Posts Tagged ‘NetBSD’
Calling all BSD SysAdmins
If you have 30 minutes between now and October 16th, you can help the BSD Certification Group determine which real-world tasks should be assessed by the upcoming BSDP exam. Read on for details on how you can help. read more...
SHA2 implementation potential buffer overflow in NetBSD
An error initializing a SHA2 context causes vulnerable applications using libcrypto to suffer from a 4- or 8-byte buffer overflow (for SHA256 and SHA512 correspondingly) with fixed content, potentially causing applications to crash. A workaround for this issue for programs in the NetBSD base system is to disable SHA256 as a HMAC for the secure [...]
One week left until EuroBSDCon
September 18th, 2009 Marks the beginning of the eighth EuroBSDCon with an opening day of tutorials presented by; Kirk McKusick, Peter Hansteen, and Randall Stewart. In addition on the third day (September 20th) The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) will offer the BSDA certification exam to attendees of EuroBSDCon 2009. The exam will be offered [...]
Interview of Tom Wickline of the Bordeaux Group
Bordeaux is available for Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD. You also have Bordeaux beta version for Mac. Will Bordeaux be available for other platforms too (OpenBSD, NetBSD…)? Bordeaux will run on any system that Wine runs on, we have builds for FreeBSD and PC-BSD at this time and if their is demand we would try our best to support OpenBSD, [...]
BSD and the Ruby Benchmark (via Jaime Fournier’s Blog)
NetBSD 5.0 OpenBSD 4.5 FreeBSD 8Beta2 Linux Ubuntu 9 OpenSolaris 2009/06 DragonflyBSD 2.2.1 The six benchmarks were conducted on the same hardware with basic installations. Obviously you might be able to improve performance with some special OS tweaks, but most people run with out of the box installs. Especially in the current state [...]
NetBSD 5.0.1 released
The NetBSD release engineering team has announced that the NetBSD 5.0.1 release is now available for download. NetBSD 5.0.1 is the first security/critical update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical in nature for security or stability reasons. All users are [...]
The Power Of Community (via: Open-Tube.com)
We had earlier featured many open source software, but here is a list that is the God of all the open source software, the software that is matured, well-established, popularized open source development and the use of free open source products. These projects are serving as a foundation to many software development projects, business networks and [...]
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 [...]
