*BSD news from the past

Bron: [url=http://www.php.net]PHP.net[/url]

Er is wegens een security bug een nieuwe release van PHP.
Iedereen wordt aangeraden deze nieuwe versie of de patch te installeren!
[url=http://www.php.net/downloads.php]Downloads[/url]
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Info:
[quote]Due to a security issue found in all versions of PHP (including 3.x and 4.x), a new version of PHP has been released. Details about the security issue are available here. All users of PHP are strongly encouraged to either upgrade to PHP 4.1.2, or install the patch (available for PHP 3.0.18, 4.0.6 and 4.1.0/4.1.1).
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Details:
[quote]PHP supports multipart/form-data POST requests (as described in RFC1867) known as POST fileuploads. Unfourtunately there are several flaws in the php_mime_split function that could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code. During our research we found out that not only PHP4 but also older versions from the PHP3 tree are vulnerable.
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[url=http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012002.html]Lees meer…[/url]

The latest version of CylantSecure adds support for FreeBSD 4.4. CylantSecure is a host-based intrusion detection and prevention system that uses kernel-level behavioral monitoring to detect attacks. The CylantSecure system supports multiple platforms (FreeBSD and Linux at the present).

We have released the kernel level components of CylantSecure into the public domain through the Kernel Instrumentation Project kip.sf.net. The FreeBSD 4.4 patch is at:
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http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/kip/patches/freebsd-4.4-kp.patch

A free evaluation version of CylantSecure can be downloaded at:
http://www.cylant.com/products/cs/eval.html

[url=http://www.cylant.com/news/06.html]Link[/url]

Bij Osnews is een interview verschenen met de FreeBSD maintainer. Dit interview is
opgezet uit een irc log en daarna herschreven.

Er worden vrij diepgaande vragen beantwoord en als je een beetje thuis ben in het OS
is het erg leuk om dit te weten.
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Wat leuke quote’s:
[quote]Jordan Hubbard: I think the coolest feature of 5.0 will be the ferret thread. This is a kernel thread which runs around throughout the system and randomly moves
things around, playfully changes file modes, “bites” through open connections and just generally raises havok. We feel that this feature will make the computer more of a pet
than a simple inanimate object.[/quote]
Hier ben ik het ook wel mee eens:
[quote]How do you feel about X windows ? Would it be feasable to mimick some of the better attributes of the OS X GUI with GNUStep or perhaps a BSD liscensed implementation?

Well, I certainly have been using the X window system for a long time and have written a fair amount of software for it; For what it does, it rocks but for what it doesn’t do, it really sucks.
Don’t even talk to me about font handling or printing. I think that before you’re going to see X really get some decent applications, you’re going to have to finish the missing 5% of X —
the part that was scheduled to take 90% of the time and so nobody got around to it. Plus, the whole UI war thing needs to end — Adobe is never going to port photoshop while nobody can answer “Which
GUI environment is dominant and therefore recommended for use?”. I think X will probably remain the DOS of window systems.[/quote]
Volg deze [url=http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=676&page=all]link[/url] voor het interview.

Bron: [url=http://www.zdnet.com/]ZDNet.com[/url]

In dit vrij diepgaande artikel van Mark Hubley wordt de toekomst bekeken van de
verschillende BSD’s.

Er wordt eerst even naar het verleden gekeken hoe de BSD’s zijn ontstaan en daarna
worden de verschillen ten opzichte van Linux uitgelegd.
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Na deze vergelijking worden de verschillende BSD besproken en gaat men verder in op de toekomst van deze BSD’s.

Wat leuke quote’s uit het erg prettig geschreven artikel:
[quote]
One of the hurdles right now for the most widely used BSD distribution, FreeBSD, is the decision in October 2001 by Wind River Systems (WRS) to divest itself of the
FreeBSD project. FreeBSD has gone through a whirlwind of changes over the past couple of years, as its major distributors changed from Walnut Creek to BSDi and in
early 2001 to WRS. WRS currently owns the FreeBSD trademark, and its decision to discontinue its involvement lends credence to the impression that the operating
system’s future is in question as the company decides what to do with it.

But the company is not the moving force behind FreeBSD�its major backing is in the form of the FreeBSD community�a group of hundreds of worldwide volunteers who
continue to be enthusiastic and develop FreeBSD. [/quote]

Tuurlijk moet Yahoo nog even aangehaald worden:
[quote]Yahoo continues to use thousands of FreeBSD servers, with more being put
into production all the time.[/quote]
De compatibiliteit van de BSD’s
[quote]All three major open source BSDs now have good Linux support and claim
some Linux binaries run faster on BSD than on Linux. BSDs also variously claim to be
capable of running binaries for SVR4, SCO Unix, character-mode DOS, SunOS, and
HP-UX[/quote]
De rest kun je [url=http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265-1,00.html]hier[/url] lezen

Source: [url=http://www.osnews.com]OSNews.com[/url]

OSNews published a guide that could help users migrate from Linux to FreeBSD by spotting the main differences between the two popular systems. Interesting read & relevant to the recent FreeBSD 4.5 release a few days ago.

[url=http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=580]Link[/url]

Vandaag is FreeBSD 4.5 dan werkelijk gereleased.

Hieronder het bericht op de FreeBSD announce mailinglist:
[quote]
I am very pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD
4.5-RELEASE, the very latest release on the FreeBSD -STABLE branch of
development. Since FreeBSD 4.4 was released in September 2001, we
have made hundreds of fixes, updated many system components, made
several substantial performance improvements, and addressed a wide
variety of security issues.

Thanks!
– Murray
[/quote]

Kijk hier voor de volledige release notes:
[url=http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.5R/announce.html]Release notes FreeBSD 4.5[/url]