Dr. Brian Robert Callahan (bcallah@)
blogged about his work in getting D compiler(s) working under OpenBSD.
The first paragraph reads:
I got GDC, the GNU D Compiler, working on OpenBSD. Supporting D has been a very long time coming. Here’s the st…
Hoping to be able to make a conference in Vienna in September (and doing it digitally if not), the EuroBSDCon is now accepting submissions for presentations and tutorials.
Read more at 2021.EuroBSDCon.org
In a recent blog post, OpenBSD developer Solène Rapenne (solene@) offers an over view of the security features offered by a default OpenBSD installation.
The first paragraph of the introduction reads,
In this text I will explain what makes Op…
With the following
commit,
Florian Obser (florian@) imported
dhcpleased(8),
DHCP daemon to acquire IPv4 address leases
from servers, plus
dhcpleasectl(8),
a utility to control the daemon:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: florian…
With the following
commit,
Florian Obser (florian@) imported
resolvd(8),
a daemon for handling nameserver configuration:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: florian@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/02/24 11:10:41
Added files:
sbin/resolvd :…
In this commit, David Gwynne (dlg@) adds a new veb(4) driver to the tree. David’s goal is to replace the old bridge(4) driver:
Read more…
Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) is
teasing
OpenBSD booting multi-user on Apple M1 hardware:
So OpenBSD boots multi-user on the new Apple M1 hardware. This still
has some hacks in it that need to be fixed, so don’t expect support
for this in the tree…
Recent noteworthy things commited to -current and not previously reported include:
[2021-01-26] Patrick Wildt (patrick@)
continues work
[with help from Mark Kettenis (kettenis@)] on
supporting
the Apple M1.
[2021-02-06] Solène Rapenne (…
You may have missed the event during the weekend, but with this commit, OpenBSD -current turned 6.9-beta.
The commit message reads,
Read more…
Does your pf configuration have route-to rules? If so, you need to consider the implications of this commit by David Gwynne (dlg@) carefully.
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: dlg@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/01/31 17:31:05
Modified files:…
OpenBSD has managed to drop KDE3 and KDE4 in the
6.8 -> 6.9 release cycle. That
makes me very happy because it was a big piece of work
and long discussions.
This of course brings questions:
Kde Plasma 5 package missing.
After half a year of…
With the following
commit,
Thomas Frohwein (thfr@)
added a joystick/gamecontroller driver to -current:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: thfr@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/01/22 22:08:36
Modified files:
etc : MAKEDEV.common
…
Introduction
Pf-badhost
is a very practical, robust, stable and lightweight security script for network servers.
It’s compatible with BSD based operating systems such as {Open,Free,Net,Dragonfly}BSD and MacOS. It prevents potentially-bad IP addre…
OpenBSD developer Vadim Zhukov (zhukov@)
has added preliminary OpenBSD support to
Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio release
26.1.0
and later. The changes come as part of an ongoing collaboration between the upstream
OBS
project and OpenBSD …
With the following
commit,
Marcus Glocker (mglocker@)
added an enhanced privacy control for video recording:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mglocker@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/12/28 11:28:11
Modified files:
sys/dev : video.c …
Undeadly.org co-editor Peter Hansteen writes in, saying,
On Saturday November 7th I remote participated in OpenFest 2020 with an updated version of the OpenBSD and you talk.
Recordings will be released after the conference, but I was happy eno…
Solène Rapenne (solene@) has written a
blog entry
on the software system underlying the building of -stable packages:
In this long blog post, I will write about the technical details
of the OpenBSD stable packages building infrastruct…
On its 25th birthday,
the OpenBSD project has released
OpenBSD 6.8,
the 49th release.
The new release comes with a large number of improvements and debuts a new architecture, OpenBSD/powerpc64, running on the POWER9 family of processors. The ful…
Introduction
Hitherto, releases of the
fwobac
software (which underlies
Undeadly)
have been unsigned.
This is overdue for change, so for the latest release [version 1.7], we are providing a digital signature.
As signing is being performed manua…
Todd Mortimer (mortimer@) has
committed
RETGUARD
(see
previous
coverage)
for the macppc (powerpc) and powerpc64 platforms:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mortimer@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/10/12 08:52:09
Modified files:
gnu/llvm…