Posts in category OpenBSD
vis, unvis, across BSDs
I haven’t been able to say this in a while, but: I like cross-pollination.
Transparent network audio with mpd &a...
Landry Breuil (landry@ when wearing his developer hat) wrote
in…
I\'ve been a huge fan of MPD over the
years to centralize my audio collection, and i\'ve been using it with the
http output to stream the music as a radio on the computer i\'m currently
using…
Read more…
In Other BSDs for 2018/04/07
Losing power at home this week put a dent in my reading throughput, so to speak, but this will do.
DragonFFI: FFI/JIT for the C language using Clang/LLVM. Not actually related to DragonFly or really BSD, but I like the synchronicity. (via)
Simplifying Linux with … fish? Or BSD.
New BSDMag issue – with a feature (Read more...)
OpenBSD 6.3 Released
April 2, 2018: The OpenBSD
project has announced the availability of the newest release,
OpenBSD 6.3:
We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 6.3.
This is our 44th release. We remain proud of OpenBSD\'s record of more
than twenty years with only two remote holes in the default install.
Notable changes include:
[...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/03/31
Happy Almost Fool’s Easter Day! I have to be at work in a few hours, at 3 AM, so this is all I was able to find in the time I have.
Re: door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD? (via)
Userland PCI drivers. NetBSD. (via)
A nice note about OpenBSD right on the Void Linux (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/03/24
One of these links is a warning, but you won’t know until it’s too late.
OPNSense 18.1.5 released.
Happy 25th birthday NetBSD!
NetBSD 7.1.2 out.
Gaming on DFly.
ed(1) is Turing-Complete. (via)
Email Configuration for plan9 Acme on OpenBSD. (via)
Dolch PAC 64.
“SSH Mastery, 2nd ed” in hardcover (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/03/17
The first news item about pfSense is not necessarily new, but new to me.
The next major release of pfSense is going to be significantly different. (other info)
OpenBSD Gaming Resource, PDF from a previous comment here.
PkgsrcCon 2018. (via)
What is your experience with Dragonfly as a user desktop?
speaking at mug.org (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/03/10
It’s a week for good quotes to pull from linked stories.
Interview with MidnightBSD Founder and Lead Dev Lucas Holt. (via)
Meltdown-mitigation syspatch/errata now available. For OpenBSD.
a2k18 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on dhclient and more.
John Carmack on OpenBSD, C++ & machine learning. “Linux is a lot of things, [...]
Stack-register Checking
Recently, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
described
a new type of mitigation he has been working on together with Stefan Kempf (stefan@):
How about we add another new permission! This is not a hardware
permission, but a software permission. It is opportunistically
enforced by the kernel.
[...]
Mike Larkin at bhyvecon 2018: OpenBSD...
Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) has just given a presentation at
bhyvecon Tokyo 2018.
The slides are now
available (as PDF).
In addition to the excellent summary of the state-of-play for
vmm
and friends, the presentation offers a tantalizing glimpse at possible future
directions.
syspatches will be provided for both ...
Good news for people doing upgrades only once per year: syspatches will be provided for both supported releases. The commit from T.J. Townsend (tj@) speaks for itself:
Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: www
From: T.J. Townsend <tj () openbsd ! org>
Date: 2018-03-06 22:09:12
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: www
Changes [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/03/03
The first link about TorBSD is important: many of the major security issues in computing trace back to having only one vendor or product or whatever, used by everyone.
An Open Letter to BSD-powered Companies and Projects. (via)
NetBSD GPU support (Intel HD 4400).
Device Driver Development for BSD.
Hypervisor on dfly?
Unfortunately, StackOve [...]
a2k18 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerbac...
Ken Westerback (krw@) has sent in the first report from the (recently concluded) a2k18 hackathon:
YYZ -> YVR -> MEL -> ZQN -> CHC -> DUD -> WLG -> AKL -> SYD -> BNE -> YVR -> YYZ.
Whew.
Once in Dunedin the hacking commenced. The background was a regular
tick of new meltdown diffs to test in (Read more. [...]
LLDB restoration and return to ptrace...
I\'ve managed to unbreak the LLDB debugger as much as possible with the current kernel
and hit problems with ptrace(2) that are causing issues with
further work on proper NetBSD support.
Meanwhile, I\'ve upstreamed all the planned NetBSD patches to sanitizers and helped other BSDs to gain better or initial support.
LLDB
Since the last time [...]
Meltdown-mitigation syspatch/errata n...
The recent changes in -current mitigating the Meltdown vulnerability have been backported to the
6.1 and
6.2
(amd64) releases, and the
syspatch update (for 6.2) is now available.
Happy syspatching, and don\'t forget to show your appreciation by
donating to the project.
In Other BSDs for 2018/02/24
Another across-the-BSDs week.
What’s Next for Feature Development in FreeNAS/TrueNAS?
Description of the 1969 proto-Unix system based on a 2812 line PDP-7 assembly kernel. (via)
The Known Costs of Security Embargoes.
Military Grade Data Wiping In FreeBSD With BCWipe.
“Has Linux lost its way?” comments prompt Debian developer to revisit Fr [...]
Meltdown fix committed by guenther@
Meltdown mitigation is coming to OpenBSD. Philip Guenther (guenther@) has just committed a diff that implements a new mitigation technique to OpenBSD: Separation of page tables for kernel and userland. This fixes the Meltdown problems that affect most CPUs from Intel. Both Philip and Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) spent a lot of time implementing [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/02/17
Reached overflow again! That secretly makes me happy.
Discord channels for BSD’s?
SemiBUG’s speaker schedule for the next few months is published. Note next meeting is on the 20th.
SVS to mitigate meltdown. (NetBSD)
Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD. Another FOSDEM video, which I note because [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/02/10
Very much last-minute; compiled 20 minutes before bed Friday night.
a2k18 Hackathon preview: Syncookies coming to PF. (via)
An Empirical Study on the Reliability of UNIX Utilities (1989). Some of it is early BSD. How much still applies? (via)
The Origin of the word Daemon. (via)
“SSH Mastery 2/e” copyedits back (Read more... [...]
a2k18 Hackathon preview: Syncookies c...
As you may have heard, the a2k18 hackathon is in progress. As can be seen from the commit messages, several items of goodness are being worked on.
One eagerly anticipated item is the arrival of TCP syncookies (read: another important tool in your anti-DDoS toolset) in PF. Henning Brauer (henning@) added the code in a series of commits (R [...]
