Posts Tagged ‘Mac OS X’
Announcement: End of Travel Grant Applications for BSDCan
Dear FreeBSD Community, Today is the last day to submit your travel grant application for BSDCan 2010! The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application at by April 9, 2010 to apply for this grant. How it [...]
Schedule for BSDCan 2010 published
For those who are unfamiliar BSDCan is a BSD Conference held in Ottawa, Canada typically during the second week of May. This year's conference will run from May 13th & 14th and is preceded by two days of conferences on the 11th & 12th. As this year's conference approaches the organizers have published a list of events. The schedule of [...]
February issue of BSD Magazine available for download- FREE
BSD Magazine is offering the current issues available as a PDF download for FREE! In this issue: A first look at PC-BSD 8 release- Jan Stedehouder Installing and securing an Apache Jail with SSL on FreeBSD- Rob Somerville The gemstones for FreeBSD- Marko Milenovic OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD as file sharing servers [...]
AsiaBSDCon 2010 travel grant application extention
Good News!! We've extended the deadline for accepting AsiaBSDCon travel grant applications. Please submit your application by Feb. 10, 2010. If you have already submitted an application, you will be hearing from us soon. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application [...]
VMWare acuires Zimbra from Yahoo
The announcement published on Zimbra's site states that VMWare will has acquired Zimbra from Yahoo. It is apparent that VMWare has it's sites set on entering the cloud in a bold way, and this move places them in competition with Gmail. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite is available as an open source community supported version, a closed source and [...]
HighPoint Technologies RocketRAID 622 for FreeBSD and Mac OS X
The RocketRAID 622 from HighPoint Technologies supports most modern operating systems, according to the site, but only list Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. It took some additional digging on the HighPoint Mac support page to discover that Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) has support already built in. While the RocketRAID 622 boasts some pretty [...]
Mac OS X buffer overflow vulnerability published
Earlier today SecurityReason released a proof of concept for the buffer overflow vulnerability found in libc gdtoa() function which is used by printf(). The index array overflow was first reported by researcher Maksymilian Arciemowicz last June. The advisory describes a flaw in the libc/gdtoa code in OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X, as [...]
Apple’s GCD has been ported to FreeBSD
The FreeBSD developer team has demonstrated how easy it was to port Apple's Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) technology. It has been reported that out of the box support should appear in FreeBSD 8.1. The important thing to understand is that because of the dev team's effort other project will find it even easier to port this technology to their [...]
BSDCert::Deadline Approaching fast for the BSDP JTA Survey
October 16th marks the deadline for the BSD Professional Job Task Analysis Survey. If you are an active member of the BSD community then you should seriously consider completing the survey. These surveys are necessary prerequisite for completing the exam objectives. Without community support the exam will not be completed on schedule. We all [...]
OpenSSH 5.3 Released
I don't know of any sysadmin who hasn't at least heard of ssh. Let alone at least uses it to maintain their servers. Without ssh we would have to rely on such tools as telnet or rsh. Thanks to the folks at OpenBSD we have OpenSSH a secure implementation of the ssh protocol, including daemon and supporting client applications. On October 1st [...]
