Saw this in the quarterly report - http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/free ... 77085.html
I thought this sandboxing method for Solaris was neat - https://blogs.oracle.com/gfaden/entry/a ... sandboxing
I wonder if it's possible to achieve something similar with FreeBSD?
Re: Install a 9.1 port in FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE
You could try installing the 1.4.1 binary for FreeBSD 10 from http://www.mediafire.com/wine_fbsd64#f08383483av15 which is via http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/wine/
It's 18 mths old so no idea whether it'll work with all the changes since then. At...
Re: Manage updates production system
Couple of examples, One could use pkg to remove compiled ports and/or their dependencies (these are usually installed when building from ports). You could also use it to check security notifications for binary and/or compiled programs.
Singling out Jason Applebaum's superb talk at 30c3 (due to FreeBSD being mentioned in slides) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vILAlhwUgIU
Some awesome speeches regarding government activities and abilities, quite disconcerting - http://www.youtube.com/user/CCCen/videos
I recommend doing a search of this forum for "mls", there was quite a bit of discussion about that not so long ago. It may point you in the right direction.
I laughed when I read about this. You have to wonder how people are blindly trusting their devices instead of their own eyes though.
"Huh? that's the strangest looking bus on the road I'm meant to be taking!"
SSD wear and tear
On a 128 GB SSD with 12 GB set aside for the OS and writing 7 GB to disk every day, it would take 422 years to wear out the SSD. A Samsung 840 Pro is guaranteed for 5 years @ 40 GB writes/day.
Building packages with ports-mgmt/poudriere is an alternative, a build instance per...
Kwooty is currenty at v1.0.1 (2013-04-01) while ports has v0.8.3 (2012-03-28). The current version of net/kwooty builds and runs with zero issues. No issues when building with archivers/par2cmdline-tbb to gain multi-threading par2 support and thus avoiding conflicts with news/sabnzbdplus...
Daily snapshots can be found at https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/
In the ftp directory of the required arch/release you'l find the relevant src.txz
The DTrace book is on offer until July 8th, use the code JULY4 to get it for $29 - http://www.informit.com/store/dtrace-dynamic-tracing-in-oracle-solaris-mac-os-x-and-9780132091510
For more info, sample chapter etc
http://smartos.org/2013/07/03/smartoos-news-july-3-2013/...
It might sound pissy but Linux kernel developers are pretty much constantly accused of passing off security vulnerabilities as simple bugs. It would not be unfair to say there is a very lax attitude to publishing security advisories.
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