Dear FreeBSD Community,

I'm so excited about the response we have received regarding the 
auction. So far, the bidding is up to $345!

I've received some questions and corrections regarding the auction. I 
can't update the eBay page, so I wanted to inform everyone of the 
answers and corrections.

First, in the attributes section, I stated it is the 1st Edition. Well, 
you probably know from the title that it is the 2nd Edition.

Are you hesitating to bid because you live in Italy and our listing 
makes it look like we'll only ship to the US? Well, don't worry, we will 
ship anywhere in the world! Michael Lucas has generously offered to ship 
the book free for us.

The book will be sent once we receive the payment, and after it has been 
printed. This will be around Nov. 11.

MissionFish will send the "winner" a donation receipt. The amount above 
$60 (book value) should be tax-deductible in the US. Don't forget you 
can also donate to the foundation at 
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/.

Thank you to everyone who has made a bid so far.

Sincerely,

Deb Goodkin
The FreeBSD Foundation

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Hi!
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As announced earlier, EuroBSDCon 2008 will be held on 18 and 19 October 200=
8,
in Strasbourg, France.  We are still looking for proposals for presentations
and tutorials.  The submission deadline has been extended to 1 July 2008.

Important dates to remember:

  1 July 2008=20
  Abstracts for papers and tutorials due

  1 August 2008
  Selected speakers notified

  16 October 2008
  First day of tutorials

  18 October 2008
  First day of presentations

Please consider submitting a paper as soon as possible if you would like to
present at EuroBSDCon 2008!

Regards,

 - Philip [for the program committee]

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Philip Paeps                           Calm down ... it is only ones and ze=
ros
philip@freebsd.org

  All things being equal, all things are never equal.

EuroBSDcon 2008: Family Meeting

    The European BSD Conference, October 18-19th 2008, Strasbourg, France


FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X, DragonFlyBSD, PC-BSD, DesktopBSD: Are you
doing interesting things with one of these BSD based operating system?

Anything hot you are working on?  Come to Strasbourg and talk about it!

EuroBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems.  We
are looking for papers about all aspects of BSD based operating systems
especially if you can tell our audience something new about:

    * Products embedding BSD systems
    * Desktop computing with BSD systems
    * BSD based products, how, why, what
    * How you are reworking ports pkgsrc
    * What are the BSD developers working on now
    * Virtualizing BSD based systems
    * Installing BSD system on your coffee machine
    * File systems, networking, security, and general kernel hacking
    * Tools for monitoring, measuring, debugging, and optimizing BSD systems
    * The science and art of open source programming

Extended abstract (two A4 pages) in English, with an outline of your proposed
talk, a few keywords and a bit about yourself should be sent to us by email at
pc@eurobsdcon.org before June 1st 2008.

If you are interested in presenting a tutorial, please let us know.

Practical Information

Speakers attend the conference for free and we will reimburse speakers travel
and lodging if nobody else will pay for it.  We will aim to finalize the
program and notify the selected speakers by July 1st 2008.  All speakers will
be expected to produce a final paper and electronic files for the conference
web site by September 15th, 2008.

We will not waste money and trees on printed proceedings but will distribute
the conference material electronically and expect to receive your final slides
no later than 4 weeks before the conference.  Please let us know if you want
to include other materials (articles, HOWTO etc).  All papers should be
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FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee                                         Security Advisory
                                                          The FreeBSD Project

Topic:          ee temporary file privilege escalation

Category:       core
Module:         ee
Announced:      2006-01-11
Credits:        Christian S.J. Peron
Affects:        All FreeBSD versions
Corrected:      2006-01-11 08:02:16 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.0-STABLE)
                2006-01-11 08:03:18 UTC (RELENG_6_0, 6.0-RELEASE-p2)
                2006-01-11 08:03:55 UTC (RELENG_5, 5.4-STABLE)
                2006-01-11 08:04:33 UTC (RELENG_5_4, 5.4-RELEASE-p9)
                2006-01-11 08:05:54 UTC (RELENG_5_3, 5.3-RELEASE-p24)
                2006-01-11 08:06:47 UTC (RELENG_4, 4.11-STABLE)
                2006-01-11 08:07:18 UTC (RELENG_4_11, 4.11-RELEASE-p14)
                2006-01-11 08:08:08 UTC (RELENG_4_10, 4.10-RELEASE-p20)
CVE Name:       CVE-2006-0055

For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories,
including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the
following sections, please visit
<URL:http://www.freebsd.org/security/>.

I.   Background

The ee utility is a simple screen oriented text editor. This editor is
popular with a lot of users due to its ease of use.

II.  Problem Description

The ispell_op function used by ee(1) while executing spell check
operations employs an insecure method of temporary file generation.
This method produces predictable file names based on the process ID
and fails to confirm which path will be over written with the user.

It should be noted that ispell does not have to be installed in order
for this to be exploited.  The option simply needs to be selected.

III. Impact

These predictable temporary file names are problematic because they
allow an attacker to take advantage of a race condition in order to
execute a ...
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Dear FreeBSD Community,

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce continued funding of the 
network stack virtualization project, made possible by a grant from 
NLNet.  The virtualized network stack will significantly enhance 
FreeBSD's jail functionality, allowing jails to have their own complete 
and locally administered network stacks, including firewalls, routing, 
and IPsec configurations. The Foundation will be sponsoring Bjoern Zeeb, 
a FreeBSD network developer, to enhance the existing prototype, now 
being merged into FreeBSD 8.x, as well as provide code review.

Sincerely,

The FreeBSD Foundation
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Hi,

In three weeks, the BSD masses will be gathering in Ottawa
for the 5th annual BSDCan.  The schedule is phenomenal,
even if I do say so myself.

If you are interested in spreading the word about BSDCan,
and getting your name out there, consider reporting on one
or more of the talks for USENIX.  Rik Farrow tells me that
the summaries will be published in the August 2008 issue of ;login:.

A summary can be as short as a paragraph or so.  It's pretty easy,
and Rik provides past summaries as examples.  If you can type,
you can do a summary.

Sign up here:  http://www.spirit.com/cgi-new/bsdcan08

If you have not made your plans for BSDCan 2008 yet, you better
get started before all the good rooms are gone and you have
to stay off-campus.  :)

-- 
Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/
dan@langille.org




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EuroBSDCon 2007 Call For Papers

The European BSD Conference, September 14 & 15 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark

       FreeBSD - NetBSD - OpenBSD - MAC OS X - DragonFlyBSD


Are you doing interesting things with a BSD based operating system ?

Come to Copenhagen and talk about it!

We are looking for papers about all aspects of BSD based operating
systems, and would particularly like to hear from people who can
tell our audience something about:

    * How and why should you try a BSD based operating system ?

    * BSD based products, how, why, what: good & bad.

    * How to manage BSD based systems, operational issues, scaling,
      updates, patches, auditing and reliability.

    * What are the BSD developers working on now ?

    * Using BSD based systems to thwart the bad guys.

Send us a couple of paragraphs with an outline of your proposed
talk and a bit about yourself to: papers@eurobsdcon.dk before
February 1st 2007.

Practical Information

EuroBSDCon 2007 is organized by the the usual gang from the BSD-DK
user group and our aim is to make it affordable and high quality.

Speakers attend the conference for free and we will reimburse
speakers travel and lodging if nobody else will pay for it.

We will aim to finalize the programme and notify the selected
speakers by April 1st 2007.

We will not waste money and trees on printed procedings but will
distribute the conference material electronically and expect to
receive your final slides no later than 4 weeks before the conference.
Please let us know if you want to include other materials (Articles,
HOWTO etc)

There will also be a "Works In Progress" session during the conference
for short talks about recent developments etc.

If we can arrange it, all talks will be videotaped (unless the
speaker objects).

You can at all times find more info about the conference, travel,
accomodation and more, at the conference website:

	http://2007.euroBSDCon.org/

The conference programm...
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Dear FreeBSD Community,

The FreeBSD Foundation would like to thank everyone who has sent in 
their travel grant application for AsiaBSDCon. We understand that some 
people are just finding out whether their papers have been accepted and 
are having trouble meeting our deadline. We have decided to extend the 
period of time to accept travel grant applications for AsiaBSDCon. The 
new deadline is Friday, Jan. 26. We will not accept any applications 
after this date.

Thank You,

Deb Goodkin
The FreeBSD Foundation

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Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Accepting Travel Grant 
Applications  for AsiaBSDCon
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:52:08 -0700
From: Deb Goodkin <deb@freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org

Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses
to AsiaBSDCon 2007.

The Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel grants to
individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit the Travel
Grant Request Form at www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/ by January
21, to apply for this grant.

Though we would like to support everyone who applies, priority will be
given to FreeBSD developers speaking at the conference. Due to
constrained resources, we would appreciate if developers could look to
their employers first for sponsorship or cost-splitting.

Also, to be considered for the grant, you must provide a detailed
justification for attending this conference in the application. Please
describe, not only your purpose for attending, but how the FreeBSD
community will benefit by you attending this conference.

Please note, the deadline for submitting Travel Grant Request forms is
January 21, 2007. Applications will not be accepted after this date.

Thank You,

The FreeBSD Foundation
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rsync.net is pleased to announce Code Bounties for 2007:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html

Two of the five bounties are for FreeBSD related projects.  Please take
note of the "Vmware 5.5 on FreeBSD" bounty - we encourage you to
contribute.

We are optimistic that once the bounty exceeds a few thousand dollars
someone will indeed take on this project.  Further, we are soliciting help
(and funds) from vmware themselves.

As always, thank you (the community) for all of your work and support.

--rsync.net
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Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses
to EuroBSDCon 2007.

The Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel grants to
individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit the Travel
Grant Request Form at www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/ by July 27, 
2007 to apply for this grant.

Though we would like to support everyone who applies, priority will be 
given to FreeBSD developers speaking at the conference. Due to 
constrained resources, we would appreciate if developers could look to 
their employers first for sponsorship or cost-splitting.

Also, to be considered for the grant, you must provide a detailed 
justification for attending this conference in the application. Please 
describe, not only your purpose for attending, but how the FreeBSD 
community will benefit from you attending this conference.

Please note, the deadline for submitting Travel Grant Request forms is 
July 27, 2007. Applications will not be accepted after this date.

Thank You,

The FreeBSD Foundation
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The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE.  This is the first release from the 7-STABLE branch
which introduces many new features along with many improvements to
functionality present in the earlier branches.  Some of the highlights:

  - Dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability shown by various
    database and other benchmarks, in some cases showing peak performance
    improvements as high as 350% over FreeBSD 6.X under normal loads and
    1500% at high loads.  When compared with the best performing Linux
    kernel (2.6.22 or 2.6.24) performance is 15% better.  Results are from
    benchmarks used to analyze and improve system performance, results with
    your specific work load may vary.  Some of the changes that contribute
    to this improvement are:

	* The 1:1 libthr threading model is now the default.
	* Finer-grained IPC, networking, and scheduler locking.
	* A major focus on optimizing the SMP architecture that was
	  put in place during the 5.x and 6.x branches.

    Some benchmarks show linear scaling up to 8 CPUs.  Many workloads see
    a significant performance improvement with multicore systems.
  - The ULE scheduler is vastly improved, providing improved performance
    and interactive response (the 4BSD scheduler is still the default for
    7.0 but ULE may become the default for 7.1).
  - Experimental support for Sun's ZFS filesystem.
  - gjournal can be used to set up journaled filesystems, gvirstor can
    be used as a virtualized storage provider.
  - Read-only support for the XFS filesystem.
  - The unionfs filesystem has been fixed.
  - iSCSI initiator.
  - TSO and LRO support for some network drivers.
  - Experimental SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) support
    (FreeBSD's being the reference implementation).
  - Much improved wireless (802.11) support.
  - Network link aggregation/trunking (lagg(4)) imported from OpenBSD.
  - JIT compilation to turn BPF into nativ...
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FreeBSD-SA-08:07.amd64                                      Security Advisory
                                                          The FreeBSD Project

Topic:          amd64 swapgs local privilege escalation

Category:       core
Module:         sys_amd64_amd64
Announced:      2008-09-03
Credits:        Nate Eldredge
Affects:        All supported FreeBSD/amd64 versions.
Corrected:      2008-08-21 09:58:18 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.0-STABLE)
                2008-09-03 19:09:47 UTC (RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p4)
                2008-09-03 19:09:47 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.4-PRERELEASE)
                2008-09-03 19:09:47 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p4)
CVE Name:       CVE-2008-3890

For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories,
including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the
following sections, please visit <URL:http://security.FreeBSD.org/>.

I.   Background

FreeBSD/amd64 is commonly used on 64bit systems with AMD and Intel
CPU's.  For Intel CPU's this architecture is known as EM64T or Intel
64.

The gs segment CPU register is used by both user processes and the
kernel to convieniently access state data.  User processes use it to
manage per-thread data, and the kernel uses it to manage per-processor
data.  As the processor enters and leaves the kernel it uses the
'swapgs' instruction to toggle between the kernel and user values for
the gs register.

The kernel stores critical information in its per-processor data
block.  This includes the currently executing process and its
credentials.

As the processor switches between user and kernel level, a number of
checks are performed in order to implement the privilege protection
system.  If the processor detects a problem while attempting to switch
privilege levels it generates a trap - typically general protection
fault (GPF).  In that case, the processor aborts the ret...
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