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5/9 FreeBSD 5.4 Released
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/announce.html
\_ uh, who use FreeBSD nowadays?
\_ uh, you?
\_ Me, Soda, GTA, F5, M0n0wall, oodles of hosting providers, loads
of security/network box providers, etc, etc etc. Now go
away. -John
\_ John, did you switch from OpenBSD to FreeBSD? I've been
using OpenBSD for my home firewall for sometime, but
I've been thinking about switching as well b/c pf is
now part of FreeBSD. Is there anything that I should
be aware of in terms of FreeBSD patching/security in
comparison to OpenBSD? tia
\_ I just really like ports and cvsup; I got sick of OpenBSD
trying to be too secure and of plowing through piles of
docs to find what it had turned off today. I have a
WRAP from pcengines.ch running M0n0wall (http://www.m0n0.ch/wall
and it's teh whoopass. -John |
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| www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/announce.html FreeBSD 54-RELEASE Announcement The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce the availability of Fre eBSD 54-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD Stable development b ranch. Since FreeBSD 53-RELEASE in November 2004 we have made many impr ovements in functionality, stability, performance, and device driver sup port for some hardware, as well as dealt with known security issues and made many bugfixes. html Dedication The FreeBSD 54 Release is dedicated to the memory of Cameron Grant. Came ron was an active FreeBSD Developer and principal architect of the sound driver subsystem despite his physical handicap. His is a superb example of human spirit dominating over adversity. Availability FreeBSD 54-RELEASE supports the i386, amd64, ia64, pc98, sparc64, and al pha architectures and can be installed directly over the net, using boot able media, or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for all a rchitectures except alpha are available now. The distribution for alpha should become available within the next day or two. Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media from o ne of our supporting vendors. The following companies will be offering F reeBSD 54 based products: * FreeBSD Mall, Inc. html If you can not afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to us e it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images. We can not promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images. At the time of this announcement they are available from the fol lowing sites. MD5 checksums for the release images are included at the b ottom of this message. Bittorrent As with the 53 release we are experimenting with Bittorrent. org/pub/FreeBSD/ FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the foll owing countries and territories: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Franc e, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Ita ly, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, P ortugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slov enia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and the United States. org/pub/FreeBSD Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on. |
| www.m0n0.ch/wall -> www.m0n0.ch/wall/ License Last update: 11/11/2004 Current version: 111 Latest beta version: 12b2 m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall sof tware package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software). m0n0wall is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a web se rver, PHP and a few other utilities. The entire system configuration is stored in one single XML text file to keep things transparent. m0n0wall is probably the first UNIX system that has its boot-time configu ration done with PHP, rather than the usual shell scripts, and that has the entire system configuration stored in XML format. Security update for m0n0wall 11 m0n0wall 111, which fixes a security hole in the DynDNS client (ez-ipupd ate), has just been released. If you use the DynDNS client in m0n0wall, you're strongly urged to upgrade as soon as possible. Article about m0n0wall in French magazine Login: Thanks to Vincent Fleuranceau, an article with detailed instructions on h ow to set up m0n0wall for beginners has been published in the French mag azine Login:! |