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  1. Ever More NetBSD Packages

    Bsd · Announcements · · posted by timothy · from the running-away-with-your-hardware dept. · 22 comments
    Dan writes "Alistair Crooks says that by his calculations, at the end of January 2003, there were 3461 packages in the NetBSD Packages Collection, up from 3402 the previous month, a rise of 59. The package of the month award goes to rdesktop (pkgsrc/net/rdesktop), nominated by Andrew Brown and Ross Harvey. Rdesktop is a "dependency-free" utility to manage a session on a Windows box in an X window."

  2. January-February 2003 FreeBSD Status Report

    Bsd · Announcements · · posted by timothy · from the truth-in-advertising dept. · 23 comments
    Dan writes "FreeBSD's Scott Long provides the Jan-Feb 2003 bi-monthly FreeBSD status report. Highlights include focus on making 5.0 faster via more fine-grained locking, adding high-end features like memort support for i386. FreeBSD 5.1 is expected to ship in late May, early June, with 5.2 following end of summer with significant speed and stability improvements over 5.0. FreeBSD 4.8 release due shortly adds XFree86 4.3.0 and intel hyperthreading support. Major FreeBSD project statuses are also provided in this report."

  3. FreeBSD 4.8 Release Delayed Until Mar 24

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by timothy · from the when-it's-ready-it'll-be-ready dept. · 58 comments
    Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Murray Stokley indicates in his email that the latest FreeBSD 4.8 release will need to be postponed until March 24 in order to include suggested fixes related to the XFree86 4.3.0 port. After a complete package rebuild, they plan to release FreeBSD 4.8 RC2 first. Murray requests everyone to continue testing the XFree86 4.3.0 port to ensure a quality release."

  4. OpenBSD: Hackers Meet Soldiers

    Bsd · Money · · posted by Hemos · from the meeting-the-maker dept. · 308 comments
    BSDForums writes "OpenBSD has a well-deserved reputation for fanatical security. Why is the U.S. military funding it? What do you get out of it? Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin investigate and talk to Theo de Raadt, the creator, overseer, and taskmaster of the OpenBSD project!"

  5. XFree86 4.3.0 in FreeBSD Ports Tree

    Bsd · X · · posted by michael · from the eye-candy dept. · 23 comments
    Dan writes "Eric Anholt has committed the long awaited XFree86 4.3.0 to the FreeBSD ports tree. Please report any issues, bugs, etc. directly to him. The port appears to have support for popular cards such as NVidia, ATI, etc. Eric suggests that you use portupgrade to ensure you update fully from an earlier version of XFree86."

  6. Test OpenSSH 3.6 Snapshots

    Bsd · Security · · posted by timothy · from the good-seats-are-still-available dept. · 23 comments
    Dan writes "OpenBSD's Markus Friedl is requesting everyone to test the latest OpenSSH 3.6 nightly snapshots to help ensure a quality final release. The OpenSSH Portability Team takes the pure OpenSSH version and adds portability code so that OpenSSH can run on many other operating systems. Folks, download snapshots for your OS from one of these mirrors."

  7. XFree86 4.3.0, Latest Binutils Imported In NetBSD

    Bsd · Graphics · · posted by timothy · from the quick-on-the-draw dept. · 35 comments
    Dan writes "Matthias Scheler has imported XFree86 4.3.0 into NetBSD current, it is only tested under NetBSD-i386 at the moment. Also, as part of updating the toolchain, Matthew Green has imported the latest GNU binutils (2.13.2.1) into NetBSD-current. The new GNU binutils adds support for hppa and x86_64, improved support for existing architectures and is known to work for almost all CPU types NetBSD currently supports. Updates of gdb and gcc will follow."

  8. BSD Journaled File System Ready For Testing

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by timothy · from the dear-diary dept. · 113 comments
    Dan writes "The Journaled File System for FreeBSD (JFS4BSD) Project has the goal of porting the JFS Technology from IBM/Linux to FreeBSD. It uses a log-based, byte-level file system that was developed for transaction-oriented, high performance systems. Scalable and robust, its advantage over non-journaled file systems is its quick restart capability: JFS can restore a file system to a consistent state in a matter of seconds or minutes. The jfsutils is under a compilable state on FreeBSD."

  9. BSD Journaled File System Ready For Testing

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by timothy · from the dear-diary dept. · 113 comments
    Dan writes "The Journaled File System for FreeBSD (JFS4BSD) Project has the goal of porting the JFS Technology from IBM/Linux to FreeBSD. It uses a log-based, byte-level file system that was developed for transaction-oriented, high performance systems. Scalable and robust, its advantage over non-journaled file systems is its quick restart capability: JFS can restore a file system to a consistent state in a matter of seconds or minutes. The jfsutils is under a compilable state on FreeBSD."

  10. Firewire Updates For Scheduled FreeBSD 4.8 Release

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by timothy · from the making-movies-and-more dept. · 34 comments
    Dan writes "Hidetoshi Shimokawa has added new functionality to Firewire scheduled for FreeBSD 4.8 release. New features include built-in DV support, improved recovery process & timeout stability and Write/ioctl support for /dev/fwmem0. He has not tested this on PAL and is looking for volunteers."

  11. Firewire Updates For Scheduled FreeBSD 4.8 Release

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by timothy · from the making-movies-and-more dept. · 34 comments
    Dan writes "Hidetoshi Shimokawa has added new functionality to Firewire scheduled for FreeBSD 4.8 release. New features include built-in DV support, improved recovery process & timeout stability and Write/ioctl support for /dev/fwmem0. He has not tested this on PAL and is looking for volunteers."

  12. BSDCon 2003 - Call for Papers

    Bsd · Announcements · · posted by Hemos · from the get-your-papers-together dept. · 22 comments
    Dan writes "Usenix's Alex Walker announces that BSDCon 2003 Program Committee invites you to contribute original and innovative material on BSD and Open Source topics ranging from embedded BSD application development & deployment, BSD kernels & desktop, internet, security and network services, systems administration and much more. You can check here for more information and submission guidelines."

  13. Nov-Dec 2002 FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Status Report

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the stuff-to-read dept. · 27 comments
    Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Scott Long presents the FreeBSD November-December 2002 Bi-Monthly status report. Key highlights of the report include the anticipated FreeBSD 5.0 Release, Bluetooth stack development, busdma driver conversion project, DEVD, C99 & POSIX Conformance Project, FreeBSD Package Cluster work and much more!"

  14. Summary of Changes to NetBSD's Packages Collection

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by timothy · from the more-and-more-and-more dept. · 33 comments
    Dan writes "NetBSD's Alistair Crooks indicates in his December 2002 report that there are 3402 packages in the NetBSD Packages Collection, up from 3327 the previous month, a rise of 75. The Package of the Month award goes to pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgdepgraph, nominated by Andrew Brown - you'll need graphviz to look at the dependency graph that it produces, but the output is quite fascinating."

  15. FreeBSD 5.0 Available

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the still-has-a-better-mascot dept. · 353 comments
    Vegard writes "Although not yet officially announced, the 5.0 version of FreeBSD is beginning to appear on the FreeBSD FTP site and mirrors world wide." Congrats to the developers. Update: 01/19 17:44 GMT by T : Some more detail -- Dan writes "Scott Long of FreeBSD Release Engineering team has officially announced the availability of FreeBSD 5.0 release. Improvements include second generation UFS filesystem, GEOM, the extensible and flexible storage framework, DEVFS, the device virtual filesystem, Bluetooth, ACPI, CardBus, IEEE 1394 and many more! FreeBSD is also available on 64-bit sparc64 and ia64 platforms."

  16. FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 Now Ready

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by Hemos · from the go-out-and-get-it dept. · 291 comments
    Dan writes "Scott Long announces that FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 has been released and available at all mirrors sites. Release notes can be viewed here, you can download 5.0 RC3 from ftp.freebsd.org or from one of your favorite mirror sites. Many thanks to the FreeBSD Release Engineering team for their work efforts!"

  17. FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 Now Ready

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by Hemos · from the go-out-and-get-it dept. · 291 comments
    Dan writes "Scott Long announces that FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 has been released and available at all mirrors sites. Release notes can be viewed here, you can download 5.0 RC3 from ftp.freebsd.org or from one of your favorite mirror sites. Many thanks to the FreeBSD Release Engineering team for their work efforts!"

  18. FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 Now Available

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by michael · from the five-candles-on-the-cake dept. · 261 comments
    Dan writes "Murray Stokely of FreeBSD release engineering team announces that they're one milestone closer with the immediate availability of FreeBSD first release candidate for the i386, alpha, sparc64, and ia64 platforms. ISO images and FTP installation directories are available now from the FreeBSD FTP site."

  19. FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 Now Available

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by michael · from the five-candles-on-the-cake dept. · 261 comments
    Dan writes "Murray Stokely of FreeBSD release engineering team announces that they're one milestone closer with the immediate availability of FreeBSD first release candidate for the i386, alpha, sparc64, and ia64 platforms. ISO images and FTP installation directories are available now from the FreeBSD FTP site."

  20. WineX (And Warcraft3) On FreeBSD

    Bsd · Wine · · posted by timothy · from the crossing-boundaries dept. · 143 comments
    Dan writes "Kenneth Culver has implemented the Linux ftruncate64, truncate64, and mmap2 syscalls in the linuxulator on his computer, (mostly cut 'n pasted the mmap2 from regular mmap with a couple of changes) and with these changes it is possible to run the Linux version of WineX (the one you have to pay for) to run Warcraft 3 on FreeBSD." If WineX is interesting to you, this earlier article on playing Windows games with WineX (under Linux) may be worth a read.

  21. WineX (And Warcraft3) On FreeBSD

    Bsd · Wine · · posted by timothy · from the crossing-boundaries dept. · 143 comments
    Dan writes "Kenneth Culver has implemented the Linux ftruncate64, truncate64, and mmap2 syscalls in the linuxulator on his computer, (mostly cut 'n pasted the mmap2 from regular mmap with a couple of changes) and with these changes it is possible to run the Linux version of WineX (the one you have to pay for) to run Warcraft 3 on FreeBSD." If WineX is interesting to you, this earlier article on playing Windows games with WineX (under Linux) may be worth a read.

  22. OpenBSD 3.2 Song Now Available

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by michael · from the that's-right-we-said-'song' dept. · 157 comments
    Dan writes "Todd Miller says that the OpenBSD 3.2 song is now available via ftp. The OpenBSD 3.2 song lyrics are also available."

  23. OpenBSD 3.2 Song Now Available

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by michael · from the that's-right-we-said-'song' dept. · 157 comments
    Dan writes "Todd Miller says that the OpenBSD 3.2 song is now available via ftp. The OpenBSD 3.2 song lyrics are also available."

  24. OpenSSH 3.5 Released

    Bsd · Security · · posted by timothy · from the vavavoom dept. · 140 comments
    Dan writes "Markus Friedl announces that OpenSSH 3.5 has just been released with notable updates since 3.4. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly. Enhancements include bug fixes, improved support for Privilege Separation (Portability, Kerberos, PermitRootLogin handling), RSA blinding in order to avoid timing attacks against the RSA host key and much more. Congratulations are in order for the OpenSSH team's hard work and efforts."

  25. OpenSSH 3.5 Released

    Bsd · Security · · posted by timothy · from the vavavoom dept. · 140 comments
    Dan writes "Markus Friedl announces that OpenSSH 3.5 has just been released with notable updates since 3.4. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly. Enhancements include bug fixes, improved support for Privilege Separation (Portability, Kerberos, PermitRootLogin handling), RSA blinding in order to avoid timing attacks against the RSA host key and much more. Congratulations are in order for the OpenSSH team's hard work and efforts."

  26. NetBSD @ linuxday.lu

    Bsd · Linuxbusiness · · posted by Hemos · from the reportage-from-the-front dept. · 16 comments
    Dan writes "Hubert Feyrer reports his experiences at the second Linuxdays of Lexembourgh in an email. From Oct 1st to 3rd, the second Linuxdays of Luxembourgh took place, which attracted about 260 visitors. There were many tutorials and presentations, and also an exhibition area. Hubert Feyrer was there doing presentations on a Video-Rendering Cluster using NetBSD, and a general introduction to The NetBSD Project. He also ran a NetBSD booth!"

  27. NetBSD @ linuxday.lu

    Bsd · Linuxbusiness · · posted by Hemos · from the reportage-from-the-front dept. · 16 comments
    Dan writes "Hubert Feyrer reports his experiences at the second Linuxdays of Lexembourgh in an email. From Oct 1st to 3rd, the second Linuxdays of Luxembourgh took place, which attracted about 260 visitors. There were many tutorials and presentations, and also an exhibition area. Hubert Feyrer was there doing presentations on a Video-Rendering Cluster using NetBSD, and a general introduction to The NetBSD Project. He also ran a NetBSD booth!"

  28. Bluetooth stack for FreeBSD

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the isn't-that-special dept. · 20 comments
    Dan writes "Maksim Yevmenkin announces that another "bluetooth" engineering release is available for download. This release features several major changes and includes support for H4 UART and H2 USB transport layers, Host Controller Interface (HCI), Link Layer Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP), Bluetooth sockets layer and more. Maksim has subsequently provided followup patches for this release."

  29. Bluetooth stack for FreeBSD

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the isn't-that-special dept. · 20 comments
    Dan writes "Maksim Yevmenkin announces that another "bluetooth" engineering release is available for download. This release features several major changes and includes support for H4 UART and H2 USB transport layers, Host Controller Interface (HCI), Link Layer Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP), Bluetooth sockets layer and more. Maksim has subsequently provided followup patches for this release."

  30. NetBSD 1.6 Released

    Bsd · Announcements · · posted by timothy · from the what-only-39-supported-platforms dept. · 199 comments
    BSD Forums writes "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 1.6 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports fifty two different system architectures, all from a single source tree, and is always being ported to more. The NetBSD 1.6 release contains complete binary releases for thirty nine different system architectures. The thirteen remaining are not fully supported at this time and are thus not part of the binary distribution." hubertf adds some important notes: "Many of the FTP Mirrors are now carrying the NetBSD 1.6 distribution. Please try to use the NetBSD FTP Mirror Site closest to you. ... Czech, German, French, Japanese, Polish, Portugese , Russian, Spanish and Swedish language translations of the NetBSD 1.6 release announcement are available." The NetBSD packages collection now includes over 3000 pieces of software, including KDE3, OpenOffice and many more of the usual suspects.

  31. NetBSD Foundation Board Election Results Posted

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by chrisd · from the florida-stye-recount-not-necessary dept. · 17 comments
    Dan writes "With the publishing of the final ballot of the Board Elections on September 12th, a one-year long effort to establish a more democratic structure in the NetBSD Project came to a successful end."

  32. NetBSD Foundation Board Election Results Posted

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by chrisd · from the florida-stye-recount-not-necessary dept. · 17 comments
    Dan writes "With the publishing of the final ballot of the Board Elections on September 12th, a one-year long effort to establish a more democratic structure in the NetBSD Project came to a successful end."

  33. Porting OBSD's Crypto Hardware Support To FreeBSD

    Bsd · Security · · posted by timothy · from the eyescanning dept. · 24 comments
    Dan writes: "Sam Leffler reports in his email to freebsd-arch regarding the status of his progress porting OpenBSD hardware crypto support to FreeBSD. He's had a patch available for freebsd-stable for a while, and has made major progress changing the KAME IPSEC code to use this framework, again in the style done by openbsd (using continuations to break up the input and output packet processing paths). In addition to the IPSEC work he's been talking to various hardware vendors about support for their products in FreeBSD."

  34. Porting OBSD's Crypto Hardware Support To FreeBSD

    Bsd · Security · · posted by timothy · from the eyescanning dept. · 24 comments
    Dan writes: "Sam Leffler reports in his email to freebsd-arch regarding the status of his progress porting OpenBSD hardware crypto support to FreeBSD. He's had a patch available for freebsd-stable for a while, and has made major progress changing the KAME IPSEC code to use this framework, again in the style done by openbsd (using continuations to break up the input and output packet processing paths). In addition to the IPSEC work he's been talking to various hardware vendors about support for their products in FreeBSD."

  35. NetBSD 1.5.3 Released, 1.6 On The Way

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by timothy · from the runs-on-hearing-aids-toasters-thermostats dept. · 80 comments
    djcdplaya writes: "The highly portable NetBSD has reached a new milestone. OSNews.com is reporting that NetBSD 1.5.3 has been released. 1.5.3 was released correcting some bugs and adding some additional security. It also has improved device driver support." Part of the same announcement: "Please note that a new major release of NetBSD, version 1.6, is currently in beta test and should be released within a few weeks.

  36. OpenSSH Vulnerability Disclosed, Version 3.4 Released

    It · Security · · posted by timothy · from the quick-turnaround dept. · 336 comments
    Dan writes: "OpenSSH 3.4 has been released and will be shortly available on all mirrors. All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.9.9 and 3.3 contain an input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and privilege escalation. OpenSSH 3.4 fixes this bug." And kylus writes: "The previously mentioned vulnerability in OpenSSH has been disclosed by ISS X-Force today on the BugTraq list. This is a potential remote root compromise, and while there is a workaround, it's advised that users upgrade to version 3.4 as soon as they can."

  37. OpenSSH Vulnerability Disclosed, Version 3.4 Released

    It · Security · · posted by timothy · from the quick-turnaround dept. · 336 comments
    Dan writes: "OpenSSH 3.4 has been released and will be shortly available on all mirrors. All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.9.9 and 3.3 contain an input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and privilege escalation. OpenSSH 3.4 fixes this bug." And kylus writes: "The previously mentioned vulnerability in OpenSSH has been disclosed by ISS X-Force today on the BugTraq list. This is a potential remote root compromise, and while there is a workaround, it's advised that users upgrade to version 3.4 as soon as they can."

  38. FreeBSD 4.6 Release Delayed

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by michael · from the when-it's-ready dept. · 223 comments
    Dan writes "Bruce A. Mah from the FreeBSD Release Engineering team announced that due to some late-breaking issues, 4.6 will be released about a week later than originally planned."