Unix is 50, Hunting down Ken's PDP-7, OpenBSD and OPNSense have new releases, Clarification on what GhostBSD is, sshuttle - VPN over SSH, and more.
Headlines
Unix is 50 (https://www.bell-labs.com/unix50/)
In the summer of 1969 computer scientists Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created the first implementation of Unix with the goal of designing an elegant and economical operating system for a little-used PDP-7 minicomputer at Bell Labs. That modest project, however, would have a far-reaching legacy. Unix made large-scale networking of diverse computing systems — and the Internet — practical. The Unix team went on to develop the C language, which brought an unprecedented combination of efficiency and expressiveness to programming. Both made computing more "portable". Today, Linux, the most popular descendent of Unix, powers the vast majority of servers, and elements of Unix and Linux are found in most mobile devices. Meanwhile C++ remains one of the most widely used programming languages today. Unix may be a half-century old but its influence is only growing.
Hunting down Ken's PDP-7: video footage found (https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2019/10/video-footage-of-first-pdp-7-to-run-unix.html)
In my prior blog post, I traced Ken's scrounged PDP-7 to SN 34. In this post I'll show that we have actual video footage of that PDP-7 due to an old film from Bell Labs. this gives us almost a minute of footage of the PDP-7 Ken later used to create Unix.
News Roundup
OpenBSD 6.6 Released (https://openbsd.org/66.html)
Announce: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=157132024225971&w=2
Upgrade Guide: https://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade66.html
Changelog: https://openbsd.org/plus66.html
OPNsense 19.7.5 released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-19-7-5-released/)
Hello friends and followers, Lots of plugin and ports updates this time with a few minor improvements in all core areas. Behind the scenes we are starting to migrate the base system to version
12.1 which is supposed to hit the next 20.1 release. Stay tuned for more infos in the next month or so.
Here are the full patch notes:
+ system: show all swap partitions in system information widget
+ system: flatten services_get() in preparation for removal
+ system: pin Syslog-ng version to specific package name
+ system: fix LDAP/StartTLS with user import page
+ system: fix a PHP warning on authentication server page
+ system: replace most subprocess.call use
+ interfaces: fix devd handling of carp devices (contributed by stumbaumr)
+ firewall: improve firewall rules inline toggles
+ firewall: only allow TCP flags on TCP protocol
+ firewall: simplify help text for direction setting
+ firewall: make protocol log summary case insensitive
+ reporting: ignore malformed flow records
+ captive portal: fix type mismatch for timeout read
+ dhcp: add note for static lease limitation with lease registration (contributed by Northguy)
+ ipsec: add margintime and rekeyfuzz options
+ ipsec: clear $dpdline correctly if not set
+ ui: fix tokenizer reorder on multiple saves
+ plugins: os-acme-client 1.26[1]
+ plugins: os-bind will reload bind on record change (contributed by blablup)
+ plugins: os-etpro-telemetry minor subprocess.call replacement
+ plugins: os-freeradius 1.9.4[2]
+ plugins: os-frr 1.12[3]
+ plugins: os-haproxy 2.19[4]
+ plugins: os-mailtrail 1.2[5]
+ plugins: os-postfix 1.11[6]
+ plugins: os-rspamd 1.8[7]
+ plugins: os-sunnyvalley LibreSSL support (contributed by Sunny Valley Networks)
+ plugins: os-telegraf 1.7.6[8]
+ plugins: os-theme-cicada 1.21 (contributed by Team Rebellion)
+ plugins: os-theme-tukan 1.21 (contributed by Team Rebellion)
+ plugins: os-tinc minor subprocess.call replacement
+ plugins: os-tor 1.8 adds dormant mode disable option (contributed by Fabian Franz)
+ plugins: os-virtualbox 1.0 (contributed by andrewhotlab)
Dealing with the misunderstandings of what is GhostBSD (http://ghostbsd.org/node/194)
Since the release of 19.09, I have seen a lot of misunderstandings on what is GhostBSD a