delphij's Chaos

Microsoft has recently released SFU 3.5 for free download. This is an amazing product because it also enables running Unix programs under Windows natively.

A new MSDN article has said the following:

WinFS is the new storage system in Longhorn. It improves the Microsoft Windows platform in three ways. First, it allows you to categorize your information in multiple ways and relate one item of information to another. Second, it provides a common storage format for information collected on an everyday basis, such as information dealing with people, places, images, and more. Third, it promotes data sharing of common information across multiple applications from multiple vendors.

What I concerned has finally happend. nectar committed a patch to cvs without (in my view) maintainers’ permission.

Theo de Raddt has pointed out that the /dev/crypto testing program in FreeBSD, like in NetBSD, was derived from a test program which he never published with a free license. It has now been deleted from the NetBSD tree as well.

I’ve voted “Strongly agree”. The policy is going to change as described:

Recently there were several important developments taken place in DragonflyBSD.

We saw:

Robert Watson wrote:

Please welcome Colin Percival, our newest src committer. Colin has been using and abusing FreeBSD for several years, but in the past couple has produced “FreeBSD update”, and a host of bugfixes and changes from that work. Colin will be picking up his own PRs to merge, and picking up some others. Let this be a lesson to you all: no good deed goes unpunished. I’ll be his mentor.

Big news! After about four months Jeffrey Hsu has finally merged his fix of RFC3042 to FreeBSD!

I have posted this into the “Security” category because this is a potentially a remote-exploitable security issue. (DoS maxmium).

John has published a new patch:

http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/acpi_sci2.patch

Historically, the only translation performed on I/O requests after they they left the file-system layer were logical sub disk implementation done in the device driver. No universal standard for how sub disks are configured and implemented exists, in fact pretty much every single platform and operating system have done it their own way. As FreeBSD migrates to other platforms it needs to understand these local conventions to be able to co-exist with other operating systems on the same disk.