November 2011
1 post
OpenBSD reaches 5.0! →
As several submitters wrote in to remind us, Following the regular 6-monthly schedule, OpenBSD 5.0 was released on 1 November and is available on CDs and online.
October 2011
5 posts
A Week of OpenBSD Hacking In Slovenia: Developers... →
For a few days in September (16th through 23rd), the Slovenian capital
Ljubljana was also the World Capital of OpenBSD hacking, hosting the
s2k11: General hackathon, with
25…
Slovenian interview with Theo →
The main Slovenian daily newspaper Delo has published their interview with Theo which they did during s2k11. For those Undeadly readers that do not understand Slovenian, we’ve approached Delo…
A Week of OpenBSD Hacking In Slovenia: Developers... →
For a few days in September (16th through 23rd), the Slovenian capital
Ljubljana was also the World Capital of OpenBSD hacking, hosting the
s2k11: General hackathon, with
25…
OpenBSD 4.9 Latency and Throughput testing →
Andrew Fresh wrote in to tell us about his recent work in measuring key performance data for OpenBSD 4.9 using professional-grade testing equipment. Andrew writes,
“ I have been working to…
Provisioning Root on Softraid →
Josh Grosse wrote in to tell us about his experience with the newly practical softraid(4) for root file systems:
“ A pair of commits by Joel Sing (jsing@) on September 19th implemented…
September 2011
1 post
Virtualizing the OpenBSD Routing Table →
Joel Knight wrote in to alert us to his recent article Virtualizing the OpenBSD Routing Table. In his cover message, Joel says,
“
I’ve written a blog entry about using routing domains on…
August 2011
3 posts
Practical UNIX Manuals: mdoc →
Kristaps Dzonsons wrote in with news on the documentation front:
In a previous article, it was said that UNIX manuals can look “indistinguishable from magic”. This makes sense given the…
Last reminder: Slackathon 2011 in Stockholm/Sweden... →
Just a quick reminder if anyone missed the free conference in Stockholm this Saturday.
Read more…
EuroBSDCon 2011 program has strong OpenBSD... →
The EuroBSDCon organizers wrote in to tell us that registration for EuroBSDCon 2011 is now open. The conference is scheduled for October 6 - 9 2011 in Maarsen, The Netherlands.
As usual the…
July 2011
1 post
Systrace Sandboxed OpenSSH →
A little while back, Ray Lai wrote in about a very interesting commit by Damen Miller (djm@). With this, OpenSSH’s privilege separation is further tightened:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes...
April 2011
2 posts
Bigmem enabled on amd64 →
Since this commit:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: beck@cvs.openbsd.org 2011/04/02 11:36:45 Modified files: sys/arch/amd64/amd64: machdep.c Log message:
Enable bigmem by default on...
pcc 1.0 Released →
No April Foolery: The Portable C Compiler version 1.0 was released on April 1st!
As with so many things BSD, this project proves that good code is timeless and can benefit from literally…
March 2011
8 posts
OpenBSD 4.9 is available for preorder! →
What is the answer to life, the universe and everything? Naturally 42. Quite different from the answer to “what shall I pre-order today?”, as that is obviously OpenBSD 4.9, which is…
groff deleted from tree →
On saturday, Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) deleted groff(1) from the OpenBSD source tree. This is the culmination of a lot of work by Ingo but also Kristaps Dzonsons and Joerg Sonnenberger who are…
Memoirs of a Network Disaster →
Michael W. Lucas posted a new blog entry about one of his own harrowing experiences years ago. Helpless vendors and inadequate commercial software forced his company to turn to OpenBSD and PF for…
Your OpenBSD Story - Henrik Kramshoej →
Henrik Kramshoej looks way back at his early days with OpenBSD:
“ While studying at the University of Copenhagen, DIKU.dk we used Unix systems - the sandbox it was called and I liked it. I…
BSDCan 2011 schedule announced →
Dan Langille recently announced the schedule for BSDCan 2011. It looks like another great event, with a good lineup of OpenBSD-related talks: Tutorial: Building the network you need with…
New Ruby benchmarks show OpenBSD improvements →
NetBSD developer Jaime Fournier has published a new round of Ruby benchmarks comparing the various BSD projects and Ubuntu Linux. Some readers will remember he performed a similar test a couple of…
Your OpenBSD Story - Nick Humphrey →
Nick Humphrey writes in to tell us about how he got started with OpenBSD:
“ I started using OpenBSD around 2000. In early 2001 I joined a small company with an almost non-existent IT…
Heads up! OpenBSD turns 4.9-current →
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has tagged 4.9-current. That means that we are one step closer to the upcoming release. Keep an eye out for pre-orders!
From: Theo de Raadt
To:...
February 2011
10 posts
Your OpenBSD Story - Daniel Gracia →
Daniel Gracia writes in about his own experiences with OpenBSD:
“ I began playing with OpenBSD with the 3.2 release. I remember that as being a great milestone: PF was just starting to…
Add Color to Your Terminal →
Mark Solocinski has kindly given us permission to reprint one of his recent blog posts. This is a nice quick tip for getting color “ls” output in your terminal. Want to add some color to…
OpenBSD booth at SCALE 9x →
Just like last year, Seth Fulton writes in about the SCALE 9x event in Los Angeles this weekend:
“ I’m running the OpenBSD booth this weekend at the So Cal Linux Expo in
LA. We’ll be…
Portable C Compiler 1.0 Branched! →
Michael Dexter writes in with news about the PCC project:
“ Thanks to the hard work of Anders “Ragge” Magnusson and his team plus the help of donors from around the world, the Portable C…
Forwarding IPTV Traffic with PF →
Since the day I got my shiny new FTTH internet connection complete with IPTV, I was curious about making the TV show on my desktop. Eventually, purchasing a network based video player that was…
Strong OpenBSD Lineup at AsiaBSDCon 2011 →
Peter N.M. Hansteen writes in with news about the next major BSD conference:
“ The AsiaBSDCon conference organizers have published this year’s schedule, with a strong OpenBSD showing….
OpenBSD private cloud computing →
Van Dung Ha writes in to ask for advice from the community:
“ Dear loyal OpenBSD Journal readers, I am planning to setup my own private cloud. It will have dedicated VPS’ with preferably…
A visual guide to TMUX →
The team over at Hawk Host released a two-part tutorial for users new to the tmux(1) terminal mutliplexer. The official manpage from Nicholas Marriott (nicm@) is excellent, as usual, but it’s…
Tech Republic articles focus on PF →
Peter N. M. Hansteen writes in to tell us about a couple mainstream articles about PF:
“
Chad Perrin of Tech Republic has written a couple of articles in their Security section about…
BSDTalk #200 - The mg text editor with Kjell... →
Igor Zinovik reminded us that we completely forgot to mention BSDTalk #200 from last October. This is a great episode featuring Kjell Wooding (kjell@) discussing his experiences as maintainer of…
January 2011
1 post
Packages test needed →
One week after the OpenBSD ports tree has been locked in order to polish the last improvements for the upcoming OpenBSD 4.9 release, Marc Espie (espie@) asked for intensive tests on the ports@…
December 2010
2 posts
Support for Realtek 802.11n USB devices →
Damien Bergamini (damien@) submitted an article on his latest work on wireless networking devices. He recently committed rsu(4), below is the commit message and some background behind it:
...
Ports Hackathon 2010 →
A few weeks ago, the annual ports hackathon was held again in Budapest, Hungary. The event, again organized by Robert Nagy, was a great success: much of the work has already been committed to the…
November 2010
4 posts
[c2k10] Interview with Henning Brauer (henning@) ... →
Henning Brauer (henning@) has been an inspiration to me since I started using OpenBSD. On misc@, there are a few individuals that I follow. Nick Holland’s (nick@) posts are very…
Improvements to OpenBSD as a VMware guest →
For OpenBSD 4.4, David Gwynne (dlg@) wrote
vmt(4)
to be “a kernel level implementation of VMware Tools” for OpenBSD.
Initially it provided an interface “to the host machine’s clock as a
timedelta…
USB devices wanted →
Jacob Meuser (jakemsr@) recently asked for more USB gear on the want.html page. Jacob’s been working on (USB) audio equipment for some time and is now expanding his work into the USB stack. He’s…
OpenBSD 4.8 Released! →
Theo de Raadt announces the official release of OpenBSD 4.8! This release adds better suspend and resume as well as new IKE and LDAP daemons, a bunch of network and SCSI stack…
October 2010
2 posts
[c2k10] Interview with Antoine Jacoutot... →
With over 6,000 ports and climbing, you wonder who is behind the scenes making all these ports available to the community. If you are like me, you are using OpenBSD at home and at work….
OpenBSD 4.8 CDs arrival →
The firsts shipping notices of the OpenBSD 4.8 CD set have been received yesterday. Jeremy Chase posted this message to the misc@ mailing-list:
From: Jeremy Chase
To: OpenBSD general usage...
September 2010
2 posts
OpenBSD 4.8 is available for preorder! →
Pre-orders are now being accepted for OpenBSD 4.8, which is scheduled for release on November 1st, 2010.
The biggest new feature in this release is the vastly improved suspend and…
[c2k10] Interview with Marco Peereboom (marco@)... →
It has been said that Marco Peereboom (marco@) has been reinventing the Internet since 2000. Indeed, he has done a tremendous amount of work to help improve OpenBSD in various areas…
August 2010
7 posts
Heads up! OpenBSD turns 4.8-current →
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has tagged 4.8-current. This means that we are one step closer to the upcoming OpenBSD 4.8 release. Keep an eye out for pre-orders! Read below for the full commit…
NVIDIA laptops wanted →
Theo sent a request to misc@ asking for laptop donations. This time, developers are in need of NVIDIA-based hardware. In the past, you may have accidentally bought this kind of machine so this is…
A Tale Of Mozilla Ports →
Landry Breuil (landry@)
writes in with a fascinating and sorted tale of porting:
Here’s a tale about the Mozilla ports infrastructure, but it could
be titled, “I needed the Lightning…
IIJ outside-air-cooled data center experiment with... →
Takuya Asada (syuu@) wrote in to say:
Two OpenBSD developers Yojiro Uo (yuo@) and Yasuoka Masahiko (yasuoka@) work at a leading ISP in Japan called IIJ (Internet Initiative Japan Inc.).
I…
[c2k10] (Part 6) →
How leaders, managers, mentors and coaches motivate others towards a
common goal is a very well researched topic. The methods typically
used within entirely volunteer organizations…
Ports tree locked for 4.8 →
On the 1st of August, Marc Espie (espie@) announced on the ports@ mailing list that the ports tree has been locked, meaning that users are welcome to test and report bugs. Please read on for…
Call for testers: ACPI suspend on laptops →
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has called out on the tech@ mailing list for aggressive testing the new ACPI suspend/resume code to be shipped in the upcoming OpenBSD 4.8 release. Please read on for…
July 2010
9 posts
Heads up! OpenBSD now supports multi-byte... →
On July 27th, Stefan Sperling (stsp@) added support for the multi-byte characters in the OpenBSD libc. Thanks to the work of the people involved in its development, the OpenBSD C library now…