BSD Now

By JT Pennington

2: Engineering and Powder Kegs

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Published September 11, 2013 7:00am

After a wildly successful debut episode, BSD Now is BACK to talk with Glen Barber from the FreeBSD Release team, show you how to build your own binary package repository and discuss the latest BSD news!Headlines64bit time in OpenBSDMany operating systems face an upcoming challenge, similar to (but more complicated than) Y2K: Y2038. All of the BSDs and most other operating systems track time by counting the seconds since Jan 1st, 1970. In 2038 this value will reach the maximum value of a signed 32 bit integer. Simply changing to a 64 bit counter...

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