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New PF on FreeBSD snapshot available
Dan writes "Pyun YongHyeon and Max Laier announce a new release of PF for FreeBSD, which is available for download. Since the first release of PF at the end of March 2003, PF has undergone several major updates such as -current and ALTQ support. They have also removed bugs in IPv6, module handling and table support code and believe the current version 0.61 is very close to production use."
No shit. Screw me for not knowing what PF is, but it's just common sense to provide some length of explaination of your subject. I'm scared to click on any of the links for fear that the posted text is just a copy/paste from another source.
Futile, really, to see this complaint come up so many times and realise that the editors really don't give a shit, or at least don't care to offer a rebutle. I realize it's not the most professional approach to post stories relating to how badly they post stories. But I'm guessing their image isn't helped by all of these legitimized complaints. How much longer can they take themselves seriously?
The same can be stated in financial terms. Yes, as "editors" you're all mostly very lame (except that last book review was excellent!), but I do still come here on a semi-daily basis to dig through the threads. However, Moz/Phirebird/foo are set to block images from this server. Our university proxy has even been set to do the same. I'm even starting to get a bad taste in my mouth for people who advertise here.
The biggest trolls here are the editors.
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
Are you sure it's not "pudge facker"?
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
The manpage you quote is documenting a programmer's interface with IOCTLs and c structs. It neither proveides a usefull overview of pf nor does it tell you how to build rules with it.
If you read that and found it better than FreeBSD's concise and well written ipfw(8) manpage you must have smoked some very heavy stuff.