BSDCon '03 Nearly Here (OpenBSD 3.4, Too)

robotdreams writes "Once again BSDCon showcases the BSD community's long history of innovative research, open exchange of ideas, and collaborative work. Tutorials this year feature: an intensive code walkthrough of the new FreeBSD 5.x release, debugging kernel problems on live systems, advanced BSD system and network security, and FreeBSD's new GEOM disk I/O subsystem." Since BSDCon runs from September 8th through 12th, you're probably either already going or out of luck ;) On the other hand, you're still early for OpenBSD 3.4, now taking pre-orders -- details below.

An anonymous reader writes "Pre-orders for the OpenBSD project's latest release, 3.4, are now being taken. This release will ship around November 1st. Significant enhancements have been made in this release, including i386 switch to ELF executable format, further W^X improvements for i386, ld.so on ELF platforms now loads libraries in a random order for greater resistance to attacks, inclusion of a static bounds checker to the compiler for basic checks on functions which accept buffers and sizes, strcpy/strcat function audit to replace with safer strlcpy/strlcat, ProPolice stack protection in the kernel, further manual page cleanups, large number of bug fixes and optimizations to the packet filter (PF) including packet tagging, stateful TCP normalization, passive OS detection, SYN proxy, and adaptive state timeouts, and many other improvements to the rest of the system.

Order a CD from the OpenBSD store. Ordering a CD helps support the project, as a bonus you get cool stickers, artwork, and an audio track!"

The same reader sent links to more information on this release, including new features, and the changelog between 3.3 and 3.4.

The important question

[Anonymous Coward]

Will that hot FreeBSD devil babe be there?!

Soothing break

[Mr. Darl McBride]

We'd like to interrupt this BSD story for a bit of pro-BSD propaganda.

Tell me you don't want BSD on your laptop now [madchat.org].

Further persuasion available here [madchat.org]. This is definitely +1 Interesting material to any heterosexual male. Mod me down if you are the sendmail author or otherwise uninterested.

Don't go!

[in7ane]

Please don't go to either of these, and if you already are - come back now. I hear there is a good change of dying at either of these two conventions.

Re:FreeBSD filesystem

[Anonymous Coward]

I just lost my Moustache in a shaving accident you insensitive clod

Re:FreeBSD filesystem

[Frohboy]

Sigh... why do people mod things up as "interesting" or "insightful" when they don't understand what they mean? The parent should potentially be modified up as +1 funny.

Note the following terms used (and think of associated acronyms):

• Async Network And Loopback probe
• Big Data Storage Management companies

Re:Soothing break

[Mr. Darl McBride]

Do you know how hard it is to find an attractive mormon woman in latex?

Re:FreeBSD filesystem

[Anonymous Coward]

You missed the moustache ride and penal sheath?

Re:Soothing break

[Anonymous Coward]

Tell me you don't want BSD on your laptop now.

+5, serious; I want BSD on top of my lap. Is that the same thing?

Very interesting, but...

[edunbar93]

Significant enhancements have been made in this release, including i386 switch to ELF executable format, further W^X improvements for i386...

Yes, but what *I* want to know is whether the BSD babes are going to be there. :D

Mmmm. Mondo cleavage and red latex!