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OpenBSD is a free, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. The 57th release, OpenBSD 7.6, comes with new features, various improvements, bug fixes, and tweaks. Security improvements Added -fret-clean option to the compiler, defaulting t… Continue reading OpenBSD 7.6 released: security improvements, new hardware support, and more!
Rspamd is an open-source spam filtering and email processing framework designed to evaluate messages based on a wide range of rules, including regular expressions, statistical analysis, and integrations with custom services like URL blacklists. The sys… Continue reading Rspamd: Open-source spam filtering system
Ancient Slashdot reader ewhac writes: On June 19, 1984, Robert Scheifler announced on MIT’s Project Athena mailing list a new graphical windowing system he’d put together. Having cribbed a fair bit of code from the existing windowing toolkit called W, … Continue reading X Window System Turns 40
Liam Proven reports via The Register: The latest version of the systemd init system is out, with the openly confrontational tag line: “Available soon in your nearest distro, now with 42 percent less Unix philosophy.” As Lennart Poettering’s announcemen… Continue reading Version 256 of systemd Boasts ‘42% Less Unix Philosophy’
Michael ‘Mike’ Karels, one of the authors of “The Design and Implementation of the 4.4Bsd Operating System” and a part of the Computer Systems Research Group at Berkeley, who received the USENIX Association Lifetime Achievement Award, has died. Longtim… Continue reading Mike Karels, of 4.4 BSD Fame, Has Died
There exists several sudo alternatives (systemd’s run0, OpenBSD and doas, etc.), all created after sudo has been an established tool, allegedly for security reasons.
What are the technical obstacles in implementing good old sudo?
Continue reading What are the security related challenges in implementing unix sudo?
There exist several sudo alternatives (systemd’s run0, OpenBSD and doas, etc.), all created after sudo has been an established tool, allegedly for security reasons.
If someone were to implement Unix sudo from scratch today, what would be t… Continue reading What are the security related challenges in implementing something like Unix sudo?
Sudo has been with us for over 40 years, and it has several CVEs reported and fixed every year. The tool must have been in the spotlight for its inherent involvement in computer security and widespread use, so one might be tempted to belie… Continue reading What makes sudo so hard to secure? [closed]
Slashdot reader Mononymous writes: The latest release of OpenBSD, the FOSS Unix-like operating system focused on correctness and security over features and performance, has been released. This version includes newer driver support, performance improvem… Continue reading OpenBSD 7.5 Released
“After being in development since 2019, the huge NetBSD 10.0 is out today as a wonderful Easter surprise,” reports Phoronix:
NetBSD 10 provides WireGuard support, support for many newer Arm platforms including for Apple Silicon and newer Raspberry Pi … Continue reading In Development Since 2019, NetBSD 10.0 Finally Released