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The FreeBSD Foundation announced pleasently the new funded FreeBSD HAST project.
The software will be a file system and software independant synchronous replication which operates on the block-level in a cluster environment. It works over TCP/IP and can use any GEOM providers. Pawel Dawidek has been awarded to implent …
The FreeBSD Quaterly Status Report for April-September 2009 is now online. It's always worth to have a look at it. For example there's a working port of Grand Central Dispatch, which Apple has released the source code for a few weeks ago. Or there is the libprocstat(3) project which …
FreeBSD published a security advisory FreeBSD-EN-09:05.null due to a security vulnerability in the FreeBSD kernel. A malicious process that has mapped code or data at address 0 may be able to execute arbitary code with kernel privileges when invoking a NULL pointer.
This is an issue that was …
The new version brings ULE as the default scheduler, DTrace inside the kernel framework, booting from USB devices, improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client, a new cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command that brings an API for thread to CPU binding and last but not least DVD-sized media …
The long awaited FreeBSD 7.0 Release is out. Some highlights include:
