Posts Tagged ‘DragonflyBSD’
BSD overtake Linux for development
According to TheInquire.net ~ The irony in all this is that Evans Data's data shows that while Linux fans have been talking about the death of BSD for well over a decade, it seems that thanks to Apple, BSD in the form of Mac OS X appears to have overtaken Linux in one usage metric. read more...
release::Samba 3.6.0
Earlier this week Samba 3.6.0 was released. Most importantly a new nfs quota back-end for Linux has been added that is based on the existing Solaris/FreeBSD implementation. In addition the new SMB Traffic Analyzer (SMBTA) is has been completed. Overall this constitutes an ongoing internal restructuring for better separation of internal subsystem [...]
Announcement: End of Travel Grant Applications for BSDCan
Dear FreeBSD Community, Today is the last day to submit your travel grant application for BSDCan 2010! The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application at by April 9, 2010 to apply for this grant. How it [...]
DragonFly BSD Release 2.6
Notable in this release are the fully supported 64 bit edition, enhancements to the HAMMER file system and USB disk key booting in lieu of DVD ISO previously available. It is worth noting that the GUI version of the USB image is only available for the 32 bit version. The developers promise to release the 64 bit version of the GUI USB image as soon [...]
Schedule for BSDCan 2010 published
For those who are unfamiliar BSDCan is a BSD Conference held in Ottawa, Canada typically during the second week of May. This year's conference will run from May 13th & 14th and is preceded by two days of conferences on the 11th & 12th. As this year's conference approaches the organizers have published a list of events. The schedule of [...]
February issue of BSD Magazine available for download- FREE
BSD Magazine is offering the current issues available as a PDF download for FREE! In this issue: A first look at PC-BSD 8 release- Jan Stedehouder Installing and securing an Apache Jail with SSL on FreeBSD- Rob Somerville The gemstones for FreeBSD- Marko Milenovic OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD as file sharing servers [...]
Mac OS X buffer overflow vulnerability published
Earlier today SecurityReason released a proof of concept for the buffer overflow vulnerability found in libc gdtoa() function which is used by printf(). The index array overflow was first reported by researcher Maksymilian Arciemowicz last June. The advisory describes a flaw in the libc/gdtoa code in OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X, as [...]
BSDCert::Deadline Approaching fast for the BSDP JTA Survey
October 16th marks the deadline for the BSD Professional Job Task Analysis Survey. If you are an active member of the BSD community then you should seriously consider completing the survey. These surveys are necessary prerequisite for completing the exam objectives. Without community support the exam will not be completed on schedule. We all [...]
OpenSSH 5.3 Released
I don't know of any sysadmin who hasn't at least heard of ssh. Let alone at least uses it to maintain their servers. Without ssh we would have to rely on such tools as telnet or rsh. Thanks to the folks at OpenBSD we have OpenSSH a secure implementation of the ssh protocol, including daemon and supporting client applications. On October 1st [...]
BSD Magazine September 2k9 Issue
The latest issue of BSD Magazine has been out for a few weeks and this article delves into the resource a bit deeper. Take a moment to read the article especially if you've never looked at the magazine before. read more...
