Bsd Now

This week on BSD Now, we will be discussing a wide variety of topics including Routers, Run-Controls, the “Rule” of silence and some This episode was brought to you by Headlines Ports no longer build on EOL FreeBSD versions (https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/5ouvmp/ports_no_longer_build_on_eol_freebsd_versions/) The FreeBSD ports tree has been updated to automatically fail if you try to compile ports on EOL versions of FreeBSD (any version of 9.x or earlier, 10.0 - 10.2, or 11 from before 11.0) This is to prevent shooting yourself in the food, as the compatibility code for those older OSes has been removed now that they are no longer supported. If you use pkg, you will also run into problems on old releases. Packages are always built on the oldest supported release in a branch. Until recently, this meant packages for 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 were compiled on 10.1. Now that 10.1 and 10.2 are EOL, packages for 10.x are compiled on 10.3. This matters because 10.3 supports the new openat() and various other