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Justin Sherrill
PC-BSD now has a hardware store, with equipment known to work under PC-BSD. Chances are good that if it works for PC-BSD, it’ll work for other BSDs or could be ported to do so… (via)
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2 days
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Justin Sherrill
New builds of dports have been uploaded and updated, for x86_64 and i386. (x86_64 was already done; I linked the note about i386) This means you can change PACKAGESITE in /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf to point at LATEST instead of RELEASE and get newer packages. ’pkg upgrade’ is all it takes, with dports.
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2 days
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Justin Sherrill
The May issue of BSD Magazine is out with a number of pf articles, plus others.
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Justin Sherrill
Super-compact links week! New Vim 7.4, soon. It’s mostly because the patchlevel is going to exceed 999. 10 Golden Rules for Making the Perfect Cup of Tea. (via I forget) Stop Avoiding Regular Expressions Damn It. Iffy example, but correct sentiment. (via) Ode to a shipping label. (via) The Luck of the Listserv. (via) Introduction [...]
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4 days
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Justin Sherrill
vBSDCon, the newest BSD conference, happening in October and in Virginia, has a new website. (via)
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4 days
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Justin Sherrill
There’s another BSDTalk episode up already, because Will Backman’s at BSDCan 2013 and talking to Scott Long, Alistair Crooks, and David Discher, about NetFlix. Apparently there’s streaming video available now from the convention, and some people’s presentation slides have shown up.
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5 days
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Justin Sherrill
Michael W. Lucas has two bits of mostly-BSD-centric publishing news. One is that a physical version of his DNSSEC Mastery book is now available through Amazon. The other bit is that, having just released an Absolute OpenBSD update, his Absolute FreeBSD book will not see an update… until the FreeBSD installer gets more coherent. (If [...]
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5 days
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Justin Sherrill
BSDTalk 225 has 12 minutes of conversation with Kris Moore about PC-BSD, recorded at BSDCan 2013, which is going on right now.
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7 days
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Justin Sherrill
The tpm(4) driver has been added by Sascha Wildner, ported from FreeBSD. What’s it do? From the man page: “The tpm driver provides support for various trusted platform modules (TPM) that can store cryptographic keys.” Crypto keys stored in hardware, where they are in theory unmangleable, instead of on the disk. At least, that’s my [...]
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8 days
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Justin Sherrill
Sepherosa Ziehau has posted some numbers showing improvements in ip forwarding rates. He’s done this before, except this time it’s with bnx(4), probably because of his recent commits.
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