Archive | August, 2009
New BSD Licensed debugger: D
D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. Special attention is given to the needs of quality assurance, documentation, management, portability and reliability. The D language is statically typed and compiles directly to [...]
Continue reading...EuroBSDCon 2009
29. August 2009
The U.K. Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) is hosting the EuroBSDCon 2009 in Cambridge from 18-20 September. The conference by many seen as the annual get-together for the European BSD community. The conference runs over three days starting with many tutorials. Tutorial 1: Kirk McKusick’s FreeBSD Overview, and a focus on FileSystems and VM Tutorial 2: [...]
Continue reading...Keeping FreeBSD up-to-date
28. August 2009
Richard Bejtlich wrote four years ago an article titled Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date. His goal was to document various ways that a FreeBSD 5.2 system could be updated and upgraded using tools from that time, in an example-drive way that complemented the FreeBSD Handbook. He has now an updated version that starts with a FreeBSD 7.1 RELEASE [...]
Continue reading...Living The PC-BSD Lifestyle
28. August 2009
James Nixon has a post about the PC-BSD lifestyle: Sitting next to my 47” Westinghouse LCD TV is the iXsystems Apollo Workstation. This workstation is powered by the 5500 series of the Intel® Xeon® processor, an Asus GeForce 9800 GT video card, and 4 gigs of RAM. It came with PC-BSD Galileo Edition (7.1) pre-installed and [...]
Continue reading...Two Security Alerts for FreeNAS
28. August 2009
The Learn FreeNAS blog reported about two recently found security flaws in FreeNAS, which will only affect those connected to the internet. Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in FreeNAS before 0.69.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unknown vectors. Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WebGUI in FreeNAS before 0.7RC1 allows remote [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 6.1 vulnerability exploit
27. August 2009
The number 1 rule for any sys admin, is to keep systems and servers up-to-date with the latest security patches. (number 2 rule is to create regular back-ups). FreeBSD 6.1 suffers from classical check/use race condition on SMP. The bug was fixed in 6.1-STABLE, just before release of 6.2-RELEASE, but was not recognised as security vulnerability. This code exploits [...]
Continue reading...Update all installed Ports / Applications in FreeBSD
27. August 2009
It is recommended that to keep FreeBSD systems up to date with the latest application security patches installed via ports collection. But, how to upgrade all packages under FreeBSD? FreeBSD comes with various tools to to install and update software packages. The portmaster command line tool is used to install and update software packages. There are [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 8 Getting New Routing Architecture
25. August 2009
There’s an article on internetnews.com by Sean Michael Kerner on the new routing architecture in FreeBSD 8.0: “Though the open source FreeBSD operating system has changed in many aspects over the last 16 years of its life, one item that has remained relatively static is its underlying network routing architecture. No more: It’s getting an overhaul with [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 9 – FreeBSD CURRENT unfrozen
25. August 2009
The FreeBSD team has unfrozen the development branch for -HEAD (eventually leading to a 9.0-RELEASE), meaning 8.0 is around the corner and work on FreeBSD 9 can be started. More about FreeBSD Release Enginering.
Continue reading...m0n0wall 1.3b18 released
25. August 2009
The m0n0wall team release beta 18 last week. The beta page has been updated to make it easier for you to decide what version is most suitable for you/your system: http://m0n0.ch/wall/beta.php
Continue reading...FreeBSD VPS Hosting
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29. August 2009
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