FreeBSD

Today FreeBSD has upgraded CVS in their source tree, from 1.11.5 to 1.11.15, which addresses numerous security issues.

TERAMOTO Masahiro kindly gave maintainership of security/clamav to Rob Evers, the maintainer of the clamav-devel port.

Today I met a famous FreeBSD developer, David O’Brien (a.k.a. obrien@) and he gave us a presentation about the AMD64 architecture, which cleared my misunderstanding about the AMD64 architecture set by some marketing guys presenting in Tsinghua University.

See the original letter here.

It’s so common to provide information feeds through RSS feed and today Ceri has committed FreeBSD’s RSS transform.

Bruce M Simpson has added Daniel Hartmeier to the active committers’ rank. Daniel is from the OpenBSD campaus and is one of the authors of OpenBSD’s stateful firewall, pf(4).

This is my 201st blob, the 200th was used with a law disclaimer, well I don’t like legalize while I have a handful of friends who works on law-related jobs :-)

Yesterday I have talked with Max Laier about the pf accessories, say, the spamd. He explained me why it is kept in ports/ and not the base system - this is to keep the base system small, and I completely agree this.

I’m still working on deploying the new beastie.frontfree.net (builder.frontfree.net at present). Because a bug(?) in FreeBSD kernel I have temporary disabled HTT on the box.

As planned before, I am now downloading DragonFlyBSD’s live iso and tend to install it soon.