IPsec VPN and NAT

At work we run a number of IPsec VPN tunnels to peers all over the world and we have always been concerned about possible RFC1918 address space collisions between our network and one of the other companies - it is surprising how often administrators keep the default 192.168.0.0/24 network! To the best of our knowledge on OpenBSD there was no good technical solution to the problem, and migrating the whole partner network to a unique address space is often politically unacceptable or too expensive.

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Linux VS Bsd - Which One Is Better

An interesting article about the differences between GNU\Linux and *BSD.

Open source Mono framework brings C# to iPhone and Wii

"Mono, an open source implementation of .NET runtime, is bringing Microsoft's development technologies to some unexpected places, including the iPhone, Android, and the Wii.

According to Novell's lead Mono developer, Miguel de Icaza, several applications in Apple's App Store are powered by Mono. This might come as a bit of a surprise to those familiar with Apple's highly restrictive application inclusion policies, because the company strictly prohibits developers from using interpreted languages and third-party runtime environments—a constraint that largely rules out technologies like .NET and Java."

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FreeBSD Security Advisory

FreeBSD-SA-09:01.lukemftpd
FreeBSD-SA-09:02.openssl

How to load content via AJAX in jQuery

This tutorial will show you How to load content via AJAX in jQuery.

FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE Available

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:

• The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads.

• Support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported from OpenSolaris. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework.

• A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client.

• Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices.

• The cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment.

• KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3.

• DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:

* http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/relnotes.html
* http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/errata.html

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Volunteers Needed to add Subtitles to Conference Videos

We now have over 23 videos uploaded to the BSD Conferences video channel from MeetBSD, NYCBSDCon, and other BSD conferences.

I'd really like to add subtitles to the YouTube metadata as this has been requested by several users. Once we have subtitles they will be autotmatically machine translated so that users can choose captions in the language they are most comfortable with.

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Minor heads up: OpenBSM parts updated

Just a minor heads up that I've done an import of OpenBSM 1.1 alpha 4 into head, with the intent of shaking out bugs so that we can ship OpenBSM 1.1 in 7.2-RELEASE in a few months. There are a number of changes in 1.1, including a libauditd so that launchd on Mac OS X can link parts of auditd into it directly, binary format changes (largely enhancements), etc. Please send feedback to trustedbsd-audit@TrustedBSD.org if you run into any issues.

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FreeBSD: Foundation Fundraising Update

Dear FreeBSD Community,

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce we are only $38,000 away from our 2008 fundraising goal of $300,000! We have received so many donations in the last few weeks. We want to thank everyone who has made a donation. By donating to the foundation, you are helping to support the FreeBSD Project and community.

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FreeBSD 6.4 CDs/DVDs Now Shipping from FreeBSDMall

FreeBSD Mall, Inc. is happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.4-based products. The four CD set and DVD are now shipping to subscribers around the world.

If you haven't yet placed your order, you may do so at http://www.freebsdmall.com.

You may also elect to start your subscription with the upcoming 7.1 release.

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Jemdoc - A Tool For Creating Static HTML Pages

Jemdoc is a python script, which processes files written in jemdoc’s syntax (which is far much easier than html) to generate clean XHTML 1.1 compliant static html webpages. Ah, and the most important fact about Jemdoc: It’s free (as in free speech).

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FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available

FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 is now available, the second of the Release Candidates. Unless an as yet undiscovered show-stopper comes along the release itself will be anywhere from a week to two weeks from now. We *might* be doing it next week since the release test cycle has gone on for quite a while now and the latest thing that delayed the release was a Security Advisory (SAs don't typically get or need much in the way of public
testing). The traffic we're seeing on the lists and in Gnats is certainly stuff we'll pay attention to and deal with but isn't quite severe enough to warrant further delaying an already severely delayed release.

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5 Ways To Create Custom Multiple Signatures In GMail

Has Google missed the tree because of the forest? Gmail has done a lot for unwrapping email from the staid “click and send”. It enables us to do many things such as collect our mails from several POP3 accounts, configure some custom addresses with a dot here and there…but it just plain ‘forgot’ to put in a box to add multiple HTML Gmail signatures...

Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux released

Adobe Systems has released Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux. Adobe Air 1.5 is main component in Adobe Flash platform and it enables framework and support for web developers (HTML, JavaScript, Flex) for running Web applications without browser.

Now, web developers can use Adobe Air 1.5 framework for developing applications that will work as native on Linux, Windows and MacOS.

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NVIDIA on PcBSD

"PcBSD has full support from NVIDIA, so if you are using NVIDIA graphic card you souldn't have problem with that. But, usually if you just buy a new NVIDIA graphic card its no driver avalaible on the installation DVD. To get the newest driver you can go to NVIDIA download page.

Just download the suitable driver for your graphic card, and install it. Its little different with Linux systems, on Linux systems you have to use run level 3 to install NVIDIA driver. But on PcBSD systems, just open your konsole, extract the compressed file, and install it."

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NetBSD feature end-of-life announcement: soft dependencies

Soft dependencies, also known as soft updates or softdep, is a method of maintaining file system integrity across an unscheduled system shutdown. It improves file system performance by allowing metadata writes to the file system to take place asynchronously. Soft dependencies was introduced with NetBSD 1.5.

The upcoming 5.0 release of NetBSD will include an alternative technology contributed by Wasabi Systems Inc.: Write Ahead Physical Block Logging, or logging. Logging will provide a feature set and performance profile superior to soft dependencies. One compelling advantage is that file systems using it need not be checked with the fsck utility after an unscheduled system shutdown.

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