OpenBSD Looking At Funding Shortfall In 2014

Freshly Exhumed writes "Today the OpenBSD mailing list carried a plea from Theo de Raadt for much needed financial aid for the OpenBSD foundation: 'I am resending this request for funding our electricity bills because it is not yet resolved. We really need even more funding beyond that, because otherwise all of this is simply unsustainable. This request is the smallest we can make.' Bob Beck, of the OpenBSD Foundation, added: 'the fact is right now, OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on.'" The electricity bill in question is $20,000 a year for build servers located in Canada.

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Re:Ask Apple

[Colonel Fahlt]

ipfw was replaced by pf in 10.7 Lion. Their man pages sometimes lag, I think. For 10.9, see: ipfw.8 pf.conf.5

Photo of OpenBSD Build Server Racks

[Freshly Exhumed]

Here's a link to a photo on OpenBSD Journal of the build server racks and all the great (some quite old) machines being used:

http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jpg

Lots of memories looking at some of those machines... I'd be a bit concerned about the longevity of some of those.