FreeBSD

FreeBSD Apache2 port has been RCng’ifyed since 2.0.49_2. This will unify the behavior of ports more.

It appears that NetBSD has finally adopted packet filter, an OpenBSD feature to its base. Compared to FreeBSD’s pf port, this will be much easier one because the VM structure is almostly alike.

It seems that Bruce A. Mah is willing to take a break…

I am not sure whether there’s someone who wants to pick up mono’s FreeBSD port. I personally do not want to do this :-) However it will be interesting if I have enough time to kill. And, of course, it will be good if it is released under a more loose license…

This is an experimental release which tend to exhibit the latest -CURRENT technologies, maintaining stablity and incorporating my improvements which has not been integrated into FreeBSD’s central repository.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD’s inetd are based on a same codebase. However, they have different features and OpenBSD have some features that FreeBSD is lacking at present. For example, per-interface binding, etc.

It seems that they are now replacing explicit XFree86-4-libraries to USE_XLIB and so. Is this a step dropping XFree86 and go XOrg? :-)

I don’t like lawyer much, however, we all have to respect law :-) Apple has released some of their code under a license called “APSL”, what’s that? To quote Robert Watson, a FreeBSD core team member, APSL was considered as something like GPL/LGPL, which is acceptable for standard-alone userspace tools, however, should be taken carefully on kernel aspect.

It seems that FreeBSD community has reviewed and committed one of my bigger patch on sbin/syslogd, which was primarily obtained from OpenBSD. These changes are more or less “sync with OpenBSD”, which will increase security performance of FreeBSD.

自从01年dillon commit之后一直就用着MAXUSERS 0。今天alu提到说MAXUSERS不合适的时候有可能会造成系统负荷能力下降，于是看了代码，发现MAXUSERS是根据内存大小算出来的，32-512之间。另外，实践证明MAXUSERS看来不能设置为2048(起不来)……