OpenBSD 4.7 has been released!
A look at the release page reveals that this release offers wider platform support, new drivers and improvements over existing ones, filesystem midlayer improvements.
The website of the BSD magazine announces that the BSD Mag is now becoming a free monthly online publication. You can sign up to their newsletter and get every issue straight to your inbox.
Matthew Dillon is interviewed and asked about recent developments in DragonFlyBSD.
Original link: bsdtalk184 - DragonFlyBSD with Matthew Dillon
The ZFS Intent Log ("ZIL") is a mechanism that gathers together in memory transactions of writes, and is flushed onto disk when synchronous semantics is necessary. In the event of crash or power failure, the log is examined and the uncommitted transaction would be replayed to maintain the synchronous semantics …
The ntpd(8) daemon is an implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) used to synchronize the time of a computer system to a reference time source.
Problem description
If ntpd receives a mode 7 (MODE_PRIVATE) request or error response from a source address not listed in either a 'restrict …