Posts in category OpenBSD
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 [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/08/19
I think I managed to avoid any theme this week.
Smartisan Makes Another Iridium Donation to the OpenBSD Foundation. A phone manufacturer I was not familiar with.
Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum.
“If you do all the work, you can perform magic. But if you are asking others to help, nope.” (via)
How to BSD (Read more...)
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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
t2k17 Hackathon Report: Bob Beck on b...
The first report from the just completed t2k17 hackathon comes from Bob Beck, who writes:
Unusually I had basically nothing to do with organizing this year, I
let krw@ do all the dirty work, which was good since life has been a
bit crazy over the last couple months with things keeping me from
openbsd.
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In Other BSDs for 2017/08/12
Questions are this week’s accidental theme.
Beta Update – Request for (more) Testing. (undeadly)
UMPC compatible with BSD’s?
Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD (v2). (via)
Any BSD with Skylake and Gnome?
openbsd changes of note 626.
htop. Mentioned because there is at least a passing BSD reference.
BSDCam 2017 Trip Rep [...]
Beta Update – Request for (more...
https://beta.undeadly.org/ has received an update. The most significant changes include:
The site has been given a less antiquated "look".
(As the topic icons have been eliminated, we are no longer seeking help with those graphics.)
The site now uses a moderate amount of semantic HTML5.
Several bugs in the HTML fragment vali [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/08/05
Spot the sarcasm!
FreeBSD 11.1 released.
Default compiler switched to clang on amd64 and i386. (OpenBSD)
Large Batch of Kernel Errata Patches Released. (also OpenBSD)
mandoc-1.14.2 released.
OPNsense 17.7 released.
hurray we won
X11: How does “the” clipboard work? (via)
LLVM, Clang and compiler-rt support enhancements. (NetBSD) (via)
Re [...]
Large Batch of Kernel Errata Patches ...
In response to the DEF CON presentation by Ilja van Sprundel,
a large set of kernel patches have been released (for OpenBSD 6.0 and 6.1).
These important patches should be applied ASAP!
From the announce@ mailing list:
Errata patches for a number of kernel issues have been released for
OpenBSD 6.1 and 6.0.
Read more...
mandoc-1.14.2 released
Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) writes in saying:
i just released portable mandoc-1.14.2.
It is available now from http://mandoc.bsd.lv/.
The whole message reads,
Read more...
Default compiler switched to clang on...
With this commit, the default compiler for (-current base system on the) amd64 and i386 platforms has been changed to clang(1):
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: robert@cvs.openbsd.org 2017/07/26 13:44:42
Modified files:
share/mk : bsd.own.mk
Log message:
switch the default compiler on amd64 and i386 to clang,
[...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/07/22
It’s accidental how-to week!
OpenSMTPD under OpenBSD with SSL/VirtualUsers/Dovecot (via) and
OpenSMTPD and Dovecot under OpenBSD with MySQL support and SPAMD. (via)
Introducing anvil – Tools for distributing ssl certificates, plus examples of usage on FreeBSD.
OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X.
Add vmctl send and vmctl receive.
openbsd [...]
Add vmctl send and vmctl receive
As we see from the commit message, new developer Pratik Vyas (pd@) adds the ability to do paused VM migrations for VMM.
Mike Larkin also writes on Twitter:
#OpenBSD vmctl(8) : vmctl send myvm | ssh mlarkin@somewhere.com vmctl receive Yes, it's that easy.
Ed: this is *paused* migrations, not live migrations.
In Other BSDs for 2017/07/15
Backlog: cleared.
Elvish: friendly and expressive shell for Linux, macOS and BSDs. Linked just because they bothered to mention BSD. (via)
acme.sh: getting free SSL certificates – installation configuration on FreeBSD.
Writing a NetBSD kernel module. (via)
ZFS Is the Best Filesystem (For Now…) (via)
Building an IPsec Gateway With OpenBSD [...]
OpenBSD and the modern laptop
Over at his blog, Undeadly co-editor Peter Hansteen describes the experience of installing OpenBSD-current on a new laptop.
The article, OpenBSD and the modern laptop, goes into some detail on the install procedure, and hits only minor snags even when using modern and recent additions such as UEFI boot.
The conclusion is that OpenBSD i [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/07/08
This one wrote itself almost in one night from articles I had stored up.
Latest blog post – UEFI multi-boot setup with Linux and most of the BSDs! (via)
State of graphics support across BSDs
Daemons and friendly Ninjas. (via)
FreeBSD 11.1-RC1 out.
Kernel relinking status from Theo de Raadt.
On the Insecurity (Read more...)
