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…
I should have set this to post at 10:10AM GMT. OpenBSD Amsterdam Podcast interview. (via) duf – a user friendly alternative to df. Works on BSD. (via) Old School Disk Partitioning. (via) Why the Unix newgrp command exists (sort of), How the Unix newgrp command behaved back in V7 Unix, and People still use newgrp (to my surprise), touching …
No theme, but lots to read. Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current. (via) OpenBSD on Desktop (Part I) and OpenBSD on Desktop (Part II). (via and via) FreeBSD Journal 2020/07-08 – Benchmarking/Tuning. I keep missing the new issues; no RSS feed. (via) FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 Available. “Even if you’ve never heard of OpenSSH, you’ve also …
Ingo (schwarze@) writes in about a side project he’s been working on to do his own accounting:
Sometimes, it happens to me that i make little progress with the
work i planned to do (so let’s not talk about the badly needed
mandoc release today)…
Straight dump of my BSD RSS feed. On the use of a life. A BSD business. FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020. (via) FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 1 Why? Related: Subversion and Git on FreeBSD. (video, via) k2k20 hackathon reports: Florian Obser on DNS, Klemens Nanni on network land decluttering, Bob Beck on LibreSSL progress, and Martijn van …
Fresh off the k2k20 hackathon, Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@)
writes in:
Due to the pandemic, this hackathon seemed to be called very spontaneously.
Fortunately, the hackathon was over a weekend. This enabled me to attend
without missing any prof…
The fourth report from k2k20 comes from Florian Obser (florian@), who worked mostly on DNS related things:
I spent the week before the hackathon with monitoring the current
pandemic situation. Will ze germans let me in? Will I put people at
risk?…
Our next k2k20 report comes from Klemens Nanni (kn@):
I’d been looking forward to k2k20 just like my
other hackathon with its unique
atmosphere where getting work done in fact means holiday hacking with friends.
There was nothing big on my l…
Fresh off the just-finished k2k20 hackathon, here is a report from Bob Beck
(beck@):
We have a saying about hackathons – They are for starting something,
or for finishing something. This time for me was a "finishing
something" – I land…
The
k2k20 hackathon
concluded recently, and we are please to have
received a report from Martijn van Duren (martijn@):
I came to k2k20 on my motorcycle with my mask, a small backpack and a
stack of projects burning on my laptop to get pushed. A…
With
this commit,
Martijn van Duren (martijn@)
added
login_ldap(8)
to -current:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: martijn@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/09/12 09:06:12
Modified files:
libexec : Makefile
Added files:
libexec/lo…
Perhaps a performance tweaks mini-theme this week? Valuable News – 2020/09/07. OPNsense 20.7.2 Released. Quare FreeBSD? FreeBSD Mini Git Primer. (via) Install OpenBSD 6.7 with Disk Encryption and FVWM Ricing. Note for non-English speakers: “ricing” is a derogatory term. (via) NetBSD Tips and Tricks. (via) OpenBSD/FreeBSD performance. Beginner’s Guide to FreeBSD. More of an overview. …
It’s a good mix this week. ChiBUG’s next meeting is in a few days, the 8th. I’ll post about it again. FreeBSD 11.3 EOL. Modernizing the OpenBSD console. Valuable News – 2020/08/31. FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync. 6.8-beta tagged in CVS. (OpenBSD) PPP Over a WiFi232. Incidentally, how to run a PPP server in …
Theo (deraadt@) has just committed the crank to 6.8-beta to CVS
From: Theo de Raadt
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 10:08:28 -0600 (MDT)
To: source-changes@openbsd.org
Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Chang…
Frederic Cambus (fcambus@) has published an article on his blog about the work that has been done to improve the text-console experience on OpenBSD. Well worth a read if, as a proper UNIX-sysadmin, you enjoy working in a text-only environment; but al…
Started this with overflow from last week. New fnaify games: Eagle Island, Ruggnar, Camera Obscura. Trademarks disputes in tech. Linked for NetBSD mention. Android debugging in OpenBSD. Speed up pkgsrc on retrocomputers. (via) Important parts of Unix’s history happened before readline support was common. Bringing zpool checkpoints to a FreeBSD bootloader. Sandbox for FreeBSD. (via) …
More than six years ago,
LibreSSL was forked from
OpenSSL, and almost two years ago,
i explained the status of LibreSSL documentation during
EuroBSDCon
2018 in Bucuresti.
So it seems providing an update might be in order.
Read more…
Check the BSDCan videos this week; there’s more than a day’s worth of material right there. BSDCan 2020 videos. (via) File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness. Not only BSD. (via) My views on some conventions for Unix command line options, followed by Unix options conventions are just that, which makes them products …