Bsd Now

This time on the show, we'll be talking with Pascal Stumpf about static PIE in the upcoming OpenBSD release. He'll tell us what types of attacks it prevents, and why it's such a big deal. We've also got answers to questions from you in the audience and all this week's news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Solaris' networking future is with OpenBSD (http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2015/04/solaris-admins-for-glimpse-of-your.html) A curious patch from someone with an Oracle email address was recently sent in (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=142822852613581&w=2) to one of the OpenBSD mailing lists It was revealed that future releases of Solaris are going to drop their IPFilter firewall entirely, in favor of a port of the current version of PF For anyone unfamiliar with the history of PF, it was actually made as a replacement for IPFilter in OpenBSD, due to some licensing issues What's more, Solaris was the original development platform for IPFilter, so the fact th