Kernel
FreeBSD TCP Protocol Vulnerablity patched
Mike Silberack has posted a patch related to illegal TCP RST attacks.
阅读全文…FreeBSD 4.10-RC released
Now we have RELENG_4_10 branch :-) There are a lot of -CURRENT improvements has been MFC’ed, however, the most important part of -CURRENT, say, KSE and SMPng, will never be MFC’ed because of the architecture change introduced by this.
阅读全文…Resuming for P4 HTT issue
I’m going on to track down the Pentium 4 HTT issue of FreeBSD. Currently I have setup a tinderbox (hengdm’s workstation because he is not here :-P and it’s the only box which supports HTT) and compiled a SMP kernel on it.
阅读全文…Recently committed changes is causing locking problem on FreeBSD
The SMP case seems to have something wrong with it. My MARCH=p4 and -O optimized kernel often crashes when shutting down on beastieng.frontfree.net. Apparantly this is lock related (we can see the panic strings there not to be outputing atomically, and they just mixed with each other).
阅读全文…Alan Cox's recent improvements to FreeBSD VM subsystem
Dr. Alan Cox (alc@) has committed several improvements to FreeBSD’s VM implementation, and this brought significant performance gains on 5-CURRENT.
阅读全文…Some comments on FreeBSD 5.2 usage
I personally manages several FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT instances, and here are my experiences.
FreeBSD 5.x contained many new features, technologies. Currently, it’s clear that 5.2-CURRENT is more stable and have a better performance than 5.2(.1)-RELEASE. Therefore, if you are looking to install a new (of course, and ONLY if you choose 5.x series!) computer, the best solution would be 5-CURRENT.
阅读全文…NetBSD to begin 2.0-RELEASE engineering process
Today, NetBSD has announced their start of 2.0-RELEASE works. NetBSD is an excellent operating system that supports many platforms, if not most.
阅读全文…FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE to have -p4
This is the 6th security advisory of FreeBSD for the year 2004. The problem is with FreeBSD’s IPv6 implementation, which in turn does not affect our systems at all, because all servers I maintain has disabled IPv6 completely, since there’s no IPv6 devices available at Beijing University of Technology’s public network.
阅读全文…NetBSD to have postfix in their base system?!
Sorry for my ignorance, but it seems that NetBSD has imported postfix to their source tree for at least a year!
阅读全文…FreeBSD: Better i18n through utf-8!
Tim J Robbins (tjr@) has committed a set of utf8-ized versions of currently supported system locales. From the commit log:
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