MidnightBSD
MidnightBSD è un sistema operativo che deriva da FreeBSD (in origine è stato un fork di FreeBSD 6.1 beta). L’obiettivo principale del progetto è di creare un sistema desktop semplice da usare.
Versione 0.5
Questa versione contiene (in Inglese):
Security
- Fixed a security issue with TCP SYN packet processing that could result in a denial of service attack.
- Fixed a bug with clearenv(3) that could result in a segfault
- Several OpenSSL security issues were addressed in this release including [CVE-2014-3506], [CVE-2014-3507], [CVE-2014-3508] and [CVE-2014-3510]
- Fix a vulnerability in the control message API. A buffer is not properly cleared before sharing with userland.
- Sendmail failed to properly set close-on-exec for open file descriptors.
- ktrace page fault kernel trace entries were set to an incorrect size which resulted in a leak of information.
- Fix a TCP reassembly bug that could result in a DOS attack
- bsnmpd contains a stack overflow when sent certain queries.
Enhancements
- Jails now run shutdown scripts.
- Support for username with length 32. Previous limit was 16
- Imported FreeBSD 9.2 usb stack (plus z87 patches from stable)
- Updated em(4), igb(4) and ixgbe(4)
- MidnightBSD now works with Z87 Intel chipsets.
- rarpd supports vlan(4) and has a pid flag. (from FreeBSD)
- Support for 65,536 routing tables was added. (up from 16)
- Added subversion to base (as svnlite)
- virtio(4) imported from FreeBSD 9-stable. SCSI support not included
Removed Features
- Sparc64 platform support
- Remove (BIND) named from base. We still include the client utilities for now until replacements are found.
New Software Versions
- File 5.19
- MKSH R50
- less v458
- Perl 5.18.2
- Sendmail 8.14.7 (plus AAAA record patch)
- Subversion 1.8.1
- zlib 1.2.7
Risorse
La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:
- 64 bit: http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/MidnightBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/0.5/MidnightBSD-release.iso
Il sito web della distribuzione è: http://www.midnightbsd.org/
Conclusioni
KDE è stato rimosso dai repositori perchè al momento manca di un mantainer
4 Ottobre 2014
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