The timing of security advisories -
It’s an old debate on when to release a security advisory:
It should be released as early as possible to give people a chance to fix, but at the same time the fixing should be in
a coordinated way….
Two new NetBSD Security Advisories: OpenPAM and BIND resolver -
The NetBSD Security Officers have released two new security advisories about problems found in 3rd party software that comes bundled with NetBSD’s base system, OpenPAM and the BIND resolver.
Running NetBSD on the LG-N2R1D NAS-family -
BSDTalk Interview: Jim Brown on BSD Certification - Dru mentioned on Facebook that BSD Talk #209 is out, this time with Jim Brown, one of the key people behind the BSD certification.
BSD Certification covers NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and…
New Developer in December 2011
Doing a network based boot with PXE is not exactly hard,
but you need some debugging and the right tools in place.
If you want to netboot g4u via PXE, there’s a description
on how to do
Netbooting…
I’ve tried to build NetBSD-current at various points in the past few months, and always hit one of two bugs: -current blows up with
a gcc Internal Compiler Error when crossbuilding on Mac OS X,
and…
GSoC 2011 roundup: Add kqueue support to GIO -
As the Google Summer of Code 2011 (GSoC 2011) program concludes, we will be running a series of articles detailing the results of the projects mentored by The NetBSD Foundation.
Today’s turn is…
New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2011-007 LZW decoding loop on manipulated compressed files
Request for project specs to remove the big network lock -
Dear users and developers,
The Board of Directors is interested in improving the performance of the networking subsystem of the NetBSD kernel on multiprocessor machines. To help people interested…