Developer Otto Moerbeek (otto@)
has
been
working
on
support
to
boot
from
FFS2. He writes in with the below article, to give us a little insight into the challenges he faced while working on this.
FFS2 filesystem support has been in Open…
I had the pleasure of
sitting with Bob Beck
at EuroBSDCon
2018 in Bucharest and asking him some questions about the
OpenBSD Project, its approaches and some of his favourite
aspects of the Operating System and its projects. Bob
patiently outline…
We have a new p2k19 report from Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@),
who writes:
My first OpenBSD hackathon
When
p2k19
was announced, I was quite happy that it was located in Bucharest.
A quick check of flight connections, showed that there is a di…
Ken Westerback (krw@) kindly wrote in with a report
from last month’s
a2k20
hackathon in Hobart, Australia:
tl;dr — excellent coffee fuelled lots of hacking in Hobart
I started my journey to Hobart via Sydney in a state of some anxiety.
A…
Ken Westerback [krw@ when wearing his OpenBSD hat]
wrote us with this update about the
OpenBSD Foundation’s work:
As the OpenBSD Foundation begins to prepare the 2020 fundraising
campaign we would like to thank all the contributors to our 2019
…
Video recordings from
FOSDEM 2020
are now available.
The OpenBSD presentations were:
Giovanni Bechis (giovanni@) – OpenSMTPD over the clouds,
the story of an HA setup
Florian Obser (florian@) – unwind(8),
A privilege-separated, validating D…
Fresh in from u2k20 is this report from Tracey Emery, who visited the hackathon in Uckermark, Germany after getting invited by Stefan Sperling (stsp@):
Stefan Sperling and I started a discussion in November about a CGI program, which would work in ht…
The first report from the just concluded u2k20 hackathon comes from Alexandr Nedvedicky (sashan@), who writes:
How to read a commit message (a.k.a. thank you Thomas for u2k20)
Commit messages just capture the brief summary of changes. Believe i…
An update has now been committed to the -stable branch for the latest firefox version, and the package is available for updating!
Previously, solene@ wrote:
Dear OpenBSD users, due to Firefox being too complicated to package (thanks to cbindgen an…
Solene@ writes:
Dear OpenBSD users, due to Firefox being too complicated to package (thanks to cbindgen and rust dependencies) on the stable branch (as this would require testing all rust consumers), the 6.6-stable branch won’t receive updates for ww…
Tom Smyth writes in about an interview he did with Theo de Raadt in between g2k19, the general hackathon in Ottawa, and BSDCAN 2019:
Have you ever wondered about the whys and the hows Theo and his friends in OpenBSD relentlessly pursue security p…
Next up from the snowy Elk Lakes area with his Hackathon Report is Stefan Sperling (stsp@):
My hike to the Elk Lakes hut was more pleasent this time compared to
last time (s2k17).
Partly because the weather was better overall this time around.
A…
The
Internet Security Research Group
and partners
have announced
that Claudio Jeker (claudio@) is the third
Radiant Award
recipient.
From the
announcement:
We’re excited to announce the third Radiant Award recipient, Claudio Jeker.
When we…
Alexandr Nedvedicky (sashan@)
wrote to tech@
regarding a recent significant
change:
Hello,
commit from today [1] makes IP stack more paranoid. Up to now OpenBSD
implemented so called ‘weak host model’ [2]. The today’s commit alters
that for…
Fresh from the just concluded e2k19 hackathon, Claudio Jeker (claudio@) writes in:
After 2 years it was once again time to pack skis and snowshoes,
put a satellite dish onto a sledge and hike through the snowy rockies
to the Elk Lakes hut.
…
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has
committed
code for a new exploit-prevention mechanism:
[…]
Repurpose the "syscalls must be on a writeable page" mechanism to
enforce a new policy: system calls must be in pre-registered regions.
We…
Florian Obser (florian@) has
committed
code to give
unwind(8)
a flexible approach to resolving strategies:
Modified files:
sbin/unwind : resolver.c resolver.h
usr.sbin/unwindctl: unwindctl.c
Log message:
Instead of only considering…
Next up in our hackathon series from p2k19 is one from Stefan Sperling (stsp@),
who writes:
My main goal for the p2k19 hackathon was 9260 device support in iwm(4).
Firmware updates for previous device generation were an important
prerequisite st…
Next up in the series of p2k19 reports is Ken Westerback (krw@), who writes:
tl;dr – Great City, Great Coffee, Great Hacking. I already miss Bucharest.
Read more…
Our next p2k19 report comes from Jeremy Evans (jeremy@):
While I had originally planned to attend the entire hackathon,
circumstances changed and I was only able to make it there for a few
days. Still, I was able to get some work done.
Read …