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FreeBSD Kernel Leak
Pine Digital Security announced a FreeBSD kernel leak, found when auditing a customer. The leak can be exploited to panic the server or elevate privileges. FreeBSD swiftly updated CVS, a security advisory will probably follow. Both the -RELEASE branch and -CURRENT branch are vulnerable.
Ah 100% security doesn't exist
Remind me to stay of EFNet tonight....
bsd is dead even with apples expensive junk why not just run linux wehre all the good progs are running even M$windoze gamez and stuff some people just want to be different and cool and make there live ahrder then it should be!!!!!
It looks like there's plenty of security flaws in the OSS world too.
there ya go, fuckhead.
Is this the reason that Rackspace would not let me use FreeBSD on their network 6 months ago? They said that if I use FreeBSD then I will be hacked. Then they pushed RedHad Linux on me.
To this day, I do not know why they said FreeBSD is insecure at the Kernel.
The above is not worth reading.
Kernel's leak YOU!!!
This is absolute proof that FreeBSD is dying. LOL LOL I USE AOL! My god! Why am I trolling of slashdot? My life is so pathetic that the only joy I get is taunting others about an obscure OS on an obscure website. Actually it isn't even my joy, I'm just guessing that is what a trollers joy is. I was just was disapointed when I didn't see any *BSD is dying posts on this thread so I made this.
Note: The opinions expressed within do not represent AOL Time Warner or OSDN. They are the opinions of Cowboy Neal.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying