DistroWatch reviews FreeBSD 12.0

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FreeBSD is a member of the UNIX family of operating systems and probably the most widely used member of the major BSD flavours. FreeBSD offers a famously stable and high performance core which has resulted in the operating system being used by Netflix to stream content and by Sony as a basis for their PlayStation operating system. FreeBSD tends to be especially popular on servers where long term reliability is required. Though FreeBSD can function as a desktop operating system, its market share on the desktop remains low and people who want to run a FreeBSD-based desktop are likely to use a related project such as GhostBSD where the graphical configuration has been done for us.

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28 March 2024
FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-24:05.tty  

Under certain conditions an unprivileged user could provoke a kernel panic.

FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-24:06.wireguard  

The part of the mbuf chain being sent along may contain some invalid state that causes a later fault and panic.

FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-24:07.clang  

The compiler crashes instead of generating an object file.

FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-24:08.kerberos  

Attempting to use weak crypto routines when the legacy provider is not loaded results in the application crashing.

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-24:03.unbound  

A trivially orchestrated attack could render all threads busy with such responses leading to denial of service.

27 March 2024
On Starting the 2024 FreeBSD Foundation Budget Journey  

FreeBSD Foundation shares their approach to the FreeBSD Foundation’s budget for 2024. Their commitment to supporting the FreeBSD community and project remains steadfast, funded entirely through the generous contributions of donations and grants.

TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version  

The oldest vendor of BSD systems is changing direction away from FreeBSD and toward Linux. There are already mutterings about a fork, so let's see.

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22 March 2024
BSD Now 551: The Story of Port 22  

This week on the show, The story of SSH getting port 22, GGC using Clang, AuxRunner, Stabweek, Using a Kensington SlimBladePro on OpenBSD, and more...

21 March 2024
March 2024 Partnerships Update  

Two sponsored development projects that began at the end of Q4 ‘23 and in January are proceeding well. One, sponsored by RG Nets, is porting VPP to FreeBSD. The other is adding the IOMMU driver to support AMD chips with 512+ cores.

19 March 2024
OpenBSD Errata: March 18, 2024 (expat)  

Errata patches for libexpat XML library have been released for OpenBSD 7.3 and 7.4. Binary updates for the amd64, arm64 and i386 platform are available via the syspatch utility.

FreeBSD 2023 fundraising recap  

They’ve closed the books on their 2023 accounting, and can share that the FreeBSD Foundation raised $1,263,772.05 towards their goal last year. In article, you can learn what are they planning to use it for.

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