FreeBSD and OpenBSD Leftovers
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FreeBSD ☛ January 2025 Laptop Support and Usability Project Update
Work on faster WiFi rates — development of WiFi 4 (802.11n) and WiFi 5 (802.11ac) support is progressing. This will enable modern, faster, WiFi speeds.
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Kernel Space
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Ted Unangst ☛ dude, where are your syscalls?
The OpenBSD kernel is getting to be really old, like really, really old, mid 40s old, and consequently it doesn’t like surprises, so programs have to tell it where their syscalls are. In today’s edition of the polite programmer, we’ll learn the proper etiquette for doing so.
If you program in C, this is all handled automatically for you, so we’ll be exclusively working in totally not C and avoiding linking with libc.
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