The July to September 2012 Status Report is now available with 12 entries.
July-September 2012 Status Report
October-December 2012 Status Report
The October to December 2012 Status Report is now available with 27 entries.
NetBSD To Support Kernel Development In Lua Scripting
An anonymous reader writes “NetBSD 7.0 will support the Lua scripting language within its kernel for developing drivers and new sub-systems. A Lua scripting interpreter is being added to the NetBSD kernel along with a kernel API so developers can use this scripting language rather than C for developing new BSD kernel components. Expressed reasons for supporting a scripting language in a kernel were rapid application development, better configuration, and “modifying software written in C is hard for users.” In a presentation it was said that Lua in the kernel will let users explore their system in an easy way.”
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SSH Password Gropers Are Now Trying High Ports
badger.foo writes “You thought you had successfully avoided the tiresome password guessing bots groping at your SSH service by moving the service to a non-standard port? It seems security by obscurity has lost the game once more. We’re now seeing ssh bruteforce attempts hitting other ports too, Peter Hansteen writes in his latest column.” For others keeping track, have you seen many such attempts?
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The State of BSD At the Start of 2013
An anonymous reader writes “NetBSD developer Julian Djamil Fagir provides a nice briefing on what the big three BSD projects have been working on, and explains/reminds us of their cultural differences. Stick a fork in them? Yes, Djamil Fagir mentions a couple of those, too. The recent releases from FreeBSD and NetBSD were covered by Slashdot.”
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New committer: Po-Chien Lin (ports)
Arch GNU/Linux Ported To Run On the FreeBSD Kernel
An anonymous reader writes “The Arch Linux distribution has been modified to run off the FreeBSD 9.0 kernel as an alternative to using Linux. The developer of Arch BSD explained his reasoning as enjoying FreeBSD while also liking the Arch Linux philosophy of a ‘fast, lightweight, optimized distro,’ so he sought to combine the two operating systems to have FreeBSD at its core while being encircled by Arch. The Arch BSD initiative is similar to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.”
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