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Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first …read more Continue reading FreeBSD at 30: the History and Future of the Most Popular BSD-Based OS
FreeBSD 14.0 is now available for the amd64, aarch64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, and riscv64 architectures. FreeBSD provides sophisticated features in networking, performance, security, and compatibility. It serves as an … Continue reading FreeBSD 14.0 released, OpenSSH and OpenSSL updated
What’s the best practice for dealing with ICMP traffic to a public facing web server? I know similar
questions have been asked a number of times, but what’s still lacking is a clear, current answer in the context of public facing web serve… Continue reading Current verdict on ICMP traffic to a public facing web server?
Last month I started a series in which I try out different operating systems with the aim of using them for my everyday work, and my pick was Slackware 15, …read more Continue reading Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeBSD 13.2
In 2017, I was running a local website on my own dedicated server in a professional data center. FreeBSD. Installed by me remotely. Maintained carefully by me. No other human users than myself. I was the only one with SSH access or indeed … Continue reading Is it possible for a hostname lookup to be temporarily lying (wrong ISP)?
It’s a venerable program, and this version had a venerable bug in it. Continue reading Ping of death! FreeBSD fixes crashtastic bug in network tool
[Eaton Zveare] purchased a Jacuzzi hot tub, and splurged for the SmartTub add-on, which connects the whirlpool to the internet so you can control temperature, lights, etc from afar. He …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: IoT In the Hot Tub, App Double Fail, and FreeBSD BadBeacon
OpenBSD has had much fewer "code execution" vulnerabilities and even fewer exploits than FreeBSD, according to https://cvedetails.com :
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/163/Openbsd-Openbsd.html?vendor_id=97
https://www.cvedeta… Continue reading Would FreeBSD and OpenBSD have similar known-past-vulnerability stats if they were configured similarly?
While the medium may have evolved from floppy disks to DVDs and USB flash drives, the overall process of installing an operating system onto a desktop computer has been more …read more Continue reading FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks the OS Install
The programmers among us are learning… but not always quickly enough, it seems. Here’s some food for coding thought… Continue reading IoT bug report claims “at least 100M devices” may be impacted