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OpenBSD's Todd Miller's BSDCon Slides Available

Posted by timothy on from the hey-lookie dept.

LiquidPC writes: "Todd Miller has made his BSDCon slide presentation available online. It's primarily focused on new features in 3.0, the pf filter, and what to look forward to in 3.0.1."

23 comments

  1. Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is an offtopic post, so don't feel bad modding me down.

    This is exactly the type of story that belongs on Slashdot. It is cool and informative. It talks about technology that will exist and what is necessary to make it happen. It appeals to the software-loving hacked in all of us.

    It surely belongs on the front page, unlike that Linux 127.0.0.1 story that precedes this one.

    Perhaps someone can resubmit it and get it published to the front page?

    1. Re:Awesome by gruntvald · · Score: 0

      Uh, it is on the front page, like all *bsd stories unless you have them excluded from your page for some reason.

    2. Re:Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think you've opted-in to have BSD stories on your front page. The default setup doesn't include BSD stories by default.

    3. Re:Awesome by gruntvald · · Score: 0

      I get your point, now that's not a nice thing to do. *bsd stories should be included by default.

  2. Unprecedented posting rate by gruntvald · · Score: 1

    Looks like we're actually up to 1 post/hour on a BSD story. How's yer funding Theo? Ha ha!

    1. Re:Unprecedented posting rate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I checked the cvs listing for donations to OpenBSD. And recently they added 170+ donators to the List. Looks like Theo has enough to get his lawn mowed, so he can code even more. How's yer dandruff?

    2. Re:Unprecedented posting rate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Who gives a rat's ass about Theo's funding? I thought the whole point of this exercise was freedom, not having some VC suck your dick.

  3. Hmm... by linuxator · · Score: 1

    Seems like some days old news and btw, next version of OBSD (OpenBSD, not BSOD:P) is 3.1, not 3.0.1 ;)

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    1. Re:Hmm... by LiquidPC · · Score: 2

      Yeah, you're right, my apologies, was a typo.

  4. Re:I was there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Stateful filtering of TCP connections? Sweet! Now I can tighten up my firewall while still being able to surf the web!

  5. Looks allright. by penguin_punk · · Score: 0

    Took me a while to read under my dialup, but pass me the iso's, I'm ready to go. (Just support the trident cyberblade i1 first.)

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  6. Interesting by NWT · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I fount this really sweet: Today's innocent bug is tomorrow's hole

    I think this is the right thing ... they try to prevent ANY bugs, harmful or not!
    Other software creators fix their bugs when they appear, but the openbsd developers try to avoid/prevent bugs, which is IMO the best thing to do!

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  7. *BSD by Pr0p3r_Tr0ll4g3 · · Score: 0

    Is BSD cool? Does anyone actually run it, besides the freaky freaks (and the 'leet ass Mac peeps)?

    Any good hardware support?
    Video: Nvidia GeForce
    Sound: Muse XL
    Raid: Abit VP6USB, Firewire, Video capture cards?

    Can I play games in *BSD? Besides those stupid ass ones that come with KDE...

  8. Re:I was there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You mean like the "check-state" and "keep-state" in ipfw? Why would it take OpenBSD developers so long to add that feature?

  9. Re:Facts about *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Dry up and blow away, you pitiful Linux zealot. I will never use Linux as long as there's a *BSD, and they keep chugging out new improved versions despite all your claptrap. You are a sorry ass troll with a mind like a broken record. Suggest you institutionalize yourself.

  10. Re:I was there by TurboRoot · · Score: 1

    Umm, how did the parent of this post get modded as a troll 3 times?

  11. Re:I was there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why? Because that is not really emad. Emad El-Haraty is a troll and a very good one indeed. The only real indication you get that he is infact a troll is the constant references to his homosexuality.

    The better question is "who"? Editors (as if we haven't had enough editor moderation abuse already), emad, or emad's friends? Emad El-Haraty has been modded down quite a lot over a short period of time (check his other posts) so it's either moderation abuse, or a (large) group of emad's friends. emad is not exactly the world's most popular person and has few friends at the best of times, so I strongly suspect there is editor moderation abuse in progress.

  12. Re:Facts about *BSD by vircum · · Score: 1

    This person seems to resemble the posts of BSD is dying, so before you flame the troll, check out the history.