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pfsense - 2.3 alpha snapshots available
pfsense 2.3 Features and ChangesThe entire front end has been re-writtenUpgrade of base OS to FreeBSD 10-STABLEThe PPTP server component has been removed,PBIs have been replaced with pkgPHP upgraded to 5.6The web interface has been converted to Bootstrap***
BSDMag October 2015 out
A Look at the New PC-BSD 10.2 - Kris MooreBasis Of The Lumina Desktop Environment 18 - Ken MooreA Secure Webserver on FreeBSD with Hiawatha - David CarlierDefeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS - Michael DexterEmerging Technology Has Increasingly Been a Force for Both Good andEvil - Rob Somerville
Interviews with: Dru Lavigne, Luca Ferrari, Oleksandr Rybalko***
OpnSense 15.7.14 Released
Another update to OpnSense has landed!Some of the notable takeaways this time are that it isn’t asecurity update
Major rework of the firewall rules sections including, rules,schedules, virtual ip, nat and aliases pages
Latest BIND and Squid packagesImproved configuration management, including fixes to importing an oldconfig file. New location for configuration history / backups.
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OpenBSD in Toyota Highlander
ImagesWhile looking through the ‘Software Information’ screen of a Toyota Highlander, Chad Dougherty of the ACM found a bunch of OpenBSD copyright noticesAt least one of which I recognize as OpenCrypto, because of the comment about “transforms”It is likely that the vehicle is running QNX, which contains various bits of BSDQNX: Third Party License Terms List version 2.17Some highlightsRobert N. M. Watson (FreeBSD)TrustedBSD Project (FreeBSD)NetBSD FoundationNASA Ames Research Center (NetBSD)Damien Miller (OpenBSD)Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD)Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc.Bob Beck (OpenBSD)Christos Zoulas (NetBSD)Markus Friedl (OpenBSD)Henning Brauer (OpenBSD)Network Associates Technology, Inc. (FreeBSD)100s of othersOpenSSH seems to be includedIt also seems to contain tcpdump for some reasonInterview - Adam Leventhal -
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Beastie-Bits
isboot, an iSCSI boot driver for FreeBSD 9 and 10
tame() is now called pledge()
Interview with NetBSD developer Leoardo
Fuguita releases LiveCD based on OpenBSD 5.8
Dtrace toolkit gets an update and imported into NetBSD
An older article about how to do failover / load-balancing in pfsense
Feedback/Questions
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