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FreeBSD Foundation’s Year-End Fundraising Campaign!

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced their end of year fundraising campaign.

So far, the Foundation has raised $256,532 of their $500,000 goal for 2012. Raised funds are used to sponsor projects which add features to the operating system, fund developers to attend DevSummits and conferences, and keep the FreeBSD hardware and web infrastructure going.

If you appreciate the work FreeBSD developers and the FreeBSD Foundation are doing, why not consider making a donation?

FreeBSD Foundation End of Year fundraising campaign. (via)

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AWS re:Invent interview with FreeBSD Developer Colin Percival (video)

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Gerard

Colin Percival who made FreeBSD to work on Amazon’s EC2 (via) was interviewed during Amazon AWS re:Invent.

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FreeBSD Raspberry Pi Project update

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Gerard

Long overdue update on how the things are going with FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi.

http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=185

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FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE almost ready

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Gerard

It seems that FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE is not far away now?

https://plus.google.com/u/0/105669055705467236336/posts/SMcf4PGWCKf

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Countdown to importing BHyVe into FreeBSD

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Gerard

The BHyVe “BSD HyperVisor” developers Neel Natu and Peter Grehan have been hard at work preparing the project for merger into the main FreeBSD 10-CURRENT source tree and the result is a remarkably-usable system. These instructions will show you how to test a development snapshot based on FreeBSD 10.

Check out the CFT page for the instructions.

If you’re interested in finding out more about BHyve, visit the following pages: BHyVe Wiki | PDF presentation

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AWS Marketplace page for FreeBSD

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Gerard

The AWS Marketplace, which is mostly used by software companies to sell their commercial appliances and software for use in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), is now also listing some free and open source operating systems.

FreeBSD 9.0 is one of them: FreeBSD (64-bit “cluster compute”), added by Colin Percival.

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FreeBSD Security Advisory (Bind)

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Gerard

The FreeBSD Security Team has identified an issue in Bind and has issued the following security advisory: FreeBSD-SA-12:06.bind (22/11/2012).

I. Background

BIND 9 is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. The named(8) daemon is an Internet Domain Name Server.

II. Problem Description

The BIND daemon would crash when a query is made on a resource record with RDATA that exceeds 65535 bytes. The BIND daemon would lock up when a query is made on specific combinations of RDATA.

III. Impact

A remote attacker can query a resolving name server to retrieve a record whose RDATA is known to be larger than 65535 bytes, thereby causing the resolving server to crash via an assertion failure in named.

For a workaround and solution, check out the security advisory: FreeBSD-SA-12:06.bind

An attacker who is in a position to add a record with RDATA larger than 65535 bytes to an authoritative name server can cause that server to crash by later querying for that record.

The attacker can also cause the server to lock up with specific combinations of RDATA.

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GhostBSD 3.0 RC3 available for testing

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Gerard

Eric Turgeon has announced the availability of the third release candidate for GhostBSD 3.0. GhostBSD is a FreeBSD derivative that aims to make FreeBSD easier and bring GNOME to BSD users, although LXDE and OpenBox are also available. The third and last release candidate for upcoming 3.0 was recently released for final testing.

The third release candidate of GhostBSD 3.0 is now supporting Gnome 2, LXDE and Openbox Desktop and it is now available for testing. This is the last development release. While this is a release candidate, it might contain some bugs and other problems, which have not been discovered during beta tests so we still only encourage you to run it only on non-critical systems. Openbox is now part of GhostBSD development.

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