Finally, a much more eventful week. I already noted LibreSSL’s release.
- DiscoverBSD’s news summary for 2014/07/07.
- PC-BSD Digest 31 – there’s now a PC-BSD IRC channel.
- Your server can probably tell you the temperature.
- Future of pf in FreeBSD? Follow the thread. (via)
- DragonFly’s pf alterations discussed for OpenBSD. It wouldn’t be easy without some of the underlying DragonFly architecture, but something for everyone to remember: Henning Brauer is generous with his time and will help people updating pf.
- mfiutil on FreeBSD.
- ia64 processor support is gone from FreeBSD.
- NetBSD now has BIND 9.10.0-P2.
- FreeBSD now has bmake-20140620.
- OpenBSD now has lynx 2.8.8rel2.
- OpenBSD’s relayd now has a new filter language.
- pkgsrc 2014Q2 binaries are out now for several platforms.
- FreeBSD has a new core team.
- More cross-pollination – also from Android?
- OpenBSD-current users will need to update their kernel.
That FreeBSD pf thread is interesting, although the patches mentioned by pfSense guys (Jim and Ermal) haven’t been seen in the wild. I did code audits for older FreeBSD 10 patches based on pfSense 2.2 alpha (patches which have now disappeared since they are not directly BSD licensed anymore — long story) that they had and one reliably crashed the kernel, others were of unclear quality.
Oh, and none of those early patches have made its way into FreeBSD up until now. But I might have missed them. I’d appreciate it if anybody else knows more.
Our Baptiste is now in the FreeBSD Core team, that’s pretty cool.
I guess the update to Lynx in OpenBSD has sparked a surprisingly heated debate on the OpenBSD tech mailing list about whether gopher (and other protocol) support should be stripped out of the version of Lynx that is in the base, or indeed whether Lynx should be removed entirely from base.
Does anyone use gopher?
_Did_ anyone ever use gopher?
And now lynx is gone from OpenBSD base!
Also, gopher sounds neat in principle. I enjoy finding old books about the internet that spend chapters on Gopher.