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Announcements pertaining to FreeBSD. (Moderated)
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BSDCan 2012 - call for papers - extension
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We apologize that [link] was offline for 12 hours from early Sunday morning.
The deadline for submissions has been extended to Tuesday 31 January.
BSDCan 2012 will be held 11-12 May, 2012 in Ottawa at the University of
Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 9-10 May.... more »
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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report October-December, 2011
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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report October-December, 2011
Introduction
This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between October and
December 2011. It is the last of the four reports planned for 2011.
This quarter was mainly devoted to polishing the bits for the next
major version of FreeBSD, 9.0, which was already successfully released... more »
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Foundation Funding auditdistd Project
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The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Pawel Jakub Dawidek has
been awarded a grant to implement auditdistd daemon.
The FreeBSD audit facility provides fine-grained, configurable logging
of security-relevant events. One of the key purposes of logging
security events is postmortem analysis in case of system compromise.... more »
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FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Available
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The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch,
which improves on stable/8 and adds many new features. Some of the
highlights:
- A new installer, bsdinstall(8) has been added and is the installer... more »
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BSDCan 2012 - call for papers
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BSDCan 2012 will be held 11-12 May, 2012 in Ottawa at the University of
Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 9-10 May.
NOTE: This will be Fri/Sat with tutorials on Wed/Thu.
We are now accepting proposals for talks.
The talks should be designed with a very strong technical content bias.... more »
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Foundation Announces Newly Funded Project
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The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has awarded Bjoern
Zeeb a grant to analyze the performance of FreeBSD's IPv6 stack. This
project is jointly sponsored with iXsystems.
Last year, Bjoern improved FreeBSD IPv6 support, allowing the
possibility to build a FreeBSD system without IPv4 support. This project... more »
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FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-12:01.freebsd-updat e
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FreeBSD-EN-12:01.freebsd-updat e Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: freebsd-update support for FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE... more »
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It's Not Too Late To Donate!
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Dear FreeBSD Community,
Thank you to everyone who has made a donation to the FreeBSD Foundation this year! We have raised over $310,000 from 691 donors towards our goal of $400,000 for 2011.
We are grateful for the outpouring of support we have received and the hundreds of volunteers who help support the FreeBSD Project.... more »
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Merry Christmas from the FreeBSD Security Team
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Hi all,
No, the Grinch didn't steal the FreeBSD security officer GPG key, and your eyes
aren't deceiving you: We really did just send out 5 security advisories.
The timing, to put it bluntly, sucks. We normally aim to release advisories on
Wednesdays in order to maximize the number of system administrators who will be... more »
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FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-11:10.pam
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FreeBSD-SA-11:10.pam Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: pam_start() does not validate service names... more »
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