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  1. thortos

    FreeBSD to rethink target audience?

    I do, but I also see that there aren't many systems which are affected by any of those vulnerabilites, and most of them require local access of some kind. (If somebody has local access, you're fscked anyway. And what is that about a vulnerability that only affects systems with writable-only...
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    FreeBSD to rethink target audience?

    BSD != Windows If we were talking about Windows (which needs a reboot with almost every security update) or Linux (which has lots of kernel updates requiring reboots because they cramp everything into the kernel), I'd agree. But actually I cannot remember any vulnerability in the FreeBSD...
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    FreeBSD to rethink target audience?

    The media shouldn't bother you; they don't know anything about FreeBSD, yet Netcraft still lists it a lot among the longest-lasting sites. I just fear as long as Linux has such strong momentum, you can't score with a FreeBSD based desktop distro unless it's absolutely amazing from the layman's...
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    install without CD-ROM/DVD

    How about installing via serial port? I have never done it and have no idea how to do it, but I remember that our ISP once did it with our old mail server. A quick Google search turned up this which looks useful, YMMV.
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    FreeBSD to rethink target audience?

    They want it, they can provide it. No, quite the opposite. If they come along and say "here, we provide you with a desktop variant of FreeBSD", they cannot lean back and go "OK, FreeBSD devs, now you give our users what they want". After all, those users who *are* interested in running FreeBSD...
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    FreeBSD to rethink target audience?

    I didn't remember that part of the handbook. :) I do, however, remember that the tagline on the FreeBSD website is "The Power To Serve", as I do remember my own attempts at running FreeBSD (5 at that time) as my main desktop OS. It's not unfriendly, but it's picky at who its friends are. ;)...
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    FreeBSD to rethink target audience?

    You must be kidding. So, your screen stayed black, the HDD wasn't spinning up and your USB peripherals weren't accessible? Yeah, I thought so. FreeBSD is a server OS. Servers don't do hibernation. They serve stuff. Part of this is staying available 99.9% of the time or more. There's...
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    The FreeBSD SysAdmin's Favorite Tools

    Yes you are. UDP is connectionless It throws the packets by the way of the destination and doesn't care about them once they're gone. This is why you can't telnet via UDP (you can't connect with a connectionless protocol), and this is also why the output of nc is correct - it could perfectly...
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    Recommended way of staying up to date?

    I don't want an actual solution, I'd rather discuss general experiences with all those (to me) new-fangled ways of managing ports, because I guess somebody here must be using one tool or the other and tell a bit about what's nice about them, gotchas and so on. I'm using FreeBSD since 4.5 or...
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    Recommended way of staying up to date?

    What is the recommended way of keeping one's systems up to date? There are several tools such as portupgrade, portmanager, portaudit, portsnap etc and I'd like to hear what people are really using. How do you have your machines auto-update vulnerable software? Do you employ different...
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    UFS Backup

    This strategy will probably fail for every server being used more than marginally. Especially dumping databases that are in use (such as Postgres or mySQL data directories) will yield inconsistent results and most likely result in non-working databases after recovery. While I am aware that...
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