Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Bill Sorenson
> I’m not sure what you meant about Linux distros not categorizing fixes, > though — with some notable exceptions, most of the big ones certainly tag > security fixes >separately, which is what allows `unattended-upgrades` on > Debian/Ubuntu based systems (and `yum-cron` on RHEL) to work so nice

Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Bill Sorenson
> Admins attentive to security issues will already be tracking CVEs for > the software they use and mitigating or solving the vulnerability by all > means available. > > By batching updates, FreeBSD is making administrative decisions for > other people's systems. Some folks don't need to worry abo

Re: FreeBSD/powerpc64 (POWER9) with ZFS on /

2018-11-05 Thread Bill Sorenson
\ (oo)\___ > (__)\ )\/\ > ||w | > || || I don't think there are any license issues distributing a FreeBSD kernel with ZFS statically linked like there are with Linux. For a long time it wasn't supported an