*BSD news from the past

Zoals valt te zien zijn er nog steeds enkele bugs over‚ en moeten sommige zaken nog grondig getest worden. Als er iemand het FreeBSD-team nog van dienst kan zijn hieromtrent‚ zal men dat zeer waarderen !

De aanpak van deze release verschilt wezenlijk van de aanpak van vorige releases waar lastige bugs de release nog verhinderden. Men heeft daar namelijk lering uit getrokken‚ aangezien die bewuste releases als onbevredigend werden ervaren door het FreeBSD team.

[url=http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/5-roadmap/]Hier[/url] valt de roadmap van FreeBSD 5 te vinden‚ alsmede enkele interessante features die men nog wil implementeren.

Een artikel waarom *BSD niet zo populair is als Linux.
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Technically, the BSD operating systems are every bit as good as Linux, so why aren’t they commercially sucessful? eWEEK.com Linux & Open Source Center Editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols and software consultant Brian Masinick explain why. [/quote]
[url]http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3048,a=110983,00.asp[/url]

Na FreeBSD is het de beurt aan OpenBSD met de release van een nieuwe versie. Deze krijgt nummertje 3.4 mee.
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The OpenBSD team is pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.4. This is their 14th release on CD-ROM (and 15th via FTP). They remain proud of OpenBSD’s record of seven years with only a single remote hole in the default install. As in their previous releases, OpenBSD 3.4 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system including W^X (pronounced: “W xor X”) improvements, static bounds checker, privilege separation implementation for syslog daemon, and much more. You can download OpenBSD 3.4 from one of your preferred sites. [/quote]

[url]http://www.openbsd.org/34.html[/url]

Er is weer een gloednieuwe release van FreeBSD. Deze heeft versie nummer 4.9 mee gekregen. [quote] I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE in April 2003, we have made conservative updates to a number of software programs in the base system, dealt with known security issues, and merged support for large memory i386 machines with Page Address Extensions (PAE) from 5.1.[/quote] [url=http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.9R/relnotes.html]Relnotes[/url] [url=http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.9R/errata.html]Errata[/url] [quote] This release does not include all of the new technologies that were introduced with FreeBSD 5.1 in June. Most developer resources are focused on improving the FreeBSD 5.X branch, and this may very well be the last major release of FreeBSD 4.X. The security officer team will continue to actively support the 4.X branch according to the normal policy. Additional 4.9.X releases may be made available when necessitated by security vulnerabilities or high-impact bugfixes. We encourage all our users to evaluate FreeBSD 5.1 and the upcoming 5.2. Because PAE support has only been a feature in 4.X for a few months, it has not received wide-spread testing, and our most conservative users may wish to stay with FreeBSD 4.8 until they choose to migrate to 5.X. For more information about the distinctions between FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X, or for general information about the FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see : http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ [/quote]

De eerste versie van PF met ALTQ is beschikbaar voor FreeBSD. Hiermee komen de mooie PF futures beschikbaar voor FreeBSD
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The first official release of PF ALTQ merge is now available. It’s based on the most recent version of OpenBSD’s PF ported by Max and Pyun. The ALTQ part in this package is based on the most recent version from kame. They disabled ALTQ3_COMPAT, and introduced finegrained locking. JoBS, other schedulers and compatparts are still in this tree for two reasons. First it’s much easier to sync with kame. Second they will start work to support JoBS, they are in contact with the author. This release has been working on FreeBSD 5.1 at any patchlevel. They plan to release one patchset which adds altq and pf to the main FreeBSD tree. Currently they are working with the RELENG_5_1 branch. Work has begun toward FreeBSD CURRENT. Their goal is to integrate pf and altq in the main FreeBSD CVStree.
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[url=http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=13369]Bron[/url]

Zoals we kunnen lezen heeft RE team volgende annoucement de deur uitgedaan:
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FreeBSD Release Engineering (RE) team has announced a code freeze of source tree on August 25 in preparation for the release scheduled for Septemer 29, 2003. After August 25, all commits to the RELENG_4 branch must be approved by FreeBSD release engineering team (re@FreeBSD.org). Certain highly active documentation committers are exempt from this rule for routine man page / release note updates. Heads-up emails should be sent to the developers@, stable@ and qa@ lists.
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The first release candidate for the x86 and Alpha architecture is scheduled for September 12. ISO images will be uploaded to ftp-master.freebsd.org and releng4.freebsd.org. A network install directory will be uploaded to ftp-master.freebsd.org. The packages/ directory will be a relative symlink, as described in the releng article. The ports tree will be tagged on September 19, 2003. The final package builds start September 19, final builds for x86 and Alpha in a pristine environment start September 25. Release packages will be uploaded September 26. The official release and release announcement comes on September 29, 2003. The RE team has also published FreeBSD 4.9 Open issues (TODO) list and Testing Guide for 4.9-RELEASE.
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[url=http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.9R/schedule.html]Bron[/url]

Netcraft bericht het volgende over het aantal sites dat FreeBSD draait:
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The proportion of active sites found by the Web Server Survey running
FreeBSD is growing. FreeBSD’s strength can be attributed to its adoption
by several of the most successful shared hosting companies‚ including
Yahoo which is growing its hosting operations very strongly.
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Dit is natuurlijk een goed teken
[url=http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/07/12/nearly_2_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html]De link[/url]

Bron: [url=http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=netbsd-tech-net&m=105662214826453&w=2]Bron[/url]
De NetBSD core developer itojun heeft OpenBSD’s Packet Filter (PF) geport naar NetBSD -current.

Hij vertelt dat de port nog niet helemaal compleet is en dat bepaalde dingen nog goed getest moeten worden. Maar hij wilt de port wel committen samen met een ALTQ update.

Verder is itojun bezig met de IPSec policy engine intregatie in PF. Dit zal setkey(8) overbodig maken.

Dus als alles mee zit dan krijgen we in NetBSD 2.0 PF als nieuwe packet filter. 🙂

[url=http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=netbsd-tech-net&m=105662214826453&w=2]Het hele artikel[/url]

Bij Network World Fusion is een artikel verschenen over de beveiliging van WLAN’s. Er worden zes verschillende type beveiligingen besproken. Het is eigenlijk een must om dit artikel te lezen indien je met WLAN’s aan de slag gaat.
[url=http://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=/export/home/httpd/htdocs/newsletters/edu/2003/0602ed1.html&pagename=/newsletters/edu/2003/0602ed1.html&pageurl=/newsletters/edu/2003/0602ed1.html]Het Artikel[/url]

Bij securityfocus is een artikel verschenen waarin staat beschreven hoe je Apache veilig kunt installeren en configureren. Dit houdt onder andere in dat je Apache in een chroot draait.
[url=http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1694]Het artikel[/url]