Archive for December, 2010
BSD User Groups
Calling all BSD user groups, club and other organizations that would like to have their entity listed here. Please add a comment to this post with the following minimal information; Group name Website address Group description Meeting location Meeting date and time Point of contacts The editorial staff will review the submissions [...]
BSD and the FBI sponsored IPSEC backdoor…yawn…
The rumor mill was switched into extreme overdrive this week when Theo de Raadt founder of the OpenBSD project forwarded a message ENCL (1) he received from Gregory Perry. The message alerted the community to allegation by Perry claiming that he and possibly other developers had accepted compensation from the FBI for attempting to insert [...]
FreeBSD 9.0c available on Amazon EC2
Earlier this afternoon Colin Percival published an announcement that he has finished patches necessary enabling FreeBSD 9.0 Current to deploy under Amazon EC2. At some point these changes may be ported to the latest stable version but no target date has been given. For more information please jump over to Colin's blog.
Passwordless authentication primer on JAFDIP
A nice how to use ssh-keygen has been published on the news blog JAFDIP. The following is an excerpt; It seems that every time I am setting up a new bank of servers or a new rsync process I develop an acute case of Alzheimer’s. Whatever the reason be it the infrequency that I do these sorts of tasks or that I am actually just getting old I [...]
Editorial: Successful businesses do it with BSD!
The hidden underbelly of Mac OS X is; yep you guessed it BSD. Originally based on OpenBSD however since 10.2 or shortly there after FreeBSD. So this begs the question why do some many manufacturers rally behind Linux when Apple has clearly demonstrated beyond a shadow of any doubt that if you wish to be truly commercially successful building on [...]
