The Month in BSD

by Sam Smith
11/04/2004

Hi, and welcome to a roundup of what happened in the BSD-related world in the last month. If you're interested in previous months, they can be found at DaemonNews.

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 3.6 released
(now with SMP, new platforms, new daemons, and more security)

• What's new and order form
• kerneltrap article

The new 3.6 song is "Pond-erosa Puff (live)."
"I'm sick and tired of these gol-darn words! n' laws n' bureaucratic nerds!"

• Song lyrics and download

Redistributable Firmware Wanted: Texas Instruments
(Can we redistribute a binary file so your hardware works, please?)

• And so it begins
• Theo's first message
• "Please shut up so I can ignore you again"
• More email addresses
• KernelTrap thread summary
• News article
• Undeadly article

Redistributable Firmware Wanted: Intel

• Opening a dialogue
• Undeadly.org post

Miscellaneous OpenBSD

• Happy birthday, OpenBSD: now 9 years old
• Interview with OpenBSD developers
• Ports Infrastructure updates from Marc Espie
• Redistributable firmware obtained from some manufacturers

Related Reading BSD Hacks 100 Industrial Tip & Tools By Dru Lavigne

FreeBSD

5.3 delayed slightly

• Comment from Scott Long

Interview with Poul-Henning Kamp

• http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?p=2236

`rm -rf / ` ^C
oops

• John Beck's fix for Solaris: the standards committee is bonkers
• Matt Dillon implements it on DragonFly
• FreeBSD people start talking like the standards committee

FreeBSD sysadmin training, December 7 to 10, 2004

NetBSD

Miscellaneous NetBSD

• New logo released
• Quarterly status report
• NetBSD version number scheme changes (120-line document on version numbers. x.99?)

New platform: Iyonix
(Risc OS brings back memories ...)

• NetBSD port page
• Iyonix website

DragonFlyBSD

OffMyServer.com donates blade server to DragonFly

• Announcement
• Pictures
• DragonFlyBSD Digest message

Installing via tftp and nfs
(would this work for other OSes?)

Matt Dillon video

• Video interview
• Interview transcript

Making debugging easier

• Installing debug kernels by default ...
• ... saves disk space
• How to get a crash dump

Apple

Textmate causing a buzz
(looks cute)

• Textmate

Jonathan Ive speaks on design
(Apple VP of industrial design)

iPod Photo
(not lots more shiny than normal iPods)

Mac OS X Con

• Review of Apple's Xcode keynote on MacSlash
• Apple's Tiger keynote on MacSlash

Mac OS X RSS roundtable

• Roundtable
• MacSlash summary

VT Supercomputer upgraded to Xserves

Other

High-performance BSD

• BoF at Supercomputing 2004: November 11

"BSD Success Stories" booklet
(BSD just works)

• Downloadable PDF
• DaemonNews article

matrixdump
("All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead.")

Miscellaneous reading

• Discussion of X.org
• Basics of DNSSEC
• Integer overflows, "the next big threat"

Why the BSDs include the license in the file

• From Matt Dillon
• Two mentions of OpenBSD as a positive security example
• Bruce Schneier's blog
• Interview with Theo

Sam Smith lives in Manchester, England, and works on interfaces to data. When he's not in front of a computer, he's usually in a theater, probably with MUGSS.

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