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I recently spent some time learning Nix after watching this talk by Xe. Nix is a package manager/build system for Linux and macOS. It does a number of things I really like: Transparent handling of source and binary packages. Includes a rich central package registry, but you can host your package descriptions or binaries anywhere. Does not require root and runs alongside any Linux distribution. Easy to pin or customize versions of individual packages. Straightforward support for project-specific dependenc...
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A workaround for installing GitHub-hosted package in a IPv6-only host
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Learning about Linux rootkits is a great way to learn more about how the kernel works. What's great about it is that, unless you really understand what the kernel is doing, your rootkit is unlikely to work, so it serves as a fantasic verifier. In the FreeBSD world, you can find Joseph Kong's amazing book Designing BSD Rootkits. It was written in 2009, so is actually pretty outdated - which means that you have to do quite a bit of research to get the sample progras to work on modern FreeBSD.
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