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Mailing list ARChives ☛ 'out with a.out'

↺ 'out with a.out'
The following diff moves all the a.out-related defines, but the MID_xxx constants, from <sys/exec.h> to <a.out.h>, and explicitly include the latter instead of the former in code which deals with a.out bit.

Michał Sapka ☛ Modern gaming on FreeBSD, first attempt

↺ Modern gaming on FreeBSD, first attempt
A little update before a bigger update, sometime in the near future, on my Guide to BSD. I am not a gamer, and I have no idea what is going on in Redmond land. But I want to run a few new games, like Baldur 3, Myst remake, or Return to Monkey Island. What I don’t want is to dual-boot. Ergo, what I want is a working wine(1) gaming setup.

Peter Czanik: FreeBSD audit source for syslog-ng

↺ Peter Czanik: FreeBSD audit source for syslog-ng
Two weeks ago, I was at EuroBSDcon and received a feature request for syslog-ng. The user wanted to collect FreeBSD audit logs together with other logs using syslog-ng. Writing a native driver in C is time consuming. However, creating an integration based on the program() source of syslog-ng is not that difficult.

Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ FreeBSD audit source for syslog-ng

↺ FreeBSD audit source for syslog-ng
This blog shows you the current state of the FreeBSD audit source, how it works, and its limitations.

The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD Now 579: EuroBSDcon 2024

↺ BSD Now 579: EuroBSDcon 2024
Jason is on location at EuroBSDcon getting interviews with those in the BSD Community.
Interviews
Vanja Cvelbar
Stefano Marinelli
Dave Cottlehuber
Christos Margiolis
Jason is on location at EuroBSDcon getting interviews with those in the BSD Community.

NetBSD ☛ NetBSD Google Summer of Code 2024 Reports: ALTQ refactoring and NPF integration

↺ NetBSD Google Summer of Code 2024 Reports: ALTQ refactoring and NPF integration
This report was written by Emmanuel Nyarko as part of Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2024.
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