DragonFly BSD Digest:
I like linkblogging, especially because there’s been a lot of good stuff floating about:Matthew Dillon detailed some of the problems he had using hardlinks to create backups – problems Hammer solves.The History of the Internet in a Nutshell: pretty good, though it says Unix “influenced” Linux and FreeBSD. Influenced is rig (Read More)
hubertf's NetBSD blog:
Today, TeX Live 2009 was released. After teTeX is no longer maintained,TeX Live is *the* Unix (and other) TeX distribution.And with the binary release come binaries for NetBSD:``Executables for the cygwin and i386-netbsd platforms are now included, while the other BSD distributions have been dropped; we were advised that Op (Read More)
DragonFly BSD Digest:
Where I get more linkbloggy than usual:According to the 5th slide in this presentation, Android’s libc, “Bionic”, is BSD-derived. Anyone know which BSD? It looks like “whatever” is the answer.There’s a video out about BSD Certification.Hubert Feyrer has a note about NetBSD’s not-necessarily-intended moves towards a microk (Read More)
hubertf's NetBSD blog:
A few weeks agoI made a comment about NetBSD not being a "microkernel" despiteit's move to kernel modules. Antti Kantee wrote back to me (Hi Antti!)reminding me of his work on RUMP, PUFFS and the like, which I thinkdoes definitely deserve mentioning in that context:With RUMP, PUFFS and the like, Antti is set on a mission to (Read More)
OpenBSD on SWiK:
Will Backman of BSDTalk fame has released yet another in his series of much appreciated BSD interviews.This time a developer who recently joined OpenBSD to hack on OpenSMTPD is the interviewee.The chat is about OpenSMTPd (naturally) and also about the data deduplication software EpitomeFile Info:14Min, 7MB: mp3 or ogg (Read More)
DragonFly BSD Digest:
If you use any sort of BSD product at work, the BSD Certification group wants you to take a survey. They are building a cross section of what people are doing with BSD, and this will show what requirements should go with the certifications. Any BSD use applies, not just DragonFly. The more results, the better the tests, (Read More)
hubertf's NetBSD blog:
g4u ("ghosting for unix") version 2.4 has been released. g4u is aNetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks todeploy a common set up on a number of PCs using FTP. The floppy/CD offerstwo functions. The first is to upload the compressed image of a localharddisk to a FTP server, the other is to re (Read More)
OpenBSD on SWiK:
Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 4.6. The release arrives earlier than expected; as many of the project's paying customers have already received their CDs, the 4.6 tree of the OpenBSD FTP server has been opened to allow full access to any extra packages. From....
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hubertf's NetBSD blog:
... to also install new kernel modules if you run NetBSD-current,
else your system will not boot any more:
How? Either unpack modules.tgz set so you get modules matching your
kernel in /stand, or run "make install USETOOLS=no DESTDIR=/"
in src/sys/modules. (Read More)
hubertf's NetBSD blog:
Here are two news items from the past few days: Web-based firewall log reporting and analysis tool Webfwlog 0.94 released: ``Webfwlog is a flexible web-based firewall log analyzer and reporting tool. It supports standard system logs for linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Irix, OS X, etc. as well as Windows XP. Suppo (Read More)
DragonFly BSD Digest:
Two items, picked from RSS feeds:
People get really excited when software on Windows or a Mac manages to automatically install software. BSD systems have been doing this for years.
What’s the first license mentioned when Palm opens up free access to open source software? BSD.
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DragonFly BSD Digest:
Seen via Richard Bejtlich’s excellent Taosecurity blog: the 6th issue of BSD Magazine is out.
Don’t forget, the first 3 issues (scroll down on that link) are free to download in PDF format. (Read More)
DragonFly BSD Digest:
Yay, another BSDTalk! Will Backman talks about where he’s been for the past month in BSDTalk number 177, and plays back a talk with FreeBSD developer Giorgos Keramidas. (Read More)