FreeBSD News and Other BSDs

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 22, 2022

• Keeping FreeBSD Secure: Learn the Whys and Hows with the FreeBSD Sec Team | FreeBSD Foundation

  We all know the scene. The room is dark, with the only light provided by the laptop screen. The hooded figure is typing furiously at the keyboard. Suddenly, lines of symbols, letters, and numbers fly into the terminal window as the nefarious character smiles brightly. They. are. in.

  But not so fast! The dogged security team has been planning for this. Protocols are in place. The breach is secured; the sinister hacker is captured; and of course, the world is saved. Ah, MovieOS. Don’t you just love it?

  Now we all know in the real world, trying to keep any type of technology secure is nearly a herculean task. Strengthening security for the FreeBSD Operating System is no different. But we wanted to know more about exactly what the FreeBSD Security Team does and why they do it. So, we sat down with Gordon Tetlow, a volunteer FreeBSD Security Officer, and Ed Maste, Deputy Security Officer, and Mark Johnston, a FreeBSD security team member. The latter two are sponsored by FreeBSD Foundation and support the security team in both ongoing operational aspects of the team’s work, and proactive development.

• New How-to Guide: Binary Package Management on FreeBSD | FreeBSD Foundation

  If you haven’t used packages for software management in a while, it might be time to give them a try again! Since the introduction of the pkg management tool, binary package management has become incredibly simple and fast on FreeBSD. Binary packages are pre-compiled and require no in-depth understanding of compiling software on FreeBSD, making them the ideal method to install software for new users.

• SEMIBUG: NetBSD and Security, tonight - DragonFly BSD Digest

  SEMIBUG is hosting a presentation by David Maxwell on security and NetBSD, tonight. It’s hosted online so if you can read this, you can attend.

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