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New NetBSD BulkTracker release. Packages that failed to build now include a list of failed dependencies (if any) and packages broken by them (if any).
"Specifically, the NetBSD source tree is periodically analyzed by two separate code scanners to maintain and improve code quality: Coverity - a commercial code scanner, and Brainy - a private code scanner developed by a NetBSD developer.
Several security features are available in NetBSD, including IPsec, a homegrown firewall (NPF), a file integrity system (Veriexec), a kernel authorization framework (kauth(9)), disk encryption (CGD), among others.
In terms of exploit mitigations, NetBSD supports a good number of modern features: W^X (in both userland and the kernel), Userland ASLR, Kernel ASLR, SMEP, SMAP, and a variety of other internal kernel bug detection features. Support for these mitigations sometimes depends on the capabilities of the hardware."
Learn how a busy tech software developer went on "vacation" with only a $100 Pinebook and kept all the plates spinning.
In Brooklyn!
[Performance Branch on GitHub](https://github.com/NetBSDfr/NetBSD-src/tree/perf)
[Precompiled Kernel and Disk Image](https://imil.net/NetBSD/disk.img)
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