Posts Tagged ‘OpenBSD’
release::OpenBSD 5.0
OpenBSD 5.0 release today. Although you can download the release form various FTP/HTTP mirrors for free, remember that purchasing CD media from official sources via the ISBN 978-0-9784475-8-8 helps to support the project. read more...
BSD overtake Linux for development
According to TheInquire.net ~ The irony in all this is that Evans Data's data shows that while Linux fans have been talking about the death of BSD for well over a decade, it seems that thanks to Apple, BSD in the form of Mac OS X appears to have overtaken Linux in one usage metric. read more...
release::Samba 3.6.0
Earlier this week Samba 3.6.0 was released. Most importantly a new nfs quota back-end for Linux has been added that is based on the existing Solaris/FreeBSD implementation. In addition the new SMB Traffic Analyzer (SMBTA) is has been completed. Overall this constitutes an ongoing internal restructuring for better separation of internal subsystem [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Surprise OpenBSD 4.6 Released TODAY!
Approximately 2 weeks ahead of schedule Theo de Raadt transmitted the release notice that OpenBSD 4.6 is officially available. This mornings announcement was rather unexpected as the OpenBSD.org website but more than welcome. A complete list of the changes is available here. Remember that the project's CD-Rom sales help fund the project [...]
T-Minus Fourteen Days…
To what? Samhein you may ask? Perhaps I am talking about Día de los Muertos? Or maybe it's the day you nurse your hangover from that Halloween Party you were at until 3 AM. Although most of these are correct, I am talking about the much anticipated release of OpenBSD 4.6. You can support the project by preordering you CD set here. The changes [...]
