vBSDcon 2015 Recap

Wow – Verisign gets HUGE props from RootBSD for vBSDcon 2015 Marketers: want a clinic in how to roll out the red carpet and run a technical event like a Rolex? Go to the next one. BSD hackers: if you missed it, you missed a 5-star event – but don’t worry...

FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE Available

The FreeBSD Foundation recently released version 10.2-RELEASE for download which improves upon the stability of FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE and introduces an array of new features. A few highlights of this new release include: * The resolvconf(8) utility has been updated to...

Bash security vulnerabilities

update – September 25 4:00PM EDT (20:00 UTC):  Apparently the extent of the flaw in bash was not contained in just the original security report CVE-2014-6271 and initial update.  There is a similar security concern documented in CVE-2014-7169 which Red Hat says...

FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE now available

The FreeBSD Foundation has just recently released version 8.4-RELEASE which featured an array of security advisories, kernel changes, hardware support fixes and updates to contributed software. The entire release notes are available at the FreeBSD Foundation website....

FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE now available

The FreeBSD Project officially announced the availability of FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. New features include the following: New Intel GPU driver with GEM/KMS support netmap(4) fast userspace packet I/O framework ZFS improvements from illumos project CAM Target Layer, a disk...