Bsd Now

We review Meltdown and Spectre responses from various BSD projects, show you how to run CentOS with bhyve, GhostBSD 11.1 is out, and we look at the case against the fork syscall. This episode was brought to you by Headlines More Meltdown Much has been happened this week, but before we get into a status update of the various mitigations on the other BSDs, some important updates: Intel has recalled the microcode update they issued on January 8th. It turns out this update can cause Haswell and Broadwell based systems to randomly reboot, with some frequency. (https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-security-issue-update-addressing-reboot-issues/) AMD has confirmed that its processors are vulnerable to both variants of Spectre, and the the fix for variant #2 will require a forthcoming microcode update, in addition to OS level mitigations (https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution) Fujitsu has provided a status report for most of its products, including SPARC hardware (https://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Pub