bsdtalk (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
FreeBSD 8.0 is out, and I'm hoping the Xen DomU support means that I can use it on Amazon's EC2 soon. Interview with OpenBSD enthusiast Girish Venkatachalam. File info: 25Min, 12MB. Ogg Link: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk180.ogg
Phoronix (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The developers behind the Xine multimedia player have announced the release of xine-lib 1.1.17. This isn't the major Xine 1.2 library update that is expected to offer significantly better Blu-ray disc support along with support for NVIDIA's VDPAU interface, but the 1.1.17 release does carry some interesting features. To be found in xine-lib 1.1.17 is improved Matroska support, fixes for UTF-16 (affecting...
TTC Shelbyville (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Should we teach Microsoft Products only in IT? No. Although Microsoft runs the IT arena, new IT students should be exposed to MAC and Linux. Our class grows more complicated every term. Where we ‘touched’ lightly on Linux, we now install Ubuntu, OpenBSD, Solaris, RedHat and other linux operating systems. Starting with Ubuntu as an ‘easy’ [...]
OS Galaxy (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Not really a KDE related post, but instead one about the OpenChange project. OpenChange is a project to implement the Microsoft Exchange / Outlook protocols, and we're creeping up on the 0.9 release. For those not familiar with it, the aim is to be wire-level compatible, so that you can use a FOSS client (such as Evolution or an Akonadi client) with an unmodified Exchange server. OpenChange depends...
pro-dz (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
XnView 1.97 beta 4 Multilingual Portable | 9.43 Mb XnView, a software to view and convert graphic files, really simple to use. Support of more than 400 graphics formats. XnView exists for Windows, MacOS X, Linux x86, Linux ppc, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, NetBSD x86, Solaris sparc, Solaris x86, Irix mips, HP-UX, AIX. The most important features are: Import about 400 graphic file formats and Export about...
Code Review - All issues (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
initial v8 openbsd support
TTC Shelbyville (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Should we teach Microsoft Products only in IT? No. Although Microsoft runs the IT arena, new IT students should be exposed to MAC and Linux. Our class grows more complicated every term. Where we ‘touched’ lightly on Linux, we now install Ubuntu, OpenBSD, Solaris, RedHat and other linux operating systems. Starting with Ubuntu as an ‘easy’ [...]
Code Review - All issues (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
implement SysInfo::MaxSharedMemorySize for openbsd using the appropriate sysctl's (based on systat code)
pro-dz (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
XnView 1.97 beta 3 Multilingual Portable | 9.42 Mb XnView, a software to view and convert graphic files, really simple to use. Support of more than 400 graphics formats. XnView exists for Windows, MacOS X, Linux x86, Linux ppc, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, NetBSD x86, Solaris sparc, Solaris x86, Irix mips, HP-UX, AIX. The most important features are: Import about 400 graphic file formats and Export about...
ZDNet (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
If you want security coupled with flexibility and some good old-fashioned command line action in your UNIX of choice, look no further than OpenBSD.
Phoronix (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
It was just about two weeks ago that GRUB 2.0 moved closer to release with version 1.97 finally making it out the door after being just shy of two years without a new release. GRUB 1.97 brought Mac OS X kernel support, EXT4 file-system support, support for RAID 4/6/10, high-resolution timer support, support for loading FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD kernels, and many other changes...
pro-dz (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
XnView 1.97 beta 2 Multilingual Portable | 9.42 Mb XnView, a software to view and convert graphic files, really simple to use. Support of more than 400 graphics formats. XnView exists for Windows, MacOS X, Linux x86, Linux ppc, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, NetBSD x86, Solaris sparc, Solaris x86, Irix mips, HP-UX, AIX. The most important features are: Import about 400 graphic file formats and Export about...
bsdtalk (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Interview with OpenBSD developer Jacek Masiulaniec. We talk about the OpenSMTPd Mail Transfer Agent and also a little bit about the Epitome data deduplication project. File info: 14Min, 7MB. Ogg Link: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk179.ogg
DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Stephan Rickauer has announced the release of BSDanywhere 4.6, an OpenBSD-based live CD featuring the IceWM window manager: "We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of BSDanywhere 4.6 - OpenBSD at your fingertips. Here's a quick summary of the changes since 4.5: upgrade base system to OpenBSD....
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Red Midnight and other readers brought to our attention a bug in most deployed versions of Linux that could result in untrusted users getting root access. The bug was found by Brad Spengler last month. "The null pointer dereference flaw was only fixed in the upcoming 2.6.32 release candidate of the Linux kernel, making virtually all production versions in use at the moment vulnerable. While attacks...
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