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FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 Available 26 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
The third RC build for the FreeBSD-9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror si...
pkgng without ports: addenda 24 Aug 2013 | 12:24 am
Two things I forgot to mention in my previous post: In order to use OpenPAM from svn instead of the version that comes with FreeBSD, you need to copy security/pam_mod_misc.h and pam_debug_log.c into ...
Creating pkgng packages without ports 22 Aug 2013 | 11:32 pm
Lately, I’ve been working on expanding the scope of OpenPAM to more than just a PAM library. Specifically, I’ve added support (in a separate library) for the OATH HOTP and TOTP one-time password algor...
New Images Available for Download 21 Aug 2013 | 01:58 am
Kris has announced the availability of the latest PC-BSD images: The latest PC-BSD 9.2-RELEASE images (based upon FreeBSD 9.2-RC1) are now available for download. Users who install this image will be...
The short list: #3 #FreeBSD 20 Aug 2013 | 03:24 am
Sandybridge/Ivybridge/Haswell boxes take upwards of 10 minutes to just GET TO THE BOOT LOADER now. When I want to get a box into single user, and not miss the loader prompt when using FreeBSD: nextb...
Adrian Chadd’s Ramblings 2013-08-19 16:52:00 19 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
This blog post is mostly so I don't forget this kind of stuff. http://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/m/a/d/2/2/e/15529-Intel_VTune_Using.pdf mentions "% execution stalled". This is the core i...
C Ints are Finite Numbers! 17 Aug 2013 | 03:59 pm
In the last few months, we made some changes to math.h (and in C++’s <cmath>) to clean up the isinf(), isnan() and related functions. These are defined by the C and C++ spec for all scalar floating po...
vBSDCon 2013 17 Aug 2013 | 07:33 am
vBSDCon 2013 (http://www.vbsdcon.com/), Dulles Hyatt, Dullas, United States 25 - 27 October, 2013. This exciting weekend will bring together members of the BSD community for a series of roundtable dis...
FreeBSD 9.2-RC2 Available 16 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
The second RC build for the FreeBSD-9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror s...
New funded project: Documentation Project Infrastructure Enhancements 16 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
The Foundation is pleased to announce that Gábor Kövesdán has completed a funded project to improve the infrastructure behind the documentation project. Here is how Gabor describes the project. Ou...