Archive for April, 2008
Puffy and the Cryptonauts: What’s New in OpenBSD 4.3 – ONLamp.com
From undeadly: Federico Biancuzzi has once again made an interview with a number of OpenBSD developers for the upcoming release. Here is a short excerpt from the article: You developed snmpd(8) an implementation of the Simple Network Management Protocol, and snmpctl(8), its control tool. What is the status of the implementation? Reyk [...]
pkgsrc-2008Q1 released
excerpt: The pkgsrc-2008Q1 Release ========================= The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q1 release, which has support for more packages than previous releases. As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler [...]
Notice of System Breach
Greetings, I wish I were contacting you all (1100+ email addresses) under more pleasant circumstances; however, the matter is of a rather serious nature. Based on the information recently provided to me I am taking the opportunity to notify you of the system breach affecting BSD News. I have painstakingly scoured the list of accounts as [...]
pkgsrcCon 2008
pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend. Where? Berlin, Germany When? Jun 13-15, 2008 Who? Developers [...]
The New York City BSD Conference
After an unfortunate hiatus in 2007, rest assured that NYCBSDCon will be happening over the weekend of October 11-12, 2008 at Columbia University with a similar format to the 2006 conference. A cfp has been issued, if you have a BSD topic and wish to speak at this event, then now is the time to sign up as the deadline is June 15th for all [...]
BSDCan 2008
BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa, Canada, has quickly established itself as the technical conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced developers. BSDCan 2008 will be [...]
Only 9 days left until BSDCon Barcelona, Spain.
BSDCon is a national level congress made up of diverse conferences based on the BSD operating systems.The conference being held in Barcelona, Spain is open to developer and systems administrators and users of any BSD operating systems. It runs from April 19th to the 20th. Registration
Spread the goodness (SpreadBSD)
SpreadBSD is a grassroots BSD advocacy project funded and set up by iXsystems to promote the use and spread the knowledge of FreeBSD. The group currently consists of 5 members. To learn more about them or to join their effort.
Welcome to the temporary new home of BSD News.
There isn't much else to say but that we will be re-skinning this piggy to be more BSD like. Ultimately if this works for our need then I will arrange to have the bsdnews.com domain pointed at this location. Thanks for everyone's help. Regards, Mikel
