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Bigmem enabled on amd64
Since this commit:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: beck@cvs.openbsd.org 2011/04/02 11:36:45
Modified files:
sys/arch/amd64/amd64: machdep.c
Log message:
Enable bigmem by default on amd64.
ok deraadt@
amd64 machines may now use more than 4G of ram.
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pcc 1.0 Released
No April Foolery: The Portable C Compiler version 1.0 was released on April 1st!
As with so many things BSD, this project proves that good code is timeless and can benefit from literally generations of review. It can build the majority of the BSD base systems (C++ code aside) and is undergoing continuous improvement.
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OpenBSD 4.9 is available for preorder...
What is the answer to life, the universe and everything? Naturally 42. Quite different from the answer to \"what shall I pre-order today?\", as that is obviously OpenBSD 4.9, which is scheduled for release on May 1st, 2011.
This new release is again packed with lots of goodies like mandoc(1) as the groff(1) replacement, TCP send and r [...]
groff deleted from tree
On saturday, Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) deleted groff(1) from the OpenBSD source tree. This is the culmination of a lot of work by Ingo but also Kristaps Dzonsons and Joerg Sonnenberger who are responsible for the new mandoc(1).
A lot of work has gone into mandoc recently. Those of you following the source-changes@ list have probably notic [...]
Memoirs of a Network Disaster
Michael W. Lucas posted a new blog entry about one of his own harrowing experiences years ago. Helpless vendors and inadequate commercial software forced his company to turn to OpenBSD and PF for a solution to their bandwidth problem.
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One Monday morning, a customer that had expected to use very little bandwidth found that the [...]
Your OpenBSD Story – Henrik Kra...
Henrik Kramshoej looks way back at his early days with OpenBSD:
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While studying at the University of Copenhagen, DIKU.dk we used Unix systems - the sandbox it was called and I liked it. I wanted Unix at home, but at the time a SCO Unix would cost about EUR 2000 and my machine was much too small for it (Read more...)
BSDCan 2011 schedule announced
Dan Langille recently announced the schedule for BSDCan 2011. It looks like another great event, with a good lineup of OpenBSD-related talks:
Tutorial: Building the network you need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter - Peter Hansteen
Talk: How the Cart Came to Draw the Ox: the Roff Tradition and Mandoc - Kristaps Dzonsons (kristaps@)
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New Ruby benchmarks show OpenBSD impr...
NetBSD developer Jaime Fournier has published a new round of Ruby benchmarks comparing the various BSD projects and Ubuntu Linux. Some readers will remember he performed a similar test a couple of years ago. A quick review of the data reveals improvements by OpenBSD. The following is a snippet from the full report available on his website.
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Heads up! OpenBSD turns 4.9-current
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has tagged 4.9-current. That means that we are one step closer to the upcoming release. Keep an eye out for pre-orders!
From: Theo de Raadt
To: source-changes@cvs.openbsd.org
Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:58:41 -0600 (MDT)
Sender: owner-source-changes@openbsd.org
CVSROOT: [...]
Your OpenBSD Story – Nick Humph...
Nick Humphrey writes in to tell us about how he got started with OpenBSD:
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I started using OpenBSD around 2000. In early 2001 I joined a small company with an almost non-existent IT budget, so securing cash for hardware, software and support was extremely difficult. I used OpenBSD in a wide variety of roles to provide excellen [...]
Configure OpenBSD Sendmail with SASL
We recently uncovered a useful tutorial for setting up SASL with OpenBSD\'s Sendmail:
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One of the greatest challenges in migrating my server from a managed FreeBSD server to the new OpenBSD server was learning how to implement support for SASL on SMTP connections. This seems like something so elementary in a mail server that i [...]
Your OpenBSD Story – Daniel Gra...
Daniel Gracia writes in about his own experiences with OpenBSD:
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I began playing with OpenBSD with the 3.2 release. I remember that as being a great milestone: PF was just starting to gain power and ALTQ, still a separated feature, catched my curiosity. I was deploying a wifi network to share Inet access in my town, so I looke [...]
Add Color to Your Terminal
Mark Solocinski has kindly given us permission to reprint one of his recent blog posts. This is a nice quick tip for getting color "ls" output in your terminal.
Want to add some color to your shell environment? FreeBSD and most Linux distros have color options included in the "ls" utility by default. OpenBSD doesn’ [...]
Tell Us Your OpenBSD Story
As an experienced UNIX journeyman, I know how valuable it is to learn from the experiences of your peers. With this in mind, I\'ve been asking other OpenBSD users to write in and tell us their stories. We\'d like to hear how you use OpenBSD, both at work and home, for work and play. How did you get started with (Read more...)
OpenBSD booth at SCALE 9x
Just like last year, Seth Fulton writes in about the SCALE 9x event in Los Angeles this weekend:
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I\'m running the OpenBSD booth this weekend at the So Cal Linux Expo in
LA. We\'ll be peddling OpenBSD merch, talking turkey with the local
yokels, and swilling cold beverages as necessary from a cooler under
the table.
The [...]
Portable C Compiler 1.0 Branched!
Michael Dexter writes in with news about the PCC project:
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Thanks to the hard work of Anders "Ragge" Magnusson and his team plus the help of donors from around the world, the Portable C Compiler is now ready for final beta testing in preparation for its 1.0 release.
"This is the beta of the first release of p [...]
Forwarding IPTV Traffic with PF
Since the day I got my shiny new FTTH internet connection complete with IPTV, I was curious about making the TV show on my desktop. Eventually, purchasing a network based video player that was capable of playing IPTV too was the final straw - the device only has one Ethernet port and I needed that for accessing the LAN.
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Monitoring relayd(8) with Nagios
The Nagios Exchange recently added check_relayd, a new check which monitors an OpenBSD relayd(8) service for health and availability. It was written by Philip Garner of Sysnix and published on the Exchange just a couple days ago. From the description:
Comprehensive perl relayd checker.
This plugin is designed to run on a local host i [...]
Comparing Encrypted Volumes in OpenBS...
Nick Schmidt has written a series of blog posts on encrypted volumes in OpenBSD. He starts off by introducing our options and covering their limitations in OpenBSD Disk Encryption Options – softraid and svnd. Nick demonstrates how to setup and manage an encrypted RAID drive with softraid and bioctl in Configuring OpenBSD softraid for encrypt [...]
Building VPNs with OpenBSD and IPSEC
Found a new blog post from a recent tweet by @knightgats. Check out his tutorial on setting up your own site-to-site VPN with OpenBSD IPSec. This is well-covered territory, but it never hurts to see a refresher for new users.
The author walks thorugh all steps of:
Enabling the IPSec protocols in /etc/sysctl.conf
Creating your /etc/ips [...]
