Fwd: Paying to port to FreeBSD

2021-01-14 Thread grarpamp
-- Forwarded message -- From: "James B. Byrne Reply-To: byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 Subject: Paying to port to FreeBSD I wish to trial a software package (aubit4gl) on FreeBSD. The application is written in C and has a maintainer. However, he is not fam

FreeBSD moving to Git -- OpenBSD FreeBSD: Why and How

2020-10-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Well, good news for OS diversity fans - FreeBSD is transitioning, to Git that is :) FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=FreeBSD-Q3-2020-Report .. - On the Git front, their transitioning from

Re: OpenBSD FreeBSD: Why and How

2019-11-13 Thread rooty
HI KURT Original Message On Nov 13, 2019, 6:40 PM, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote: > https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01 > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 6:03 PM grarpamp wrote: >> >> https://sivers.org/openbsd >> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21521774 >>

Re: OpenBSD FreeBSD: Why and How

2019-11-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
A primary thing *BSD needs for "hip young newbie" attractiveness is something less geriatric than CVS as their source code distribution system... no matter how secure, stable etc it is, it's $CURRENT_YEAR already and I for one welcome our Git overlords. There's "conservative, stable processes",

Re: OpenBSD FreeBSD: Why and How

2019-11-13 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01 On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 6:03 PM grarpamp wrote: > > https://sivers.org/openbsd > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21521774 > > https://openbsd.org/ > https://freebsd.org/

OpenBSD FreeBSD: Why and How

2019-11-13 Thread grarpamp
https://sivers.org/openbsd https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21521774 https://openbsd.org/ https://freebsd.org/

Git/Mtn for FreeBSD, PGP WoT Sigs, Merkel Hash Tree Based

2019-09-16 Thread grarpamp
For consideration... SVN really may not offer much in the way of native internal self authenticating repo to cryptographic levels of security against bitrot, transit corruption and repo ops, external physical editing, have much signing options, etc. Similar to blockchain and ZFS hash

IBM Power9 now running FreeBSD and AMDGPU

2018-12-22 Thread grarpamp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531022 https://github.com/POWER9BSD/freebsd https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article=power9-x86-servers https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Blackbird-POWER9-Pre-Orders https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article=power9-threadripper-core9

Re: Exploit Lecture: Writing FreeBSD Malware

2018-04-27 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 10:39:38PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT_k06Xg-BE > > Without exploit mitigations and with an insecure-by-default design, > writing malware for FreeBSD is a fun task, taking us back to 1999-era > Linux exploit authorship.

Exploit Lecture: Writing FreeBSD Malware

2018-04-27 Thread grarpamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT_k06Xg-BE Without exploit mitigations and with an insecure-by-default design, writing malware for FreeBSD is a fun task, taking us back to 1999-era Linux exploit authorship. Several members of FreeBSD's development team have claimed that Capsicum, a capabilities

Re: [tor-relays] FreeBSD 11.1 ZFS Tor Image

2018-02-28 Thread grarpamp
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:43 AM, mick wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:47:06 -0500 > grarpamp allegedly wrote: > >> If ovh vps gives root, bypass the fee with: md(4) vnode > geli > >> mount. >> >> Then again, if the iron isn't dipped in epoxy (not done), in

FreeBSD 2017Q2 Report

2017-10-08 Thread grarpamp
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.html

Re: FreeBSD

2017-04-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:35 PM, grarpamp <grarp...@gmail.com> wrote: > FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwbO4eTieQY > > https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=freebsd+raspberry+pi Somewhat dated, but still relevant: http://www.over-yonder.n

FreeBSD

2017-04-12 Thread grarpamp
FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwbO4eTieQY https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=freebsd+raspberry+pi

Re: FreeBSD Status Report

2016-11-15 Thread John Newman
a fresh look at where we have come from, and > where we are going. This quarter, we had our newest doc committer > working to trace through the tangled history of many utilities, and we > also get a glimpse looking forward at what may come in FreeBSD 12. > > Though 11.0-RELEASE

FreeBSD Status Report

2016-11-15 Thread grarpamp
the tangled history of many utilities, and we also get a glimpse looking forward at what may come in FreeBSD 12. Though 11.0-RELEASE was not finalized until after the period covered in this report, we can still have some anticipatory excitement for the features that will be coming in 12.0

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-12 Thread John Newman
n from IPF. Or copied. Whatever you > > want to call it. > > > > Pf has made some nice improvements in the years since, but there is no > > doubt it started as a clone of IPF so Theo could include the superior > > software firewall mechanism in openbsd without the

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-12 Thread John Newman
> On Oct 12, 2016, at 7:04 AM, John Newman <j...@synfin.org> wrote: > > >>> On Oct 12, 2016, at 12:48 AM, grarpamp <grarp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:28 PM, John Newman <j...@synfin.org> wrote: >>> Y

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-12 Thread John Newman
> On Oct 12, 2016, at 12:48 AM, grarpamp <grarp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:28 PM, John Newman <j...@synfin.org> wrote: >> Yes I use FreeBSD 10 >> it has supported PF >> for a long time, which it basically stole from

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-12 Thread grarpamp
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Tom <t...@vondein.org> wrote: > You didn't ask, but: if you ever use FreeBSD for a longer time, you'll > never go back to Linux. At least not voluntarily :) Many don't get that the Linux "distros" are often just that, distributions...

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-12 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 02:18:40AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > > Also of note that GNU also has its own kernel, Hurd (microkernel-based), > > which is still under development a couple of decades later. > > So is plan9 and a bunch of other stuff that still hasn't > gone anyware. Oh well. But don't

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-12 Thread grarpamp
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:04 AM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > It is important not to confuse Linux, the kernel, with GNU, the actual I don't. Sure there's bsd-gnuland and linux-bsdland hybrids now too. Yet to a bsd user, the linux kernel is the most visible trackable thing to

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-12 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
lly, there is no requirement that one run only a GNU variant under Linux, the kernel, or that GNU must run only under Linux, the kernel (in fact there is or at least was a port of GNU to the FreeBSD kernel at one time). Also of note that GNU also has its own kernel, Hurd (microkernel-based), wh

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-11 Thread grarpamp
>>> 0 * * * * cd /usr/src && make world > > Looks really promising. Doing something like this automatically on the > Linux Kernel + monkey patching, would probably break in the first try. Open uses continuous integration, they're picky about it. Free spreads the same idea across whatever RELENG_M

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-11 Thread grarpamp
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:28 PM, John Newman <j...@synfin.org> wrote: > Yes I use FreeBSD 10 > it has supported PF > for a long time, which it basically stole from > openbsd (who stole it from Darren Reed). No. Ipfilter (aka: Ipf) is Darren's / Phil's and has been dropped by

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-11 Thread Ben Mezger
nux Kernel + monkey patching, would probably break in the first try. Same goes with the Gentoo port system. On 11/10/16 15:43, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 02:13:28PM -0300, Ben Mezger wrote: >> As I am still trying to understand OpenBSDs core, is there a main reason >> I s

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-11 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 02:13:28PM -0300, Ben Mezger wrote: > As I am still trying to understand OpenBSDs core, is there a main reason > I should check out FreeBSD (except the reasons you pointed out)? In the end you'll need to compare them yourself, features, policies, hardware support, se

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-11 Thread grarpamp
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/ > > crypto signature and downloading the checksums from the same (possibly They're in the release announcement linked in OP. As I've said before, FreeBSD has issues with strong cryptographic provenance, stemming from

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-11 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 01:50:20AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Alternative OS news [not Windows, not Linux]... > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/ Nice to see open source competition :) How do I verify the ISOs from the above plain ftp url, there is no crypto

Re: FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-10 Thread grarpamp
https://www.freebsd.org/ports/

FreeBSD 11.0 Released

2016-10-10 Thread grarpamp
://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/