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Submission + - CloudFlare WARP (finally) released (cloudflare.com) 1

Submitted by tearmeapart on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:22AM

tearmeapart writes: CloudFlare is opening WARP and WARP Plus to the general public. WARP is a mobile app for Android and Apple to establish a VPN* to CloudFlare's huge global network. They are promising:
1. No user-identifiable log data to disk;
2. No selling browsing data;
3. No need to provide any personal information
4. Regularly get audited.

Submission + - FreeBSD 9.1 released (freebsd.org)

Submitted by

tearmeapart

on Sunday December 30, 2012 @03:04PM

tearmeapart writes: "The teams at FreeBSD have reached another great achievement with FreeBSD 9.1, with improvements to the already fantastic zfs features, more VM improvements (helping bringing FreeBSD to the next generation of VMs), and improvements in speed to many parts of the network system.
Support FreeBSD via the FreeBSD mall or download/upgrade Freebsd from a mirror. Unforunately, the torrent server is still down due to the previous security incident."

Submission + - Major OpenSSL security issue found (and fixed within hours) (openssl.org)

Submitted by

tearmeapart

on Thursday April 19, 2012 @08:33AM

tearmeapart writes: "A major security issue has been found in all OpenSSL packages. You probably want to download your preferred OpenSSL package as soon as possible.
Changes to the CVS repository are detailed on the OpenSSL timeline."

Submission + - What's keeping you on Windows? (slashdot.org) 11

Submitted by

tearmeapart

on Thursday November 10, 2011 @01:55PM

tearmeapart writes: "It may be time again for another discussion/flamewar on the reasons why a lot of us are (still) using Microsoft. The last big discussion on Slashdot was close to 10 years ago, and a lot has changed since then:

Windows XP and 7 have proven to be stable (and memories of Windows ME are mostly gone)

There are many more distributions for Linux, esepecially commercial options

Distributions like Ubuntu and CentOS have made GNU/Linux more friendly

Options for word processing, spreadsheets, etc. have grown

Apple and their products have changed considerably. However, their philosophy has not seemed to changed.

Microsoft Silverlight came and is on the way out.

Wine and solutions like Transgaming have matured.

However, many things have not changed, like the Microsoft FUD war, the BSDs' installation UI, and the sky is the limit for Linux (except when it comes to the year of the Linux desktop).

So... why are a lot of us still using Windows? What would it take for us to switch?"

Submission + - OpenBSD 5.0 (openbsd.org)

Submitted by

tearmeapart

on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @11:02AM

tearmeapart writes: "A new version of the operating system that most of us would love to love, but probably hardly ever directly use, has been released. As scheduled, release 5.0 brings support for more hardware, network improvements, and OpenSSH 5.9.
The links: changelog, download, main 5.0 page, and order your OpenBSD products!"

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