An anonymous reader writes "DragonFly BSD 2.0 has been released! It includes HAMMER, DragonFly's brand-new file system supporting advanced features like history, snapshots and various other cool things. Will it become the new ZFS? Since it is BSD licensed it could also be integrated into various oth...

Brad Smith (brad@) has committed the security fix, on behalf of Damien Miller (djm@), for the much-publicized DNS vulnerability (CVE-2008-1447). Patches are available for OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3 -stable. Continue reading for the commit messages... Read more... ...

How To Create A Cluster Testbed Using CentOS 5 Virtualization And iSCSI This guide attempts to provide a Xen based test environment where you can practice setting up a two node cluster (cluster setup itself is not discussed here - I'm merely giving you what you need to set it up). Read more... ...

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There are 8 new ports for the week of July 14 to July 20: graphics: rawstudio www: p5-Catalyst-Plugin-Cache-FileCache www: p5-Catalyst-Plugin-PageCache x11: bgs net: haproxy mail: p5-Mail-IMAPTalk net: rtg net: dnstop Some ports had updates that users should be aware of. Read mo...

Damien Miller (djm@) has announced the release of OpenSSH 5.1. Continue below for the full announcement in glorious blockquoted goodness. Read more... ...

Marco Peereboom sent an important update about his work on softraid(4) to the tech mailinglist. Because further changes are needed to the metadata format of this driver Marco is asking that you be patient and wait another couple of days before recreating your softraid array so that another couple ...

How To Block WebPages Based On Keywords Or Phrases With SafeSquid Proxy Server Keyword Filtering allows you to block web pages, depending on the words and phrases found in the page's title, meta tags and body. Keyword filtering in SafeSquid uses a 'weighed keyword scoring' method. It analyzes web ...

How To Install Django On Debian Etch (Apache2/mod_python) This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Debian Etch server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this gu...