The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team says, pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE. At this time 6.4-RELEASE is expected to be the last of the 6-STABLE releases. Some of the highlights: 1. New and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client 2. Support for the Camellia cipher 3. boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices with GPT-enabled BIOSes 4. DVD install ISO images for amd64/i386 5. KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3 6. Updates for BIND, sendmail, OpenPAM, and others . Read more.
FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE Announcement
November 29, 2008 at 3:51 am (BSD)
Tags: FreeBSD
FreeBSD-SA-08.11.arc4random: Predictable Sequence Vulnerability
November 26, 2008 at 7:07 pm (BSD)
Tags: FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Project says, arc4random(9) is a generic-purpose random number generator based on the key stream generator of the RC4 cipher. It is expected to be cryptographically strong, and used throughout the FreeBSD kernel for a variety of purposes, some of which rely on its cryptographic strength. arc4random(9) is periodically reseeded with entropy from the FreeBSD kernel’s Yarrow random number generator, which gathers entropy from a variety of sources including hardware interrupts. During the boot process, additional entropy is provided to the Yarrow random number generator from userland, helping to ensure that adequate entropy is present for cryptographic purposes. Read more.
Joomla 1.5.8 Released
November 23, 2008 at 2:05 pm (GEN)
Tags: Joomla
Joomla Bug Squad says, the Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.8 [Wohnaiki]. This release contains a number of bug fixes and two moderate-level security fixes. It has been around two months since Joomla 1.5.7 was released on September 9, 2008. The Development Working Group’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community. Read more.
Dattebayo to Drop Naruto Effective 1/15/2009
November 22, 2008 at 7:28 am (GEN)
Tags: Dattebayo, Naruto, Shippuuden
Interactii says, welcome my friends, my enemies, and those whom I do not yet know. Let’s sit and talk for a while, you and me. We haven’t talked in some time. Let’s explore the past a little, and chat about the present and future. Naruto has been around for a very long time now. When I started downloading fansubs in early 2003, Naruto was already past its 20th episode. I used to watch TW’s releases. At that time, TW’s releases got about 8,000 downloads per episode in a week, and TW released 5 weeks after airing in Japan. By May 2004, with TW languishing, AONE had primarily taken over Naruto. Naruto’s popularity had soared. AONE was releasing a week after airing in Japan, a schedule they would keep for a long time. They were averaging 60,000 downloads per episode after a week by episode 85. When Anime-Heaven (the precursor to Dattebayo) started 6 weeks later, it got 60,000 downloads on its first release, a low-quality speed sub. At that time, because AONE was releasing a week after airing, there was room for other people to try to do it faster. Read more.
FreeBSD-SA-08:10.nd6: IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol routing vulnerability
November 21, 2008 at 1:15 pm (BSD)
Tags: FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Project says, IPv6 nodes use the Neighbor Discovery protocol to determine the link-layer address of other nodes, find routers, and maintain reachability information. The Neighbor Discovery protocol uses Neighbor Solicitation (ICMPv6 type 135) to query target nodes for their link-layer addresses. Read more.
Review: PC-BSD 7
November 10, 2008 at 5:36 am (BSD)
Tags: FreeBSD
Amjith Ramanujam says, recently the PC-BSD team released their latest stable version (PC-BSD 7) code-named Fibonacci Edition. Some of major changes from the previous version include a newer kernel, an experimental ZFS module, and a KDE 4 for desktop environment. Being a Linux junkie, I thought of this as a perfect opportunity to venture into the BSD arena. PC-BSD is a flavor of FreeBSD. Their official website describes PC-BSD as a complete desktop operating system, designed with the “casual” computer user in mind. This version is an effort to make the BSD Unix more accessible to newcomers, especially those who are switching from Windows or OS X. Read more.
