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  1. Re:Why is everyone overreacting? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Interwoven Patents Code Versioning

    Sounds a hell of a lot like CVS + Apache + CVSWeb.

  2. Re:Encrypted File System by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Storage Security

    FreeBSD has a new system in the 5.x series. It's called GBDE (Geom Based Disk Encryption).

    Basically you ``open'' a partition that's encrypted and you can do any operation you want and only ciphertext will hit the disk. You can then ``close'' the partition and no one should be able to read it.

    You can have upto four different pass-phrases so four different people can access the data independently. Each of the four people can also self-destruct access to the data in case of ``attack'' (``blackening'').

    The man(1) page list above has a good description.

  3. Re:NETCRAFT NOW CONFIRMS: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on MicroBSD Is No More

    Hey Troll...you left something here.

  4. Well, I'll be... by maynard · · Score: 1 · on Open Code Has Fewer Bugs

    Yup, you're right. Thanks! Looks like Drew Gallatin and Ken Merry have put together a zero copy solution along with a Tiger TG3 Gb driver for FreeBSD. They have an interesting FAQ on the project and development status here. Most cool...

    --Maynard

  5. Hopefully by rsax · · Score: 1 · on OpenDarwin.org Releases Darwin With Fixes
    Hopefully I can use my old PC box as a server with this...

    Or hopefully you could use your old PC box as a server with any of these relatively new operating systems as well: FreeBSD, NetBSD, Debian =P

  6. Re:4.8? by Strog · · Score: 1 · on Firewire Updates For Scheduled FreeBSD 4.8 Release

    Yes 5.0 was released a month ago. 4.8 will have things back-ported to it and bug fixes. Many people consider a .0 release too much risk for production environments. FreeBSD releases are very well supported for a good period of time.

    Look at the releases page. You will notice that 3.5 was released 3 months after 4.0.

  7. Use PC as a server? by YetAnotherName · · Score: 5, Funny · on OpenDarwin.org Releases Darwin With Fixes

    Hopefully I can use my old PC box as a server with this

    And if that doesn't work, you might want to take a look at FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, amongst others. I understand they're fairly popular.

  8. FreeBSD *IS* in trouble (Was: Re:sp?) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Intel, Red Hat Agree To BSD License For Intel Patches

    Really?

    How about this, this, this , and this ????

    Turbo Glass

  9. FreeBSD *IS* in trouble (Was: Re:sp?) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Intel, Red Hat Agree To BSD License For Intel Patches

    Really?

    How about this, this, this , and this ????

    Turbo Glass

  10. FreeBSD *IS* in trouble (Was: Re:sp?) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Intel, Red Hat Agree To BSD License For Intel Patches

    Really?

    How about this, this, this , and this ????

    Turbo Glass

  11. FreeBSD *IS* in trouble (Was: Re:sp?) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Intel, Red Hat Agree To BSD License For Intel Patches

    Really?

    How about this, this, this , and this ????

    Turbo Glass

  12. Hi, Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on Review of PCV-W10 Desktop by Sony

    I can't see any fucking comments you champs. I suggest you upgrade your Slash or recompile your kernel or reboot your rackmounts or something.

  13. Finding Exploits by mindhaze · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Kevin Mitnick Answers

    Hey Kevin,

    While what you've done in the past is illegal, there are now many free software projects that give you ample ability to read source code and find exploits. Consider the Free BSD project, who's volunteers spend the bulk of their time reading source code to find exploits.

    I suspect that your talents would be appreciated with projects like these, and you'd maintain yourself as an upstanding citizen. Or for that matter, netizen, as the case may becoming.

  14. Re:frob.us by Leto2 · · Score: 1 · on Shell Simulation Via CGI
    I think you mentioned a link to your _webserver_ in your previous post. You didn't mention where your _shellserver_ was hosted. Of course I didn't just assume that you would run your shellserver and webserver from the same IP. Maybe the same physical box, sure, but in that case I'm sure you seperated the process and IP spaces correctly.

    P.S. You should fix all those spelling and grammar errors on your website, it looks rather immature with those.

  15. Re:FUD by benedict · · Score: 1 · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out

    People who are not members of the core team certainly
    can commit. There are many, many more committers
    than there are core team members.

    See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/article s/contributors/,
    sections 2 and 3.

  16. Re:FreeBSD != Linux by j-pimp · · Score: 3, Informative · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out
    FreeBSD is a failure.

    So lets look at some facts:
    • Yahoo is powered by freebsd
    • Hotmail was (is still?) poewered by FreeBSD
    • My laptop is powered by FreeBSD
    • KDE works great and GNOME ain't to shabby
    • My laptop is powered by FreeBSD. I switched from OpenBSD because KDE3 wouldn't compile.
    • Sun and FreeBSD have come to some kind of agreement so FreeBSD will be distributed with java once sun and java figure out what the agreement is that there lawyers made. Until then all you have to do is download two tarballs, stick them in the righ place and install like any other port.
    No its not cool. No its not the place to be for games or embedded systems with GUIs. However, it's great for web/database type things and other places you need scalibility because alot more kernel parameters can be set on the fly than in linux. Also it does have its share of wizbang. Background fsck! Yeah thats boys and girls. System boots up after power failure or kernel panic, fack the / partition, which of course is small and does not contain /usr, /var or /tmp becasue your a competent sysadmin from all those years of slashdot reading. It mounts the other partitions dirty and does fsck while the system is up and running. No its not perfect, no I wouldn't do it on a server yet, but its available in 5.0 and by the time 5.2 comes out (the ok 5.x is ready to take on your super mission critical 5 9's project release) It will be, and its easy to turn off. However, it only failed me once and no data was lost. The point however is there is some innovation going on in FreeBSD land and sure its playing catchup with linux in certain aspects but every damn OS is playing catchup with every other fucking OS out there in some regard. Can you find me one super fast, super GUI, super CLI, Everyones using it OS?

  17. Re:dillon leaves the FreeBSD project by dagooncrn · · Score: 2, Informative · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out
    Yup, he didn't get to core team in 2002 election
    ==vv New Core vv==
    rwatson (171)
    imp (157)
    peter (151)
    murray (128)
    markm (119)
    jhb (99)
    grog (88)
    wes (85)
    kuriyama (83)
    ==^^ New Core ^^==

    brian (79)
    matusita (72)
    dillon (64)
  18. Re:dillon leaves the FreeBSD project by brass1 · · Score: 4, Insightful · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out
    Matt has very little influence on the future of the FreeBSD kernel. That work which he has done over the last two years or so was mainly maintenance.

    I'm sure this will get modded down, but that's a pretty gutless statement to make, and really isn't supported by the commit logs. Though, when it's time for Core to toss someone under the bus...

    To be sure, there is plenty of history with Matt, much of it not great. He's simply not a team developer. However, I honesty hope there's more to this and this than there appears to be.

    One wonders when Core is going to stop acting parents and start acting like leaders.

  19. Re:dillon leaves the FreeBSD project by brass1 · · Score: 4, Insightful · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out
    Matt has very little influence on the future of the FreeBSD kernel. That work which he has done over the last two years or so was mainly maintenance.

    I'm sure this will get modded down, but that's a pretty gutless statement to make, and really isn't supported by the commit logs. Though, when it's time for Core to toss someone under the bus...

    To be sure, there is plenty of history with Matt, much of it not great. He's simply not a team developer. However, I honesty hope there's more to this and this than there appears to be.

    One wonders when Core is going to stop acting parents and start acting like leaders.

  20. The flamewar is here: by otuz · · Score: 5, Informative · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out

    It seems to have started when Dillon made a clever hack and people got arguing over API problems:

    The problem
    The solution
    NOT another solution ...

    The flamewar starts.. ...

    and continues.

  21. The flamewar is here: by otuz · · Score: 5, Informative · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out

    It seems to have started when Dillon made a clever hack and people got arguing over API problems:

    The problem
    The solution
    NOT another solution ...

    The flamewar starts.. ...

    and continues.

  22. The flamewar is here: by otuz · · Score: 5, Informative · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out

    It seems to have started when Dillon made a clever hack and people got arguing over API problems:

    The problem
    The solution
    NOT another solution ...

    The flamewar starts.. ...

    and continues.

  23. The flamewar is here: by otuz · · Score: 5, Informative · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out

    It seems to have started when Dillon made a clever hack and people got arguing over API problems:

    The problem
    The solution
    NOT another solution ...

    The flamewar starts.. ...

    and continues.

  24. The flamewar is here: by otuz · · Score: 5, Informative · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out

    It seems to have started when Dillon made a clever hack and people got arguing over API problems:

    The problem
    The solution
    NOT another solution ...

    The flamewar starts.. ...

    and continues.

  25. Re:FUD by BattleBlow · · Score: 1 · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out
    Actually, I define FUD in the traditional meaning of "fear, uncertainty, doubt". You'll note that the original article included, amongst similar content, the question "Would someone from the FreeBSD team care to elaborate and assuage our worries?". The stated "worries" is presumably because the poster is now in a state of fear, uncertainty or doubt about the future of FreeBSD. Spreading this, without any basis, is normally referred to as "FUD". See the repeated "Matt Dillon has left, FreeBSD is dying" posts for an example.

    Also, please read the "secret" rules before commenting on them. The "elite" cabal is also publically documented.

  26. Re:FUD by BattleBlow · · Score: 1 · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out
    Actually, I define FUD in the traditional meaning of "fear, uncertainty, doubt". You'll note that the original article included, amongst similar content, the question "Would someone from the FreeBSD team care to elaborate and assuage our worries?". The stated "worries" is presumably because the poster is now in a state of fear, uncertainty or doubt about the future of FreeBSD. Spreading this, without any basis, is normally referred to as "FUD". See the repeated "Matt Dillon has left, FreeBSD is dying" posts for an example.

    Also, please read the "secret" rules before commenting on them. The "elite" cabal is also publically documented.

  27. dillon leaves the FreeBSD project by groggy-P · · Score: 5, Informative · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out
    The information you have is from the open FreeBSD-chat mailing list. The thread was started by people in the project who are not on the closed developers@FreeBSD-org mailing list, and some of the statements are wide of the mark:
    • Matt Dillon was never a "core developer". The FreeBSD project doesn't use that term, but it looks like a reference to the core team. Matt has never been a member of the core team.
    • Matt has done some very good work over the years. His contribution to FreeBSD release 4 was invaluable, but it would be wrong to suggest that he single-handedly made the difference. Commit statistics on the orginal list show that he has not been very active over the last 12 months.
    • I was not aware of his involvement with Linux VM. Nothing we have done will change this, though.
    • The FreeBSD core team has informed the development community in detail about the reasons for Matt's removal. We don't think it's appropriate, nor fair to Matt, to wash dirty linen in public.
    • Matt has very little influence on the future of the FreeBSD kernel. That work which he has done over the last two years or so was mainly maintenance.
    It's always sad to have to make these decisions. It's even more difficult to defend them when our hands are tied behind our backs.
  28. Free BSD (not) Dying by TPS+Report · · Score: 5, Insightful · on FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out
    For Gods sake, why would someone choose BSD over linux????
    First, let me congratulate you for your enthusiastic use of the ? key. Second, if you'd actually used FreeBSD/OpenBSD in any real capacity, you'd realize that the structure and design of BSD makes it attractive for many people who try it.

    First, remember that there is no magic bullet. There are always tradeoffs with anything. Linux has definate strong points (new hardware support usually hits linux first; there are more developers for linux). FreeBSD has fewer developers, and doesn't support the newest hardware as quickly - but the (FreeBSD) network stack is extremely solid, and the system design is very clean.

    So, you have to evaluate your goals in these kinds of situations. Are you out to get the newest hardware and features, or are you looking for a clean design and good performance.

    There is a reason many sites (like Yahoo, imdb, cr.yp.to) use Open/FreeBSD to run their servers.
    If that's not one of your priorities, but you're still curious: I'd still take a look at FreeBSD; the overall design is quite pleasant to work with.

    Also, many of the exploits produced are usually done on Linux, at least initially. This could buy you a little extra lead-time when something malicious is released. It's not security by obscurity, but it is a fringe benefit.

    As always, if you're truly curious as to which OS would suit you best, you should put a little effort into it, and do some research yourself. I'm not saying you shouldn't use Linux, and I'm not saying you should use FreeBSD. FreeBSD is not for everyone. Linux is not for everyone. Do the research, decide for yourself, and next time - when you feel the urge to ask "why use *BSD?" -- you'll be able to at least discuss what you do or don't like about either. Otherwise, you end up contributing nothing to the discussion.
  29. Broken link. by frost22 · · Score: 1 · on 1.6 Million IP Connections on FreeBSD

    The given link for Terry's message seems to be broken.

    Take this one

  30. Re:What about BSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Battle in 64-bit Land, 2003 and Beyond

    The latest release of FreeBSD comes in a IA-64 flavor.

  31. Re:Government Funding of Security/Virus Prevention by damiam · · Score: 5, Informative · on When Will The Next Slammer Strike?
    I think we ought to make virus-protection code public

    It is.

    who can't afford 50 bucks on a virus scanner or decent firewall software

    Then don't pay 50 bucks.

    I saw Nimda infections up until the end of last year

    Norton and McAfee both provided free available Nimda removal tools. Besides, if you can afford IIS, you can afford a virus scanner.

  32. Re:The easy solution by Pathwalker · · Score: 1 · on Quickly Filling Up 150GB of Legal Media Files?

    Holes in files are space that has not been allocated.

    Most UNIX filesystems support gaps of unallocated space in a file. They can be handy for dumping out memory used by a process, where there might be a couple of megs at data spread over a gigabyte of address space.

    The data is at the correct offset in the file, and it only takes up as much space as is actually used.

    To create one under FreeBSD, look at the truncate command.
    as an example, this command creates a 5 gig file that does not actually take up any disk space beyond one inode:
    truncate -s +5G foo

  33. Can someone please explain... by majestynine · · Score: 0 · on SDF Punted, Due to DDOS
    Can someone please explain why this was put under the topic of "BSD", and why such a thing was even mentioned in the "article" by Hemos?

    A DDOS attack is an attack on bandwidth, not an attack on an operating system.

    If I was more cynical...wait I am more cynical: I think its just because either Hemos doesn't understand the difference, or more likely, just wants to jump at a chance to badmouth that other operating system that he knows is so much of a threat to their treasured linux.

    Personally I don't think this story comes under the heading of "News that matters", and even if it was worthy, it should have been put under the 'Security' heading, not "BSD".

    Perhaps we can get a new section for Denial of Services, or perhaps, a wider umbrella would be a 'teenage HaX0r' section where we can put DDOSs, Web Defacements and Case Mods all together. (That way, people who have lives can choose the option not to display any of that shit on the front page)

    Thanks, majestynine.

  34. Re:Drive Failure by geniusj · · Score: 1 · on The Always-Encrypted Firewire Hard Drive

    or in 5.0, gbde (GEOM Based Disk Encryption)

  35. Here's a match by DrSkwid · · Score: 1 · on MPlayer Licence Trouble With A Twist

    The stability of Debian and the ease of apt-get just can't be matched.

    Oh yes it can!

    8)

  36. normal url by meshko · · Score: 4, Informative · on Nov-Dec 2002 FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Status Report

    Here is the url of the report in a readable form.

  37. Re:vs. MySQL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on .org TLD Now Runs on PostgreSQL
    Of course, if your server is only functioning as a database server, it doesn't really matter what OS you run on it, now does it? You could always try a faster, more stable server operating system to store your databases on. As many have said before, best tool for the job. This means being willing to be OS agnostic and simply use whatever platform works the best for the task at hand -- especially if users never actually have to see it directly.

    Say it with me: heterogeneity.

    I knew you could. :-)

  38. Murphy's Law by swordboy · · Score: 2, Funny · on Remote Root Exploit in CVS

    This kind of thing always seems to happen after I burn a new release of something.

    Sigh...

  39. Re:Oh, hooray by schulte · · Score: 2, Informative · on FreeBSD 5.0 Available

    The master server is actually called ftp-master.freebsd.org, which is only accessible by the official mirror sites. You can read about the FreeBSD distribution system at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/article s/releng/distribution.html.

  40. Re:bah by __past__ · · Score: 1 · on FreeBSD 5.0 Available

    Um, CVSup? There's absolutely no need to download new ISOs again.

  41. Re:Oh yeah ! by shlong · · Score: 2, Informative · on FreeBSD 5.0 Available

    This question has already been addressed in the Early Adopter's Guide, which was referenced in the official release announcement.

  42. Re:You don't need the 4 ISOs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on FreeBSD 5.0 Available

    Remember that a 4.x-5.x transition will not be easy.

    Actually it will be very easy with FreeBSD. What you do is update the source, go into /usr/src, do a 'make buildworld; make buildkernel; make installkernel; make installworld' and you're done.

    Seriously, that's it. I've done it and it works nicely. Unlike most Linux distributions (exception: Debian), the FreeBSD developers actually have a plan for going from release to release -- and all the software compiled for the old version will work just fine through a compatibility layer. (More verbose instructions can be found in the FreeBSD Handbook.

  43. Re:You don't need the 4 ISOs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on FreeBSD 5.0 Available

    Remember that a 4.x-5.x transition will not be easy.

    Actually it will be very easy with FreeBSD. What you do is update the source, go into /usr/src, do a 'make buildworld; make buildkernel; make installkernel; make installworld' and you're done.

    Seriously, that's it. I've done it and it works nicely. Unlike most Linux distributions (exception: Debian), the FreeBSD developers actually have a plan for going from release to release -- and all the software compiled for the old version will work just fine through a compatibility layer. (More verbose instructions can be found in the FreeBSD Handbook.

  44. Re:Hasnt this happened before by shlong · · Score: 2, Informative · on FreeBSD 5.0 Available

    The FreeBSD project learned it's lesson on this long ago. ftp.freebsd.org is now just a tier-1 mirror, just like any other tier-1 mirror. However, the master site is not publically available.

    Also, if you guys want the REAL release announcement, go here

  45. Christians adopting Linux by jmichaelg · · Score: 4, Funny · on Maine School & Linux
    Hm... speaking of shibboleths, I wonder how many posts it will take before someone seriously handwrings about it being a "Christian" academy adopting Linux... ;-)

    Imagine how the school's board would have reacted if the instructor had chosen FreeBSD instead.

  46. Early Adopter's Guide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on FreeBSD 5.0 Available

    And if you want to read some thoughts on whether you should upgrade, then click to view the early adopter's guide.

    http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter .html

    Summary:

    "While FreeBSD 5.0 contains a number of new and exciting features, it may not be suitable for all users at this time. In this document, we presented some background on release engineering, some of the more notable new features of the 5.X series, and some drawbacks to early adoption. We also presented some future plans for the 4-STABLE development branch and some tips on upgrading for early adopters."

  47. Re:FreeBSD 5.0 NOT released by Simon+(S2) · · Score: 2, Interesting · on FreeBSD 5.0 Available

    from the freeBSD Mail archives about the 4.5 announcement:

    On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:43:19PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
    > Not only am I quoted as somehow having announced it (EH?), but
    > slashdot has just announced the availability of FreeBSD 4.5. I've
    > already posted a correction as part of the ensuing thread, but just a
    > heads-up in case you guys start getting questions about it. From
    > everything I can see, somebody recycled my 4.4 announcement or
    > something and the slashdot editors didn't even bother to verify it.

    And this wonderful newsflash is brought to us only a few weeks after the FIRST "Official" CD release of FreeBSD was pre-announced[1]. I immediately followed that up with a story about the 47th "Official" CD release of FreeBSD to be released on January 26, but they never posted it. The editing at Slashdot has been a joke recently. It is very clear that the posters don't even follow the links in the submissions. I will send some pointers to the editors to make sure this never happens again, as I'm sure many readers have already done.
    - Murray

    i think he is gonna get very angry this time also :))

  48. FreeBSD Mirror sitres by bihoy · · Score: 2, Interesting · on FreeBSD 5.0 Available

    When FreeBSD 5.0 is officially released you should be able to get it from one of the FTP sites in the official list.

    FTP Sites

  49. just in case... by pummer · · Score: 0, Redundant · on FreeBSD 5.0 Available

    ... the main ftp server gets Slashdotted, here are some mirrors.

  50. Release Notes by Squeezer · · Score: 5, Informative · on FreeBSD 5.0 Available

    If you want to see what is new in FreeBSD 5.0 then click to view the release notes.

    http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/relnotes.html