Posts in category OpenBSD Journal
t2k17 Hackathon report: Ken Westerbac...
The next hackathon reports comes from Ken Westerback (krw@), who writes:
Take a university Computer Science department that thinks a room full of
OpenBSD hackers is a relaxing change from a room full of students, add
spartan residence accommodations to motivate said hackers to maximize time
in the hackroom, mix in a local host excite [...]
t2k17 Hackathon report: Jasper Lievis...
After a few quiet days, here is a new t2k17 hackathon report, from Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse. Jasper writes,
For me this hackathon could be summarised in three words: ports, ctf and vmm.
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OpenBSD Community Goes Platinum
Kenneth R Westerback (krw@ when wearing his
developer hat) wrote in to let us know:
Paypal and bitcoin donations from the OpenBSD community have
made the community the OpenBSD Foundation\'s first Platinum level
contributor for 2017!
Monthly Paypal commitments by the community are our most
reliable source of funds and thus the most us [...]
Ted Unangst on notable recent changes...
The flak reports by Ted Unangst (tedu@) continue with
part 627.
Faster forwarding
Hrvoje Popovski directed our attention to a new blog post from mpi@ discussing one improvements in the performance of the networking stack.
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t2k17 Hackathon Report: My first time...
The next t2k17 hackathon report comes from first time hackathon participant Aaron Bieber, who writes:
I have been an OpenBSD developer for just over five years now. This
was my first hackathon.
I wasn\'t sure what to expect. I knew that there would be around 40
developers, there would be hacking on OpenBSD and that I would get to
[...]
t2k17 Hackathon Report: Philip Guenth...
Next up in our series of t2k17 hackathon reports is this one from Philip Guenther:
I showed up at t2k17 with a couple hold-over diffs from e2k17 that weren\'t
stable then and hadn\'t gotten much better since, so after a red-eye
through Chicago I arrived in the hackroom, fired up my laptop and synced
trees.
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t2k17 Hackathon Report: Andrew Hewus ...
Our next hackathon report comes from Andrew Hewus Fresh, who writes:
I began this hackathon a day late due to travel for work, although that had the benefit that I had a few days before to adjust to the new timezone. It still took a couple days before my brain recovered from all the meetings I had attended the earlier (Read more...)
t2k17 Hackathon Report: No lock no cr...
The next t2k17 report comes from Martin Pieuchot (mpi@) who writes
I came to Toronto with two goals. The first one was to not do much
Network/MP hacking, the second one was to get the next milestone
towards DTrace in and the third one was to dance.
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t2k17 Hackathon Report: Ian Sutton on...
The t2k17 hackathon reports keep trickling in. Here\'s the one from Ian Sutton, who writes:
The Toronto hackathon was a complete success and went off without a hitch! I did
not get as much done as I had hoped, but definitely made up for it in other
ways. It was my first hackathon and I was pretty nervous, but (Read more...)
t2k17 Hackathon Report: Daniel Jakots...
I slacked so much that even portroach
stopped mailing the outdated ports I maintained as it noticed how pointless it
was :-)
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Kernel syspatches will soon be smalle...
It almost went unnoticed due to the 6.2-beta announcement, but Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@) just commited a very useful update to syspatch. In this commit, the groundwork is done for having syspatch update only the kernel object files that have changed. Due to KARL, the scheme to relink the kernel for each reboot, it makes sense to save spa [...]
deraadt@ moves us to 6.2-beta!
Theo has just committed the diff that marks the end of the development cycle and the beginning of the testing phase for the upcoming 6.2 release:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src [...]
RETGUARD, the OpenBSD next level in e...
In a message to the tech mailling list, Theo de Raadt(deraadt@) offered a preview of the next big thing in exploit mitigation, dubbed RETGUARD:
This year I went to BSDCAN in Ottawa. I spent much of it in the
\'hallway track\', and had an extended conversation with various people
regarding our existing security mitigations and hopes f [...]
RETGUARD, the OpenBSD next level in e...
In a message to the tech mailling list, Theo de Raadt(deraadt@) offered a preview of the next big thing in exploit mitigation, dubbed RETGUARD:
This year I went to BSDCAN in Ottawa. I spent much of it in the
\'hallway track\', and had an extended conversation with various people
regarding our existing security mitigations and hopes f [...]
Undeadly to be Upgraded Next Week
As there have been no reports of functional bugs since the last beta, and the primary goal of the work was achieved long ago, the (main) Undeadly server is to be upgraded.
The upgrade, which is expected to involve downtime of no more than one hour, is scheduled for next Tuesday, 2017-08-22 07:00 UTC.
Changes since the last public (Read mo [...]
Undeadly to be Upgraded Next Week
As there have been no reports of functional bugs since the last beta, and the primary goal of the work was achieved long ago, the (main) Undeadly server is to be upgraded.
The upgrade, which is expected to involve downtime of no more than one hour, is scheduled for next Tuesday, 2017-08-22 07:00 UTC.
Changes since the last public (Read mo [...]
t2k17 Hackathon Report: Ted Unangst O...
The second report from the just completed t2k17 hackathon
comes from Ted Unangst (tedu@), who writes:
I did a bit of this and that, but the project that probably has the most
interesting explanation has to do with pseudo terminals. This has a bit of
history behind it that goes back to the early days of unix.
Read (Read more...)
t2k17 Hackathon Report: Ted Unangst O...
The second report from the just completed t2k17 hackathon
comes from Ted Unangst (tedu@), who writes:
I did a bit of this and that, but the project that probably has the most
interesting explanation has to do with pseudo terminals. This has a bit of
history behind it that goes back to the early days of unix.
Read (Read more...)
Smartisan Makes Another Iridium Donat...
News from the OpenBSD Foundation: The Foundation has this year\'s first Iridium donor.
The official statement from the foundation, via director Ken Westerback reads,
The OpenBSD Foundation is excited to announce that it has received the
first 2017 Iridium level donation. For the second consecutive year,
Smartisan (http://www.smartisa [...]
