NetBSD release and more.
Releases
NetBSD 9.4 available: It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons since the release of NetBSD 9.3 in August 2022, as well some enhancements backported from the development branch. It is fully compatible with NetBSD 9.0. Users running 9.3 or an earlier release are strongly recommended to upgrade.
BSDSec
No security announcements.
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News
Valuable News – 2024/04/22: The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems.
FreeBSD Foundation Delivers V1 of FreeBSD SSDF Attestation to Support Cybersecurity Compliance: The SSDF is a key resource for entities working with the US Government, facilitating compliance with NIST SP 800-218 Section 4e as recommended by the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in consultation with the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This initiative aligns with the goals of Executive Order 14028, issued by the Biden Administration in May of 2021, and Memorandum M-22-18, issued in September of 2022, aimed at enhancing national cybersecurity.
BSD Now 555: Poudriereing Apple Silicon: Kubernetes and back - Why I don’t run distributed systems, NetApp’s strategic contributions to FreeBSD: a deep dive into upstreaming efforts, Make your own E-Mail server - Part 2 - Adding Webmail and More with Nextcloud, Poudriere on Apple Silicon, One less Un*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC, and more.
In OpenBSD -current, default write format for tar(1) has changed: A series of commits by Jeremie Courreges-Anglas (jca@) has modified tar(1) such that its default write format (for archives) is that of pax(1).
iXsystems: No one is being ‘marooned’ by Debian focus: Continuation of news regarding iX focusing more on Linux and less on BSD, addressing some of the concerns of BSD users.
Valuable News – 2024/04/15: The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems.
Tutorials
FreeBSD: installing and using Haskell: Youtube video tutorial showing how to install Haskell, setup VIM to use the Haskell Language Server and finally, write a simple program, compile it and run.
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