FuryBSD 2020Q2 Images Available, Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux, Ars technica reviews GhostBSD, “TLS Mastery” sponsorships open, BSD community show their various collections, a tale of OpenBSD secure memory allocator internals, learn to stop worrying and love SSDs, and more.
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FuryBSD 2020Q2 Images Available for XFCE and KDE (https://www.furybsd.org/furybsd-2020-q2-images-are-available-for-xfce-and-kde/)
The Q2 2020 images are not a visible leap forward but a functional leap forward. Most effort was spent creating a better out of box experience for automatic Ethernet configuration, working WiFi, webcam, and improved hypervisor support.
Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (https://unixsheikh.com/articles/technical-reasons-to-choose-freebsd-over-linux.html)
Since I wrote my article "Why you should migrate everything from Linux to BSD" I have been wanting to write something about the technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux and while I cannot possibly cover every single reason, I can write about some of the things that I consider worth noting.
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+ Not actually Linux distro review deux: GhostBSD (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/not-actually-linux-distro-review-deux-ghostbsd/)
When I began work on the FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE review last week, it didn't take long to figure out that the desktop portion wasn't going very smoothly.
I think it's important for BSD-curious users to know of easier, gentler alternatives, so I did a little looking around and settled on GhostBSD for a follow-up review.
GhostBSD is based on TrueOS, which itself derives from FreeBSD Stable. It was originally a Canadian distro, but—like most successful distributions—it has transcended its country of origin and can now be considered worldwide. Significant GhostBSD development takes place now in Canada, Italy, Germany, and the United States.
“TLS Mastery” sponsorships open (https://mwl.io/archives/6265)
My next book will be TLS Mastery, all about Transport Layer Encryption, Let’s Encrypt, OCSP, and so on.
This should be a shorter book, more like my DNSSEC or Tarsnap titles, or the first edition of Sudo Mastery. I would like a break from writing doorstops like the SNMP and jails books.
JT (our producer) shared his Open Source Retail Box Collection on twitter this past weekend and there was a nice response from a few in the BSD Community showing their collections:
JT's post: https://twitter.com/q5sys/status/1251194823589138432
High Resolution Image to see the bottom shelf better: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-9QTs2RR/0/f1742096/O/i-9QTs2RR.jpg
Closeup of the BSD Section: https://twitter.com/q5sys/status/1251294290782928897
Others jumped in with their collections:
Deb Goodkin's collection: https://twitter.com/dgoodkin/status/1251294016139743232 & https://twitter.com/dgoodkin/status/1251298125672660992
FreeBSD Frau's FreeBSD Collection: https://twitter.com/freebsdfrau/status/1251290430475350018
Jason Tubnor's OpenBSD Collection: https://twitter.com/Tubsta/status/1251265902214918144
Do you have a nice collection, take a picture and send it in!
Tale of OpenBSD secure memory allocator internals - malloc(3) (https://bsdb0y.github.io/blog/deep-dive-into-the-OpenBSD-malloc-and-friends-internals-part-1.html)
Hi there,
It's been a very long time I haven't written anything after my last OpenBSD blogs, that is,
OpenBSD Kernel Internals — Creation of process from user-space to kernel space.
OpenBSD: Introduction to execpromises in the pledge(2)
pledge(2): OpenBSD's defensive approach to OS Security
So, again I started reading OpenBSD source codes with debugger after reducing my sleep timings and managing to get some time after professional life. This time I have picked one of my favourite item from my wishlist to learn and share, that is, OpenBSD malloc(3), secure allocator
How I learned to stop worrying and love SSDs (https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-ss