OpenBSD

Nov 13

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.

Oct 27

A Week of OpenBSD Hacking In Slovenia: Developers Report From s2k11 (Part 3) -

s2k11 T-shirt design 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…

Oct 18

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…

Oct 17

A Week of OpenBSD Hacking In Slovenia: Developers Report From s2k11 (Part 2) -

s2k11 T-shirt design 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…

Oct 14

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…

Oct 02

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…

Sep 27

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…

Aug 28

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…

Aug 04

Last reminder: Slackathon 2011 in Stockholm/Sweden this weekend -

Just a quick reminder if anyone missed the free conference in Stockholm this Saturday.
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Aug 03

EuroBSDCon 2011 program has strong OpenBSD showing; registration now open - 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…