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While not receiving a response isn't ideal, I note that we actually have two secteams: secteam@ and ports-secteam@; something like luatex should go to the latter, but their level o…

It's on the FreeBSD Foundation's roadmap: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues/22

Illumos keeps the tradition alive: https://src.illumos.org/source/

fwiw, characterizing Andres as a sysadmin isn't really the whole picture; he's a postgres developer that conducts benchmarking operations with some frequency (and he's quite good a…

To be fair, for the vast majority of FreeBSD users flua is essentially nonexistent; it was pushed off into /usr/libexec and renamed so that it doesn't get used by consumers of base…

We (FreeBSD) should really reconcile our diff against OpenBSD and figure out what of the work I've done downstream makes sense and what doesn't. I'd imagine there's a healthy amoun…

Also worth noting, while we're here, that there is a patch set from a GSoC project to integrate mfsBSD into the project's release(7) tooling: - https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41704 -…

Right, in this case specifically we're running off a limited bootstack allocated in the kernel's .bss (somewhere between 2 to 6 pages, generally); we won't finish initializing VM u…

> [...] But if you use pkg, and the new point release added a syscall, you will have problems installing new packages (or upgrading) once the package builders update; I don't quite…

Yes, this is great... I was given a Macbook with a Norweigan keyboard for testing a port of FreeBSD on it, and I quickly discovered that the keyboard layout remapping stuff availab…

Race conditions in places like this are exceedingly hard to write reliable tests for. It may take one, two boots; dozens, or thousands, or you may just get insanely lucky and whate…

iocage as well... I've been trying to sucker someone into writing a new jail manager in flua, since we have that in base. It hasn't worked yet.

Not sure we have anyone that could really call themselves a maintainer for sed, but I am a FreeBSD committer that has put thought into this problem in the past.

I'd like to change it in FreeBSD, but haven't really (yet) come up with a clever way to make it work without breaking years of scripts that may be using -i.

It depends on how you were running before -- if you had the wireguard-kmod package, then yes, the only difference is that you don't have to install it manually. If you only had the…

Colin's done a lot of work in improving boot time on EC2 and in general, so I'm a little surprised he didn't actually mention the boot time in this article. In 2022Q1 he had boot t…

FWIW, I have no interest in making a similar change to bsdgrep and I can't imagine anyone else would be compelled to bother, either. I just don't see the value in removing these hi…

IMO it was just a relatable example of a somewhat extensive user of netlink that demonstrates compatibility. Some folks may want to run it under the Linuxolator, which seems reason…

minor nit: /usr/local/bin as it comes from ports

I read that as "the hardware is failing but FreeBSD is still trucking right along"

I'd be concerned about the non-zero number of PHP CLI apps that exist in the wild, though.

Right, platform specific. On FreeBSD, we have SO_REUSEPORT_LB for load-balancing.

Only a number of years too late... It's worth noting that as far as changes in FreeBSD forbidding long-standing permitted behavior goes, this one was notably very uncontroversial.