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| Heads up! OpenBSD turns 4.8-BETA 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. www.topix.net | 7/25/10 8:01 AM [c2k10] Expectations Contributed by jcr on Tue Jul 20 17:38:05 2010 from the unmanaged-expectations dept. www.topix.net | 7/21/10 3:24 PM BSDCan 2010 Videos Contributed by jcr on Fri Jun 4 19:36:26 2010 from the jcr-cant-remember-to-make-witty-departments dept. www.topix.net | 6/5/10 12:42 AM mandoc - UNIX Manuals 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 ... www.topix.net | 6/4/10 10:13 AM Chris Lattner Linux 2.6.34 has been released . This version includes the distributed filesystem Ceph and LogFS, a filesystem for flash devices. www.topix.net | 5/18/10 7:57 AM E-mail 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. www.topix.net | 5/16/10 3:31 PM The New pkg_add For 4.7 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 ... www.topix.net | 3/23/10 3:42 PM RE[4]: WPA 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. www.topix.net | 2/5/10 8:10 PM RE[2]: Ridiculous BSD claims as usual ... As recently reported on OpenBSD's errata page , a problem in the mbuf handling of IPv6 has been elevated to a security issue. www.topix.net | 2/3/10 7:53 PM Darwin Ports Darwin Ports is an open source tool that will allow you to compile, install and package most of ports from the FreeBSD ports collection. www.topix.net | 1/16/10 9:54 PM Darwin ports 0.5 Darwin Ports is a tiny set of patches that will allow you to use the FreeBSD Ports Collection on the Darwin operating system. www.topix.net | 1/15/10 9:44 PM "Sometimes students do really know how to accomplish the 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. www.topix.net | 1/13/10 9:24 PM RE[4]: He's wrong 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. www.topix.net | 12/26/09 5:24 PM OpenBSD: Introduction to a Very Secure and Reliable Operating System 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. www.topix.net | 12/24/09 1:08 PM RE[4]: GPL people mean-spirited 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. www.topix.net | 12/19/09 2:39 AM RE[2]: Good news "DesktopBSD 1.6RC3 for AMD64 is now available for download via BitTorrent and from our mirror sites. www.topix.net | 12/9/09 11:39 PM AsiaBSDCon 2010 - Call for Papers Contributed by jason on Mon Dec 7 13:42:03 2009 from the need-for-information dept. www.topix.net | 12/7/09 5:55 PM Bugtraq: Upcoming FreeBSD Security Advisory 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. www.topix.net | 12/1/09 8:57 PM Bug In Most Linuxes Can Give Untrusted Users Root 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. www.topix.net | 11/6/09 5:05 PM RE[5]: Who is the GPL zealot to say anything? Richard Stallman sent a message to OpenBSD-Misc, explaining why he doesn't recommend OpenBSD . www.topix.net | 11/4/09 4:56 PM Reliability Fix: kernel NULL pointer dereference in getsockopt 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. www.topix.net | 10/28/09 11:56 PM OpenBSD OpenBSD is a free open source operating system based upon the Berkeley Software Distribution for UNIX . www.topix.net | 10/28/09 8:44 AM OpenBSD 4.6 release ships new services, eases installation Latest version sports a new mail server and an easier installation; core network and routing tools also improved. www.topix.net | 10/19/09 10:07 AM FreeBSD Gets Grand Central Dispatch Port Not too long ago, Apple open sourced its Grand Central Dispatch library , which aids in developing multithreaded code. www.topix.net | 10/14/09 5:21 PM RE: Preaching to the Wrong Choir Richard Stallman sent a message to OpenBSD-Misc, explaining why he doesn't recommend OpenBSD . www.topix.net | 9/22/09 12:48 PM OpenBSD 4.6 Postponed to November 1 Contributed by jason on Fri Sep 18 01:43:27 2009 from the more-time-to-preorder dept. www.topix.net | 9/18/09 4:24 AM Slackathon 2009 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 . www.topix.net | 9/17/09 12:06 AM FreeBSD bug grants local root access 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. www.topix.net | 9/14/09 11:51 PM FreeBSD Update All Installed Ports / Applications The yum command line tool is used to install and update software packages under CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux. www.topix.net | 8/27/09 10:07 PM |