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PC-BSD security update (devfs) |
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 |
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A security update for PC-BSD 7.1.1 has been released today. This update fixes a potential privilege escalation attack with
devfs / vfs in the default kernel.
This security update effects users of both i386 and amd64 versions of PC-BSD.
To install the update, simply log into your desktop, and run:
Start -> System Settings -> Software & Updates -> Run in Administrator Mode
Once the Online Update Manager is running, select the "Security update - devfs" patch, and click "Install selected updates". After the update has finished downloading / installing, you will need to reboot the system to complete the process.
For more details about the specifics of this vulnerability, please refer to FreeBSD SA 09-14.devfs. |
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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 |
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A small update to the PBI Builder software, version 2.4, has been released today. This version adds a few new variables to the module creation process, which allows developers to pick "target" ports they wish to have autopopulated and added to the resulting PBI file. For full details, please take a look at the changelog, and the wiki page. |
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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 |
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Version 2.3 of the PBI Builder software has been released for FreeBSD 7.x / PC-BSD 7.x. This update adds functionality to specify the version of FreeBSD you wish a target port to be compiled under. Also updated is the PBI Auto-Populate feature, which copies port files into the respective PBI automatically. For more details please refer to the changelog and wiki. |
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Monday, 09 March 2009 |
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The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the
immediate availability of PC-BSD 7.1.1 Version 7.1.1 contains a number of bugfixes and improvements from PC-BSD 7.1, including KDE 4.2.4, improvements to printing support, Xorg Server 1.6.1, and much more.
For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Users who wish to upgrade from PC-BSD 7.0.x / 7.1 are able to do so via the upgrade / repair option during the installation.
Version 7.1.1 of PC-BSD for i386 and amd64 based platforms is available for download from our mirrors, for purchase from The FreeBSD Mall, as well as via torrent from www.gotbsd.net.
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PC-BSD T-Shirts available! |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
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(Update: 7-2-09)
In addition to the fine wearable merchandise, the FreeBSD Mall has just reduced its prices on print copies of the BSD Magazine
. This magazine has provided great information and articles on PC-BSD,
as well as the rest of the BSD family. If you want to keep up to date
with the BSD community, and expand your knowledge at the same time, you
may wish to subscribe as well. ------
At various BSD-related conferences around the world we've been offering the very popular PC-BSD Galileo T-Shirts. Now these shirts are available to you as well from the good folks over at FreeBSD Mall !
While you are over there, feel free to browse the other fine BSD related merchandise! The FreeBSD Mall even offers FreeBSD & PC-BSD subscriptions, so you can ensure you always get copies of the most recent releases.
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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 |
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Version 2.2 of the PBI Builder software has been released! This version greatly improves the reliability of building PBI files from a target application in the FreeBSD ports tree. This version has also been made easier to perform the initial setup, and port updating has been improved by using portsnap automatically.
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