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NetBSD 7.0 Available

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday October 11 2015, @09:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the sounds-like-an-improvement dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The NetBSD Project has announced the release of version 7 of the operating system, which is known for its portability.

Acceleration, with a direct rendering manager (DRM) and kernel mode-setting (KMS), is now available on recent Intel and Radeon graphics chips.

The new version ships with a daemon, blacklistd, which can block unwanted network connections.

The installer now supports GPT-partitioned disks.

ARM multiprocessing is now possible, and several ARM-based single board computers are now supported.

NetBSD now has an experimental port to certain Psion PDAs.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by cnst on Sunday October 11 2015, @10:14PM

    by cnst (4275) on Sunday October 11 2015, @10:14PM (#248172)
    First line of blacklistd manual:

    blacklistd is a daemon similar to syslogd(8) that listens to a sockets at paths specified in the sockpathsfile for notifications from other daemons about successful or failed connection attempts.

    What's "a sockets at paths specified"?

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 11 2015, @11:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 11 2015, @11:27PM (#248195)

    /var/nsa/inconspicuous-socket

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by coolgopher on Monday October 12 2015, @01:17AM

    by coolgopher (1157) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 12 2015, @01:17AM (#248235)

    Ignoring the extraneous "a", I'd assume the answer is that it's one or more regular unix domain socket (AF_UNIX). See unix(7).

  • (Score: 2) by joshuajon on Monday October 12 2015, @06:44PM

    by joshuajon (807) on Monday October 12 2015, @06:44PM (#248557)

    I think the other poster was correct about what the referenced paths file is. This sounds very much like a generic implementation of something like Fail2Ban [fail2ban.org]. In fact the rest of the man page describes what it does pretty clearly I think.