Posts in category OpenBSD
In Other BSDs for 2018/10/20
Well, I cleared my tab backlog, but not my RSS backlog…
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Kagawa. (via)
OpenBSD’s unveil(). (via)
OpenBSD on the Desktop: some thoughts. (via)
Fuzzing the OpenBSD Kernel.
vmm(4) gets support for qcow2.
n2k18 Hackathon report: Ken Westerback (krw@) on disklabel(8) work, dhclient(8) [...]
OpenBSD Foundation gets a second Irid...
Ken Westerback (krw@ when wearing his dev hat) wrote in with some great news:
The OpenBSD Foundation is excited to announce that it has received a second 2018 Iridium level (>$100K) donation from Handshake.
Read more…
OpenBSD 6.4 Released
The release of OpenBSD 6.4 has been
announced:
We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 6.4.
This is our 45th release. We remain proud of OpenBSD\'s record of more
than twenty years with only two remote holes in the default install.
[…]
Rather than reproducing the full list of new features here, we refer [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/10/13
Still playing catchup with links.
FreeBSD and OpenBSD fundraisers from Michael W. Lucas.
One-liners for submitting your dmesg to NYCBUG. There’s other versions in that thread; I linked to the last described.
Configuration of OpenSMTPD to relay mails to outbound smtp server.
Let’s Try on OpenBSD: CrossCode and Stardew Valley Mult [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/10/06
Still catching up on links.
garbage 43. The RSS feed may have changed? I should have seen this directly. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 and NetBSD sanitizers. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 travel report and obligatory pics. (via)
NetBSD curses ripoffline improvements. (via)
Installing Hugo and publishing Hugo web-pages on OpenBSD server (Read more...)
BSDNow 266: File Type History
BSDNow 266 is up, and while the title is “File Type History”, there’s a number of “this is how I use BSD” stories on there, which I always find interesting.
New mandoc feature: -T html -O toc
Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) writes in about fresh developments in mandoc(1):
During EuroBSDCon 2018 in Bucuresti, Adam Kalisz suggested to add
a table of contents near the top of the HTML output of mandoc,
and i just implemented and committed that.
Read more…
In Other BSDs for 2018/09/29
EuroBSDCon 2018 unfortunately had no video, but the presentations are showing up online.
FreeBSD bhyve live migration coming soon. (thanks, subbsd)
Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD. (via)
OpenBSD netcat demystified. (via)
OpenBSD and Diving. The SCUBA kind. (via)
Spoiler alert for BSD packet filter profiling.
r/openbsd_gaming’s G [...]
EuroBSDcon 2018 slides available
EuroBSDcon 2018
is now over, and slides for OpenBSD-related presentations are now available
from the
usual place.
As always, there\'s some great reading there (especially for those of us
who were unable to attend the conference).
Unfortunately, there will not be any video this year.
In Other BSDs for 2018/09/22
Still running on extra links from previous weeks. Usually it takes a larger convention to cause this sort of backlog.
Exploring NomadBSD – Desktop FreeBSD on a thumb drive. (via)
Mac-like FreeBSD Laptop. Surprisingly similar, visually. (via) Also some comments here.
A FreeBSD 11 Desktop How-to. (via)
“How install a (Read m [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/09/15
Built almost entirely with overflow from more than a week ago.
GSoC 2018 Reports: Configuration files versioning in pkgsrc, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. (via)
NextCloud on OpenBSD. (via)
Anon Games, BSD games available freely through ssh. Or telnet, but don’t do that. (via)
Let’s (Read more...)
n2k18 Hackathon report: Ken Westerbac...
Fresh from the just concluded n2k18 hackathon comes this report from Ken Westerback
(krw@),
who writes:
How to travel from Dresden to Usti nad Labem for free!
No drama flying to Dresen, from which a train would take me to n2k18\'s
home in Usti nad Labem. Other than being puzzled that it costs less to
fly YYZ -> (Read more...)
vmm(4) gets support for qcow2
In a
short
series
of
commits,
Carlos Cardenas (ccardenas@) added support for
qcow2
image support to vmd(8).
[This builds on an
earlier commit
adding support for pluggable disk backends.]
The code was written by Ori Bernstein, who posted his diffs (thread 1, thread 2) to the tech@openbsd.org mailing list in August.
Read more&hell [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/09/08
I am having trouble keeping up with BSD news items. This is a good problem to have.
The History of a Security Hole. Cross-BSD. (via)
hard state soft state confusion. A followup on the previous link.
NetBSD 7.2 is out. More than one branch is supported, if you find yourself saying “didn’t 8 just release?”
(Read more... [...]
Fuzzing the OpenBSD Kernel
Anton Lindqvist (anton@) gave a talk at
BSD Users Stockholm Meetup #3 on the kernel coverage tracing kit he committed recently.
Slides
are now available via the
OpenBSD Events and Papers page.
The slides contain a list of bugs found and fixed as a result of this work.
See also:
kcov(4)
In Other BSDs for 2018/09/01
Lots of event notices in here… Watch for what’s near you.
The next KnoxBUG meeting is September 5th, with a Trident demo. I’ll post a reminder.
OpenBSD.Amsterdam. Dedicated OpenBSD/vmd servers, which is a neat idea. Could probably do the same thing with vkernels.
MeetBSD is happening October 19-20 in Santa Clara, CA. (v [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/08/25
Still haven’t cleared my backlog of links…
“DISABLE HYPERTHREADING ON ALL YOUR INTEL MACHINES IN THE BIOS.” You should not be surprised by this. (via)
X11 on really small devices. There’s video, though it’s a .mov file and so could also be on YouTube.
mandoc-1.14.4 released.
NetBSD machines at Open Sour [...]
OpenBSD Foundation gets first 2018 Ir...
Ken Westerback (krw@ when wearing his dev hat) wrote in with
some great news:
The OpenBSD Foundation
is excited to announce that it has received
the first 2018 Iridium level donation. This year the first $100K+
donation came from
Handshake (https://www.handshake.org).
We thank Handshake for its very generous support! This donation
wi [...]
Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Int...
In a
message to tech@,
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
gives an update on the state-of-play regarding processor vulnerabilities:
Two recently disclosed hardware bugs affected Intel cpus:
- TLBleed
- T1TF (the name "Foreshadow" refers to 1 of 3 aspects of this
bug, more aspects are surely on the way)
Solving t [...]
Fix for L1TF issue in Intel CPUs comm...
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has
committed
a diff to mitigate the
"Intel L1TF screwup" for the amd64 platform we reported on earlier:
From: Theo de Raadt (elided)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:04:41 -0600 (MDT)
To: source-changes@openbsd.org
Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes [...]
