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BSDCon '03 Nearly Here (OpenBSD 3.4, Too)

Posted by timothy on from the such-euphony-from-three-little-letters dept.

robotdreams writes "Once again BSDCon showcases the BSD community's long history of innovative research, open exchange of ideas, and collaborative work. Tutorials this year feature: an intensive code walkthrough of the new FreeBSD 5.x release, debugging kernel problems on live systems, advanced BSD system and network security, and FreeBSD's new GEOM disk I/O subsystem." Since BSDCon runs from September 8th through 12th, you're probably either already going or out of luck ;) On the other hand, you're still early for OpenBSD 3.4, now taking pre-orders -- details below.

An anonymous reader writes "Pre-orders for the OpenBSD project's latest release, 3.4, are now being taken. This release will ship around November 1st. Significant enhancements have been made in this release, including i386 switch to ELF executable format, further W^X improvements for i386, ld.so on ELF platforms now loads libraries in a random order for greater resistance to attacks, inclusion of a static bounds checker to the compiler for basic checks on functions which accept buffers and sizes, strcpy/strcat function audit to replace with safer strlcpy/strlcat, ProPolice stack protection in the kernel, further manual page cleanups, large number of bug fixes and optimizations to the packet filter (PF) including packet tagging, stateful TCP normalization, passive OS detection, SYN proxy, and adaptive state timeouts, and many other improvements to the rest of the system.

Order a CD from the OpenBSD store. Ordering a CD helps support the project, as a bonus you get cool stickers, artwork, and an audio track!"

The same reader sent links to more information on this release, including new features, and the changelog between 3.3 and 3.4.

9 of 332 comments (clear)

  1. The important question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will that hot FreeBSD devil babe be there?!

  2. Soothing break by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 5, Funny
    We'd like to interrupt this BSD story for a bit of pro-BSD propaganda.

    Tell me you don't want BSD on your laptop now.

    Further persuasion available here. This is definitely +1 Interesting material to any heterosexual male. Mod me down if you are the sendmail author or otherwise uninterested.

    1. Re:Soothing break by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 2, Funny

      Do you know how hard it is to find an attractive mormon woman in latex?

    2. Re:Soothing break by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Tell me you don't want BSD on your laptop now.

      +5, serious; I want BSD on top of my lap. Is that the same thing?

  3. Don't go! by in7ane · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please don't go to either of these, and if you already are - come back now. I hear there is a good change of dying at either of these two conventions.

  4. Re:FreeBSD filesystem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I just lost my Moustache in a shaving accident you insensitive clod

  5. Re:FreeBSD filesystem by Frohboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sigh... why do people mod things up as "interesting" or "insightful" when they don't understand what they mean? The parent should potentially be modified up as +1 funny.

    Note the following terms used (and think of associated acronyms):

    • Async Network And Loopback probe
    • Big Data Storage Management companies
  6. Re:FreeBSD filesystem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You missed the moustache ride and penal sheath?

  7. Very interesting, but... by edunbar93 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Significant enhancements have been made in this release, including i386 switch to ELF executable format, further W^X improvements for i386...

    Yes, but what *I* want to know is whether the BSD babes are going to be there. :D

    Mmmm. Mondo cleavage and red latex!

    --
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