Slashdot: BSDNews for nerds, stuff that mattersFreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available- February 28, 2008 cperciva writes "The first release from the new 7-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, has been released. FreeBSD 7.0 brings with it many new features including support for ZFS, journaled filesystems, and SCTP, as well as dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability. In addition to being available from many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."Read more...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBsd/~3/242422952/article.pl What's New In FreeBSD 7.0- February 26, 2008 blackbearnh writes "FreeBSD is about to release the much-anticipated version 7, and as usual there's a comprehensive interview with over two dozen of the major contributors over at O'Reilly's ONLamp site. Federico Biancuzzi interviewed the developers to discuss all the details of FreeBSD 7.0: networking and SMP performance, SCTP support, the new IPSEC stack, virtualization, monitoring frameworks, ports, storage limits and a new journaling facility, what changed in the accounting file format,...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBsd/~3/241754638/article.pl OpenBSD Will Not Fix PRNG Weakness- February 10, 2008 snake-oil-security writes "Last fall Amit Klein found a serious weakness in the OpenBSD PRNG (pseudo-random number generator), which allows an attacker to predict the next DNS transaction ID. The same flavor of this PRNG is used in other places like the OpenBSD kernel network stack. Several other BSD operating systems copied the OpenBSD code for their own PRNG, so they're vulnerable too; Apple's Darwin-based Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, and also NetBSD, FreeBSD, and DragonFlyBSD. All the...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBsd/~3/232605944/article.pl |