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Open Source Mergers and the Circle of UNIX

Ironically, the story of UNIX is also one of the reasons I believe that the GPL's terms are unnecessary for the proliferation of software freedom. The BSD license enabled proprietary forks, which arguably enabled innovation that wouldn't have happened otherwise. In fact, it's still (...)

Installing OpenBSD

Craig Heffner writes: I've used OpenBSD once before, when I installed it as a home server. I had little experience with *nix systems at the time, and had to use “Absolute OpenBSD” by Michael Lucas to even get it installed. I eventually switched over to Debian as it's a bit more (...)

SoC: First preview of NetBSD with ATF

jmmvon writes: I have just uploaded some NetBSD-current release builds with ATF merged in. These will ease testing to the casual user who is interested in this project because he will not need to mess with patches to the NetBSD source tree nor rebuild a full release, which is a delicate and (...)

Two articles on pkgsrc on Solaris and Linux

Issue 5/2007 of the German freeX magazine has two articles on pkgsrc, one focussing on Solaris, the other one on Linux.

Exploiting Concurrency Vulnerabilities in System Call Wrappers, and the Evil Genius

University of Cambridge researcher Robert Watson has published a paper at the First USENIX Workshop On Offensive Technology in which he describes serious vulnerabilities in OpenBSD's Systrace, Sudo, Sysjail, the TIS GSWTK framework, and CerbNG. The technique is also effective against many (...)

AXIGEN Announces its First Gold Partner in China

Bucharest, August 9th, 2007 – AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com ), the professional mail server vendor, announced today the closure of a partnership agreement with the China based company, Xinyu Mathphy Technologies (http://www.continentbridge.com ). Now at version 4.0.1, AXIGE runs on (...)

"Modular Data Center In A Box" Is "Best Clustering Platform"

Coyote Point Systems, Inc., the leading provider of server load balancing systems, and iXsystems, a leading provider of enterprise servers for open source, announced that their "Modular Data Center In A Box" Aral Cluster Platform solution has been recognized as a finalist for LinuxWorld (...)

Virtually Speaking: Taking a Bite of the Apple

The Mac may have a reputation for being cutting edge, but when it comes to applications, it all too often gets the short end of the stick. Virtualization is no exception to this. This week, VMware took steps to change that: It stamped VMware Fusion gold. Aimed primarily at desktop users, the (...)

MidnightBSD 0.1-RELEASE

MidnightBSD 0.1-RELEASE is now available. It includes several software packages such as ksh, sudo, OpenNTPD, gcc 3.4.4, BIND 9.3.4 (plus patch) and others in the base system. Disc 1 ISO includes the entire Operating System and X11 (xorg 6.9) packages. Disc 2 ISO includes a selection of (...)

OpenCON 2007 // Call For Sponsors

OpenCON is the only conference fully dedicated to OpenBSD. Last year's edition was a great success and featured also the party for OpenBSD 10th birthday, with project leader Theo de Raadt and a lot of developers. We would like to be able to meet your expectations and go beyond them this year (...)

Customizing an OpenBSD install

One of OpenBSD's cool features is the install process itself. It's fast and customizable. I often have the need to install identical OpenBSD systems, such as firewalls or cluster members and the install process makes this extremely easy. Every fileset that you can choose through the OpenBSD (...)

CrissCross 0.6.5

CrissCross is a small cross-platform C++ library for console and file I/O, fast data structures, CPU identification (CPUID), and sockets (TCP and UDP). The main goal is to provide the ability to write a program using identical calls on the major platforms (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, (...)

OpenBSD team mocked at first ever ‘Pwnie’ awards

The OpenBSD team has won an award for the most spectacular “mishandling” of a critical security vulnerability. Here's why: The OpenBSD team refused to acknowledge the bug as a security vulnerability and issued a “reliability fix” for it. A week later Core Security had (...)

FreeBSD high reliability rankings in July 2007

FreeBSD occupies 3 of the 4 top positions according to netcraft reliability survey.

Leopard gets UNIX 03 certification

"OS X's commercial credentials recently got a major boost from the Open Group. Thanks to the efforts of Apple's OS boss Kevin Van Vechten and his team, Leopard has cleared all of the hurdles required to attain UNIX 03 certification. That places Apple in elite company. Only Sun, IBM and (...)

Three FreeBSD Security Advisories

The FreeBSD project released 3 security advisories: FreeBSD-SA-07:07.bind -- A patch for the hole in Bind 9 announced earlier this week. FreeBSD-SA-07:06.tcpdump -- a possible buffer overflow in the tcpdump application. FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail -- A revised patch for FreeBSD 5.5 for (...)