Sunday, March 02, 2008 at 04:06 AM

GNU is killing Solaris

I can’t think of single piece (package?) of software I use, admire, and depend on more than GNU Coreutils. Maybe Firefox. Maybe OpenSSH. Some days rsync(1).

freebsd.org / Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 02:02 AM

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Announcement

I thought I had a few more months. Dammit. This is going to be a huge time-sink.

undeadly.org / Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 02:11 AM

Chroot in OpenSSH

“… adds a chroot(2) facility to sshd, controlled by a new sshd_config(5) option ‘ChrootDirectory’. This can be used to ‘jail’ users into a limited view of the filesystem, such as their home directory …”

macdevcenter.com / Sunday, May 06, 2007 at 12:36 AM

Exploring the Mac OS X Firewall [macdevcenter.com]

Awesome look at using advanced features of ipfw(8) on OS X.

ivoras.sharanet.org / Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 06:57 PM

What's cooking for FreeBSD 7?

Lots of stuff from Sun (ZFS, dtrace), Linuxulator translates Linux syscalls to BSD syscalls with not performance penalty, lots of performance enhancements to the network stack from the card up, and a new malloc.

www-128.ibm.com / Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 12:39 PM

UNIX productivity tips

Best UNIX productivity article I've read in a long while.

forbes.com / Friday, June 17, 2005 at 10:03 AM

Is Linux For Losers?

Worse is better.

darwinports.org / Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 01:15 PM

DarwinPorts Guide

Alright, it looks like I'm going to have to break down and learn how to package ports since none of this crap is working on Tiger.

os.newsforge.com / Monday, June 13, 2005 at 05:38 PM

Linus compares Linux and BSDs

“Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens)”