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Heads up! OpenBSD turns 4.8-current

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:08:16 GMT

Contributed by maxime on Thu Aug 12 02:23:13 2010 from the remember-remember-the-first-of-november dept.

Call for testers: ACPI suspend on laptops

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:19:44 GMT

Contributed by maxime on Mon Aug 2 21:19:02 2010 from the labrats dept. Theo de Raadt has called out on the tech@ mailing list for aggressive testing the new ACPI suspend/resume code to be shipped in the upcoming OpenBSD 4.8 release.

[c2k10] The Hackathon BBQ (Part 4) - June 25 - July 3, 2010, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:10:43 GMT

Contributed by mtu on Sun Jul 25 09:29:14 2010 from the beef, beer and baklava dept.

Heads up! OpenBSD turns 4.8-BETA

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:01:42 GMT

Contributed by maxime on Sat Jul 24 20:27:41 2010 from the I2 dept. Theo de Raadt has tagged 4.8-BETA . Snapshots should be available soon for testing, check the mirrors for availability.

[c2k10] Expectations

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:24:32 GMT

Contributed by jcr on Tue Jul 20 17:38:05 2010 from the unmanaged-expectations dept.

BSDCan 2010 Videos

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:42:23 GMT

Contributed by jcr on Fri Jun 4 19:36:26 2010 from the jcr-cant-remember-to-make-witty-departments dept.

mandoc - UNIX Manuals

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:13:45 GMT

Contributed by jcr on Fri Jun 4 08:31:03 2010 from the manly dept. If you've ever opened up a raw man page in a text editor, somewhere in the back of your mind you heard the words of Arthur C. Clarke, "Any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," or the words of Larry Niven, "Any sufficiently advanced magic is ...

Chris Lattner

Tue, 18 May 2010 06:57:55 GMT

Linux 2.6.34 has been released . This version includes the distributed filesystem Ceph and LogFS, a filesystem for flash devices.

E-mail

Sun, 16 May 2010 14:31:34 GMT

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 16th May 2010 12:52 UTC, submitted by mrsteveman1 Mozilla, sticking to its ideals of the open web, decided long ago that support for the patent-encumbered H264 codec would not be included in any of its products.

The New pkg_add For 4.7

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:42:19 GMT

Contributed by jcr on Mon Mar 22 20:23:21 2010 from the new-goodies dept. When you see a CVS commit message like this: List: openbsd-cvs Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: www From: Marc Espie cvs ! openbsd ! org) Date: 2010-03-08 20:43:18 Message-ID: 201003082043.o28KhIWM019271 () cvs ! openbsd ! org Module name: www Modified files: 47.html Log ...

RE[4]: WPA

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:10:04 GMT

Theo de Raadt has lifted the veil off OpenBSD 4.3. "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.3. This is our 23nd release on CD-ROM . We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of more than ten years with only two remote holes in the default install." Boasting as always, but when it's justified, arrogance is a virtue.

RE[2]: Ridiculous BSD claims as usual ...

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:53:23 GMT

As recently reported on OpenBSD's errata page , a problem in the mbuf handling of IPv6 has been elevated to a security issue.

Darwin Ports

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:54:41 GMT

Darwin Ports is an open source tool that will allow you to compile, install and package most of ports from the FreeBSD ports collection.

Darwin ports 0.5

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:44:49 GMT

Darwin Ports is a tiny set of patches that will allow you to use the FreeBSD Ports Collection on the Darwin operating system.

"Sometimes students do really know how to accomplish the

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:24:59 GMT

Rodney Gedda 03 November, 2008 11:42 Comments OpenBSD is a Unix-like operating system with a strong focus on security OpenBSD founder and release manager Theo de Raadt has announced the release and availability of version 4.4 with numerous feature enhancements and bug fixes from the previous release.

RE[4]: He's wrong

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:24:24 GMT

OpenBSD project creator Theo de Raadt detailed his concerns regarding BSD-licensed code and Dual-BSD/GPL-licensed code being re-licensed under only the GPL : "Honestly, I was greatly troubled by the situation, because even people like Alan Cox were giving other Linux developers advice to... Break the law.

OpenBSD: Introduction to a Very Secure and Reliable Operating System

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:08:54 GMT

Many would know Windows, Mac OSX and Ubuntu. However, have you ever heard about OpenBSD? What will you think if you heard someone mentioned OpenBSD? Background OpenBSD is a BSD based operating system, it share similar kernel as FreeBSD.

RE[4]: GPL people mean-spirited

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:39:10 GMT

RE[2]: Good news

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:39:58 GMT

"DesktopBSD 1.6RC3 for AMD64 is now available for download via BitTorrent and from our mirror sites.

AsiaBSDCon 2010 - Call for Papers

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:55:39 GMT

Contributed by jason on Mon Dec 7 13:42:03 2009 from the need-for-information dept.

Bugtraq: Upcoming FreeBSD Security Advisory

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:57:38 GMT

FreeBSD Security Officer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, A short time ago a "local root" exploit was posted to the full-disclosure mailing list; as the name suggests, this allows a local user to execute arbitrary code as root.

Bug In Most Linuxes Can Give Untrusted Users Root

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:05:50 GMT

Red Midnight and other readers brought to our attention a bug in most deployed versions of Linux that could result in untrusted users getting root access.

RE[5]: Who is the GPL zealot to say anything?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:56:42 GMT

Richard Stallman sent a message to OpenBSD-Misc, explaining why he doesn't recommend OpenBSD .

Reliability Fix: kernel NULL pointer dereference in getsockopt

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:56:01 GMT

Contributed by weerd on Wed Oct 28 23:13:20 2009 from the evil-ipsec dept. A bug has been found in the IPsec parts of ip_output.c that can lead to NULL pointer dereference in getsockopt() . On kernels from before 4.4, this could lead to a local privilege escalation on certain architectures.

OpenBSD

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:44:31 GMT

OpenBSD is a free open source operating system based upon the Berkeley Software Distribution for UNIX .

OpenBSD 4.6 release ships new services, eases installation

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:07:18 GMT

Latest version sports a new mail server and an easier installation; core network and routing tools also improved.

FreeBSD Gets Grand Central Dispatch Port

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:21:26 GMT

Not too long ago, Apple open sourced its Grand Central Dispatch library , which aids in developing multithreaded code.

RE: Preaching to the Wrong Choir

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:48:49 GMT

Richard Stallman sent a message to OpenBSD-Misc, explaining why he doesn't recommend OpenBSD .

OpenBSD 4.6 Postponed to November 1

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:24:57 GMT

Contributed by jason on Fri Sep 18 01:43:27 2009 from the more-time-to-preorder dept.

Slackathon 2009

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:06:21 GMT

Contributed by jj on Mon Sep 14 06:48:30 2009 from the openbsd-tube dept. The Slackathon 2009 conference was held at the Stockholm University at the 15th of August, following the Filesystem/VM Hackathon 2009 .

FreeBSD bug grants local root access

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:51:04 GMT

A security researcher has uncovered a security bug in the FreeBSD operating system that allows users with limited privileges to take full control of underlying systems.