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WiFi: 11n hostap mode added to athn(4...
OpenBSD as WiFi access points look set to be making a comeback in the near future.
With this diff https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=148396652007923&w=2, Stefan Sperling added 802.11n hostap mode, with full support initially for the Atheros chips supported by the athn(4) driver.
This diff adds 11n support to the athn(4) dri [...]
Get your name in the relayd book
Michael W Lucas is offering the chance to get your name in his forthcoming book on relayd and httpd:
There’s a long tradition amongst science fiction writers of selling bit parts in books in exchange for charity donations. It’s called tuckerization.
I see no reason why science fiction writers should have all the fun.
I need a sample use [...]
Ted Unangst on (more) notable recent ...
Ted Unangst (tedu@) continues his flak series with part 5.
Peter Hansteen on OpenBSD and you
Undeadly editor Peter Hansteen (pitrh) recently spoke to the Bergen (BSD and) Linux User Group (BLUG) on the subject "OpenBSD and you", and has shared the slides from the talk.
These make a great resource for preaching to the as-yet-unconverted.
OpenSSH 7.4 released!
A new version of OpenSSH has been announced. Continue reading for the changelog of OpenSSH 7.4 below:
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LibreSSL documentation status report
Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) writes in:
You may have noticed that i have been working on LibreSSL documentation
for a bit more than a month now. Actually, there already is an
undeadly report about the first week of that work:
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20161114174451
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Kristaps Dzonsons on pledge(2)
Kristaps Dzonsons, of mandoc and acme-client (and more) fame, has written a detailed article entitled "why pledge(2) …or, how I learned to love web application sandboxing".
The tl;dr section starts:
For practical web applications, pledge(2) presents the best compromise of development simplicity and security coverage. Thi [...]
OpenBSD Foundation Welcomes First Iri...
Today\'s big news comes from the OpenBSD Foundation, via director Ken Westerback. The official word from the foundation is:
The OpenBSD Foundation is excited to announce that it has received
its largest ever donation. Smartisan (http://www.smartisan.com) has
become our first Iridium level donor with a donation
of CDN$280,000.00.
S [...]
Ted Unangst on notable recent changes...
Ted Unangst (tedu@) has written a flak entry entitled "openbsd changes of note".
It gives an overview (with relevant links) of recent significant changes in -current.
Update: there is now a second part.
Update: there is now a third part.
l2k16 hackathon report: LibreSSL manu...
The first report out of the just completed l2k16 (LibreSSL focused) hackathon comes from Ingo Schwarze, who writes:
Hackathons are great for starting or finishing tasks.
This time, for me, finishing it was.
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b2k16 hackathon report: Daniel Jakots...
The next b2k16 hackathon report comes from Daniel Jakots, who writes:
This was my second hackathon (after p2k16). I was looking forward to
it as I had a really great time in Nantes.
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OpenBSD funding request from interest...
New contributor doctrit writes,
An interesting news article title caught my attention and I was pleasantly surprised to find OpenBSD having a prominent place within the article\'s content. 8^)
- 4 open source initiatives that need your help
We (editors@) of course agree with the article author that our favorite operating system is [...]
b2k16 hackathon report: Antoine Jacou...
The first report from the b2k16 hackathon comes from Antoine Jacoutot, who writes:
I was so happy to go back to Budapest for a hackathon. I\'ve been there more
times than I can count and it\'s an awesome city made even more awesome thanks to
our host robert@ !
I arrived late the eve of the event along with other (Read more...)
b2k16 hackathon report: Jeremy Evans ...
Your next b2k16 report comes form Jeremy Evans, who writes:
I started off b2k16 by channeling tedu@, and removing a lot of
ports, including lang/ruby/2.0, lang/io, convertors/ruby-json,
databases/dbic++, databases/ruby-swift, databases/ruby-jdbc-*,
x11/ruby-profiligacy, and mail/ruby-mailfactory.
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vmm enabled
With a small commit, OpenBSD now has a hypervisor and virtualization in-tree. This has been a lot of hard work by Mike Larkin, Reyk Flöter, and many others.
VMM requires certain hardware features (Intel Nehalem or later, and virtualization enabled in the BIOS) in order to provide VM services, and currently only supports OpenBSD gues [...]
OpenBSD 6.0 Limited Edition CD set (s...
Five OpenBSD 6.0 CD-ROM copies were signed by 40 developers during the
g2k16 Hackathon in Cambridge, UK. These copies are being auctioned sequentially on ebay.
CD set #1 (Sep 29th + 5 days) sold for $4200
CD set #2 (Oct 4th + 3 days) sold for $3000
CD set #3 (Oct 8th + 3 days) sold for $817
CD set (Read more...)
g2k16 Hackathon Report: Alexander Blu...
Alexander Bluhm (bluhm@) contributed our next report (which even includes a picture):
Big plans what to do at a hackathon don\'t work. There is always
something unexpected that requires your attention. So I was expecting
the unexpected. The TCP send performance has dropped to a very low
throughput in some environments. It was prett [...]
g2k16 Hackathon Report: Patrick Wildt...
The g2k16 hackathon must have been a really great one, because here is yet another report, this time from Patrick Wildt, who writes:
I knew that if I had any plans for the hackathon, they would have been
thrown out of the window as soon as I arrived there. That was a good
plan actually, since exactly that happened.
Read (Read [...]
g2k16 Hackathon Report: Martin Pieuc...
The g2k16 hackathon reports keep coming, and we love it! In this fresh report, Martin Pieuchot writes,
Since some years now, I cannot attend a hackathon without having to deal
with a USB problem. It\'s generally a bug that one of the hackers in the
room can expose with his hardware. But in Cambridge it was different!
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Ted Unangst on “doas mastery...
Ted Unangst (tedu@) has written an item regarding doas:
It’s been a year since the introduction of doas, so it’s clearly time to write a book. Or maybe a pamphlet.
See his flak entry for the full story (and bear in mind he\'s referring to -current at the time of writing).
