Juraj Lutter (otis) @otis@bsd.network

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Es lebt! #netbsd 10 auf einem Mac min g4! Nach langem probieren. Endlich.

Happy 50th Birthday, #TCP!

"A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" by Vinton G. Cert and Robert E. Kahn

Published May 1974 in IEEE "Transactions on Communications" and including the definition of 16 bit port numbers, relative sequence numbers, buffering and retransmission based on window size and other flow control.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos561/papers/cerf74.pdf

Via Patrik Fältström on internet-history@lists.isoc.org:
https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/2024-May/009758.html

Version 7.4.2024.01.15-p1 of #FreeBSD #relayd has just been released and is available in the FreeBSD Ports tree:

https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=a66b8f6102fe56d83583db9f4041f3e7fa6c1ba9

One of the interesting changes is fix for a crash that can be triggered by a config reload. The commit message contains a nice write-up:

https://github.com/KlaraSystems/freebsd-relayd/pull/1/commits/cc381fdfa454a9b24c0a061602f2ef25472d06e2

We are working on getting the fix upstreamed to #OpenBSD. Here's the bug report if you want to take a look:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=171288115606488&w=2

#opensource #osdev #CFT #foss

Netflix Case Study

https://freebsdfoundation.org/netflix-case-study/

#FreeBSD #Netflix #RunBSD

@stefano

Netflix: We use FreeBSD to build a streaming platform. We're scaling to insane traffic rates. We're giving talks at every BSD conference about exactly how we do it and upstreaming all of the foundational bits to FreeBSD

Every other streaming provider: Our customers keep complaining that our Linux-based streaming service is slow to start and slow to seek. I wish we knew how Netflix built theirs.

The ZX Spectrum was released 42 years ago.

"The importance of the ZX Spectrum and its role in the early history of personal computing and video gaming has left many to regard it as the most important and influential computer of the 1980s."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum

#ZXSpectrum #computers
#RetroComputing #tech #history #OnThisDay

Just upgraded from PostgreSQL 13 to 15 and the process was so smooth that at first I worried nothing had happened. But turns out PostgreSQL is just that good. Deeply impressed.

I've expanded the #FreeBSD handbook with a section about #zeroconf and #Avahi. (#mDNS, #DNSSD).

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/network-servers/#network-zeroconf

Feedback welcome!

#osdev #foss #opensource

People are afraid of running unaudited `curl | sh`, but nobody bats an eye on 24707 lines of obfuscated garbage in `./configure`.

#xz

https://github.com/grafana/agent/pull/6751

Let's see if we can get Grafana Agent for FreeBSD/arm64

#FreeBSD #Grafana

🌐 Our new #FreeBSD cluster in Chicago is live with two CI servers, package mirrors in the US, and robust admin systems for better global service. A big leap forward in automating and streamlining our operations! Thanks to all involved! 🙌 #opensource

📖 ow.ly/PofR50R3vSP

When a CI system produces inconsistent results ("Some jobs were not successful" yet everything has a green check) it becomes easy to discount anything it reports.

@thindil @parvXtl Little known fact: There are, in fact, only three Linux users left. Everyone else is running FreeBSD, running Linux binaries in the Linuxulator, and not telling anyone that they've switched.

pkg enters stabilization phase for pkg 1.21, the main changes are:
- ECDSA and EdDSA signatures supports
- jobs cancellation (needed for packagekit support)
- drop support for repov1 format
- new data.pkg replacing packagesite.pkg (data.pkg is extensible and set the ground for new metadata provided along with a repository such as the up coming groups)
- all remote repo information are now moved to /var/db/pkg/repos/<reponame> subdirectory

Please test pkg-devel and report bugs