Distributions and Operating Systems: BSD and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 07, 2025

• EasyOS

  • Barry Kauler ☛ Statically-linked sg_vpd utility compiled in OE

    There is an on-going effort to detect if USB SSDs support TRIM. In the initrd, the 'init' script uses 'hdparm' to probe for TRIM support; however, this works for SATA SSD in a USB caddy, but not NVME SSD. There is online information about using the 'sg_vpd' utility, for example: [...]

  • Barry Kauler ☛ Detect NVME SSD in USB caddy support trim

    Code implemented in 'init' script in the initrd: [...]

• BSD

  • Marcin Szewczyk-Wilgan ☛ FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer, real-time

    A complete guide to configuring FreeBSD as an audiophile audio server: setting up system and audio subsystem parameters, real-time operation, bit-perfect signal processing, and the best methods for enabling and parameterising the system graphic equalizer (equalizer) and high-quality audio equalization with FFmpeg filters. Linux users will also find useful information, especially in the context of configuring and personalising the MPD player and filters.

• PCLinuxOS

  • PCLOS Official ☛ PCLinuxOS Recent Updates

• Makulu

  • Makulu Hey Hi (AI) Free Stock Market Analysis Tool !

• SUSE/OpenSUSE

  • pam_pkcs11: Possible Authentication Bypass in Error Situations (CVE-2025-24531)

    This report is about a regression in pam_pkcs11 version 0.6.12. In this release the implementation of pam_sm_authenticate() has been changed to return PAM_IGNORE in many exit paths, which can lead to a complete authentication bypass in some scenarios. This report is based on upstream Git tag “pam_pkcs11-0.6.12”. A bugfix is found in release 0.6.13.

  • Bryan Lunduke ☛ Open Source is Anti-Free Speech

    The first instinct, in almost every Open Source & GNU/Linux organization - From GNOME to Arch, NixOS to openSUSE - is to censor.

• Canonical/Ubuntu Family

  • University of Toronto ☛ How Ubuntu 24.04's bad bpftrace package appears to have happened

    When I wrote about Ubuntu 24.04's completely broken bpftrace '0.20.2-1ubuntu4.2' package (which is now no longer available as an Ubuntu update), I said it was a disturbing mystery how a theoretical 24.04 bpftrace binary was built in such a way that it depended on a shared library that didn't exist in 24.04. Thanks to the discussion in bpftrace bug #2097317, we have somewhat of an answer, which in part shows some of the challenges of building software at scale.