Here’s another sign that there’s really no difference between the mindsets of Microsoft and those churning out Linux distros . The latest abortion is Ubuntu’s decision to enable Compiz by default. Why do I have a problem with this? Because it means users will have to weigh their options between OS upgrades and hardware upgrades.
The [...]
My transition to FreeBSD is now complete. I’ll continue to post to this blog, particularly about open source issues, security, etc.
I’ve been using OpenBSD for servers for several years, and I’ve flirted around with it, FreeBSD, and NetBSD on desktops. I settled instead on Linux for desktop use because Linux development was (and still is) much more dynamic. What mattered when I settled on Linux applies less to me now because I’m not living on [...]
Justin Gibbs, founder and vice president of the FreeBSD Foundation, writes in the FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter about the GPLv3 issue. He points out that there’s a very unfortunate assumption in the general population (and among authors of some projects) that open source and GPL mean the same thing. He also mentions a chief concern of [...]
This kind of situation is becoming too common: guy takes BSD code, makes a few changes, removes BSD license and copyright information, inserts GPL license information. In this case, it’s over a submitted but not yet included slightly modified OpenBSD Atheros driver for the Linux kernel. The problem isn’t the modification but the way the [...]
I wrote about my new blog last week but I’ve been too busy to make posts there or here to keep up with the changes as I migrate from Linux to BSD full-scale. I seem to be settling on NetBSD but I still may end up using OpenBSD. NetBSD offers ports for all the hardware [...]
I’ve added another blog to separate my Linux and BSD entries since it looks like the latter will play an increasingly larger role in my life.
Light Blue Touchpaper » USENIX WOOT07, Exploiting Concurrency Vulnerabilities in System Call Wrappers, and the Evil Genius:
Sysjail has been withdrawn, and they recommend against using it. From their site:
Due to handling semantics of user/kernel memory in concurrent environments, the sysjail tools, in inheriting from systrace, are vulnerable to exploitation. Details available here [first [...]
I decided to install Minix 3 on one of my older hard drives this afternoon. The thing has been churning away as the 16x CDROM fills up whatever space is actually usable on the hard drive. A note about that briefly.
First, let me explain that the process is painlessly smooth. The CD is bootable, but [...]
My previous entry about Theo de Raadt’s comments on the level of severity of bugs in Intel’s Core 2 processors needs a little update. Linus Torvalds brushes off the alarm and says it’s nothing new. Matt Dillon of Dragonfly BSD isn’t as nonplussed as Torvalds by the errata disclosure in his quick run through of [...]
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