Posts in category OpenBSD
In Other BSDs for 2017/09/23
Thank goodness for overflow from last week, because I haven’t had time to read.
OpenBSD Daily Recap.
pfsense vs opnsense vs monowall vs smoothwall vs ?
*nix distros with default shells? Not actually sure what the author’s goal is.
X11 forwarding vs. Virtual Machine.
Lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD. (via)
AMD RX 480 Support?
[NetBSD] [...]
How to find disk I/O latency with iop...
How do I monitor disk I/O latency in real time on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and MacOS operating system?
In Other BSDs for 2017/09/16
Not sure why, but there’s been a lot of BSD news the past few weeks. I am OK with that.
FreeBSD package management with Pkg (2/2).
[Semibug] next meeting: BSD accessibility.
I3 instances and NVMe: booya! Or how you can build FreeBSD from the source in under 11 minutes vs. 12+ hours on a desktop. Is there something (Read more...)
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 [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/09/09
Already overflowed to next week.
New story: Savaged by Systemd. Lucas, what hast thou wrought?
A few questions about BSD
FreeBSD package management with Pkg (1/2). Applies to DragonFly, too.
OpenBSD Community goes platinum.
OPNsense 17.7.1 released.
FreeBSD 10.4-BETA3 Available.
A Brief History of Solaris (SunOS) Ports. Technically a BSD. [...]
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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In Other BSDs for 2017/09/02
Lots of links this week – so many I’ve already started next week’s post.
FreeBSD 10.4-BETA available. I’m prewriting this part of the post so there may be a new beta by the time this publishes.
Introducing sandboxfs.
“TIL GhostBSD has a patreon” (via)
OpenBSD rtables and rdomains. (via)
Setting up (Rea [...]
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.
In Other BSDs for 2017/08/26
The new look on undeadly.org sure is nice.
RETGUARD, the OpenBSD next level in exploit mitigation, is about to debut.
Can a BSD system replicate the performance of high-end router appliance? Benchmarking would A: show the answer and B: I bet show that the throughput needs of the poster were not as high as they thought.
Which Unix (Read mor [...]
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 [...]
