Posts Tagged ‘NetBSD’
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 [...]
NetBSD runs on OpenBlockS 600
According the web site from the self proclaimed 'Embedded Leader in Japan' this devices is a palm sized server available for approximately 599 USD. It includes two 1000bt network connections a rs-232 console connection and two USB connections. At this time it supports OpenBlockS600 supports Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, and NetBSD. A full review of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
BSD Magazine September 2k9 Issue
The latest issue of BSD Magazine has been out for a few weeks and this article delves into the resource a bit deeper. Take a moment to read the article especially if you've never looked at the magazine before. read more...
Arekeia Software Releases a 8.1 of it’s Network Backup Utility
Arekeia Network Backup is available for a variety of Operating Systems and there are agents available to assist with backing up common services like the following; Arkeia agents, including: IBM DB2 Novell eDirectory Lotus [...]
