSDN article discusses some of the things you can learn from the source code facsimile of the CLR, like how JIT compilation works. One thing that the CLI specification does not mandate is that managed code has to run on Windows. To prove this point, Microsoft built the Shared Source CLI to compile and run on FreeBSD Unix as well as Windows XP."
BSD

FreeBSD Looking for People with Lots of RAM 302

Posted by CowboyNeal from the not-just-for-ram-drives-anymore dept.
drdink writes "A few weeks ago, PAE (Physical Address Extension) support was added to FreeBSD 5-CURRENT. This allows memory above 4GB to be used normally by the kernel and userland on the x86 platform. Jake Burkholder, the man behind PAE, is now looking for users to help him test this new feature. In his message to the freebsd-current mailing list, Jake describes the current caveats to PAE and also says 'We'd like this feature to be solid for 5.1-RELEASE, so I'm hoping there are people out there with systems with more than 4G of ram that are willing to test it.' This, along with other features make FreeBSD 5-STABLE look very promising."
BSD

FreeBSD Boots on x86-64 42

Posted by michael from the future-is-now dept.
craig2787 writes "FreeBSD developer Peter Wemm has successfully booted FreeBSD on a real AMD ClawHammer CPU, in both 64- and 32-bit modes. Original posting to the -current mailing list is here."
BSD

New Performance Mailing List for FreeBSD 23

Posted by Hemos from the we-can-make-it-better-faster-stronger dept.
An anonymous reader writes "FreeBSD's fast as is, but it appears that folks over there are going the extra mile to make sure that it continues to be the top dog according to this recent announcement. With 5.1 promising to have native threads and 5.1 only a few months out, it is really good to see performance being taken seriously."
BSD

Reverse Engineering IRIX Multithreading For NetBSD 32

Posted by timothy from the going-thattaway dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "Onlamp.com publishes the sixth paper of Emmanuel Dreyfus's series on NetBSD's IRIX binary compatibility implementation. This time, this is about reverse engineering IRIX multithreading and the odd virtual memory features involved with it. It's an adventure at kernel and userland boundaries, with a debugger as the sole weapon. A must read!"
Operating Systems

Using OpenBSD's chrooted Apache 101

Posted by Hemos from the learning-what-to-do dept.
BSD Forums writes "OpenBSD recently changed the mode of operation for the Apache webserver from the normal non-chrooted operation to chrooted operation. This enhances the security of the server on which Apache is run but it imposes a few challenges to the system administrator. In this article Marc Balmer discusses selected aspects of running a chrooted HTTP daemon and present strategies on how to set up a chrooted environment for more complex applications like database access or using CGI-scripts."
BSD

FreeBSD 4.8 Released 207

Posted by michael from the freer-than-ever dept.
Dan writes "FreeBSD's Murray Stokely announces the long awaited availability of FreeBSD 4.8, the latest FreeBSD-stable release, which has dealt with known security issues, and added initial support for Firewire, HyperThreading, and other new hardware technologies. Murray says that the new release is also the result of conservative updates to a number of software programs in the FreeBSD base system, see FreeBSD 4.8 release notes for more information."
BSD

Interview with Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems 116

Posted by CowboyNeal from the getting-to-know dept.
Gentu writes "The main commercial company behind NetBSD is Wasabi Systems. The company has contributed advances and big chunks of code to the open source project, while they do offer a boxed release of NetBSD. However, their main business for the company is the embedded market and NetBSD is marketed as an embedded OS. OSNews talked to the Vice President of Wasabi Systems, Jay Michaelson. Linux in the embedded market is also discussed."
Security

OpenBSD Packet Filter Changes Syntax Language 29

Posted by timothy from the aber-selbstverstaendlich dept.
An anonymous reader writes "As seen on this article on the OpenBSDJournal, Henning, one of PF main contribuitors writes: 'After much discussion we made a hard decision: we will change pf syntax from English to German.' So, what are the implications of this? And why the change? Read on."
BSD

BSDs to be Merged 217

Posted by CmdrTaco from the its-about-time dept.
A dæmon writes "According to Daily Daemon News and The FreeBSD Diary, NetBSD, FreeBSD and GNU/OpenBSD are to be merged. Read the full story here." This is a good thing since one of the two BSDs clearly sucked, and the other was clearly superior.
BSD

FreeBSD From Scratch 58

Posted by timothy from the and-scratch-don't-mean-nothin' dept.
geekmedia writes "Daemon News has an excellent article which describes a fully automated installation of a customized FreeBSD system compiled from source, including compilation of all your favorite ports and configured to match your idea of the perfect system. If you think make world is a wonderful concept, FreeBSD From Scratch extends it to make universe."
BSD

Four New Security Advisories Released for NetBSD 18

Posted by michael from the patches-for-everyone dept.
Dan writes "The NetBSD security team has issued Four NetBSD Security Advisories. (1) Format string vulnerability in zlib gzprintf(): a buffer overflow can result in arbitrary code execution. (2) RSA timing attack in OpenSSL code can enable remote recovery of private keys, from a host with low-latency access to the server - such as the local host, or a host on the LAN. (3) Encryption weakness in OpenSSL code enables an attacker to perform crypto operations using server's private keys. Finally (4), faulty length checks in xdrmem_getbytes (within libc) are susceptible to integer overflows that affect memory allocation in their local buffers."
BSD

OpenBSD 3.3 Pre-Orders Available 36

Posted by michael from the be-a-good-consumer dept.
CoryBenny writes "The OpenBSD project has just started taking pre-orders for its 3.3 release. This release contains the new pro-police stack protection and lots of other new features! The OpenBSD Journal are running a story here. Pre-orders can be made here and just check out their cool new t-shirts!!"
Security

OpenBSD Packet Filter Ported To NetBSD, FreeBSD 48

Posted by timothy from the undetectable-natting dept.
honold writes "just read this on deadly.org (from Pyun YongHyeon): "Hello there. I have ported pf to FreeBSD 5.0 Currently it works well, though many nice features of pf not tested. I have ported to make FreeBSD users know there is an another excellent stateful packet filter with BSD license. URL is the following. ftp://ftp.kr.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-kr/misc/pf_fr eebsd_0.3.tar.bz2 Thanks." netbsd has a port as well Where are you, Linux?"
Mozilla

Mozilla 1.3 Port Available For FreeBSD 23

Posted by timothy from the arrr dept.
Dan writes "Joe Marcus Clarke announces the availability of Mozilla 1.3 port for FreeBSD. Windows, MacOSX and Linux versions of Mozilla 1.3 were originally released on March 13. Although the port is scheduled to be committed as part of FreeBSD 4.8 Release, diffs for 1.3 are readily available. Galeon2 diff has also been updated for the Mozilla port. Key enhancements include junk mail filtering and API for rich text editing."

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