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NetBSD Powered iSCSI Accesible Appliance Released 16

Posted by chrisd from the wasabi-makes-fish-taste-good dept.
hubertf writes "TeamASA and Wasabi Systems cooperated to bring out a new "Personal Internet Network Attached Storage/Server" which runs on a 733MHz XScale CPU, does LVD SCSI and Gbit Ethernet with AppleTalk, Samba and most interestingly iSCSI to access the system. And of course this runs on NetBSD! Check out the appliance's web page." Looks like a really nice box.
Graphics

Accelerated nVidia Drivers for FreeBSD 293

Posted by michael from the bring-out-all-the-freebsd-games dept.
zero0w writes "nVidia has released the official OpenGL accelerated driver set for FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE. Check out the nVidia Driver page for more detail. According to the page, this release should be considered as initial beta. So don't count on it to build a day-to-day production system, yet."
BSD

OpenBSD 3.2 Available 331

Posted by michael from the daemon-goodness dept.
fredrikv writes "Right on time, the files defining OpenBSD 3.2 have moved away from "snapshots" to the 3.2 directory of the OpenBSD mirrors. It is well known as the world's most secure operating system and now sports chroot'd Apache, fewer suid binaries, cool pictures for xdm-logins, a brilliant "antispoof" packet filtering rule and as usual includes lots of small updates and fixes. The files are there. What are you waiting for?"
BSD

Opera Releases Stable FreeBSD Browser 116

Posted by timothy from the fat-lady-gargles dept.
1nsane0ne writes "The Register is reporting that Opera has released a production FreeBSD version. It appears to have fixed some of the problems that I found in a few hours of playing around with the betas and will be interesting to test a bit more."
Security

Protecting System Binaries From Trojan Attack 44

Posted by timothy from the matching-game dept.
junyoung writes "Brett Lymn has added verified exec to NetBSD-current, which verifies a cryptographic hash before allowing execution of binaries and scripts. This can be used to prevent a system from running binaries or scripts which have been illegally modified or installed. Verified exec can also be used to limit the use of script interpreters to authorized scripts only and disallow interactive use."
BSD

OpenBSD 3.2 Readies For Release, pf Matures 304

Posted by CowboyNeal from the alternatives-to-linux-and-iptables dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Just over a year ago, OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt ripped ipfilter out of the OpenBSD code leaving "the world's most secure OS" temporarily without a packet filter. Here's an interesting interview with Daniel Hartmeier, author of pf, the stateful packet filter developed as a replacement. Now just over a year old, it sounds like pf has already become a serious contendor in the world of stateful packet filtering. This interview is of particular relevance with OpenBSD 3.2 to be released on Friday, 11/1."
Security

FreeBSD Gets 'Fast IPsec' Implementation 62

Posted by michael from the better,-faster:-pick-any-two dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Sam Leffler (yes, one of the authors of the BSD Design and Implementation book you have on your bookshelf if you know anything with operating systems) has just committed a new FAST_IPSEC implementation to the FreeBSD 5.x source tree. It's a merge of the KAME IPsec implementation and the OpenBSD hardware crypto accelerated IPsec implementation. You can read the commit message here."
BSD

Beta FreeBSD Search Engine 31

Posted by michael from the locate-a-booth-babe-near-you dept.
petef writes "In my spare time, I've been buildling a FreeBSD Search Engine. I am hoping it will be of use to everyone; it pulls the top 3 search results off some major search engines (FreeBSD.org, google.com/bsd, etc). I'm looking for people to give it a run and give me some feedback on it. Thanks!"
BSD

OpenBSD Gains Privilege Elevation 314

Posted by CowboyNeal from the permission-granted dept.
ocipio writes "OpenBSD's systrace now has privilege elevation support. This means binaries no longer need to be suid or sgid an longer. Applications can be executed completely unprivileged. Systrace raises the privileges for a single system call depending on the configured policy."
BSD

NetBSD Ported To SuperH 64-bit SH-5 Processor 25

Posted by timothy from the and-to-your-manual-transmission dept.
djcdplaya writes "Carrying on the tradition of NetBSD's ability to run on pretty much anything short of a toaster, Wasabi Systems has ported NetBSD to the SuperH 64-bit SH-5 processor. Here's a cut and paste job: 'NetBSD is the first commercially available operating system to run on the SH-5 platform. "We're very impressed with the speed of Wasabi's porting efforts," said Jon Frosdick, Director of Software Engineering at SuperH, Inc. Ideally suited for system-on-chip (SOC) designs and embedded applications, the SH-5 provides a feature-rich platform for designers developing set-top boxes, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), game consoles, networking and telephony applications, multimedia appliances and car infotainment systems.'"
Security

OpenSSH 3.5 Released 140

Posted by timothy from the vavavoom dept.
Dan writes "Markus Friedl announces that OpenSSH 3.5 has just been released with notable updates since 3.4. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly. Enhancements include bug fixes, improved support for Privilege Separation (Portability, Kerberos, PermitRootLogin handling), RSA blinding in order to avoid timing attacks against the RSA host key and much more. Congratulations are in order for the OpenSSH team's hard work and efforts."
Linux Business

NetBSD @ linuxday.lu 16

Posted by Hemos from the reportage-from-the-front dept.
Dan writes "Hubert Feyrer reports his experiences at the second Linuxdays of Lexembourgh in an email. From Oct 1st to 3rd, the second Linuxdays of Luxembourgh took place, which attracted about 260 visitors. There were many tutorials and presentations, and also an exhibition area. Hubert Feyrer was there doing presentations on a Video-Rendering Cluster using NetBSD, and a general introduction to The NetBSD Project. He also ran a NetBSD booth!"
Announcements

FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE 414

Posted by timothy from the now-with-improved-goodness dept.
Triumph The Insult C writes "FreeBSD 4.7 is out. Here is the announcement. New items include an option for IPFW2, a number of disk controller updates, security updates, and some changes to userland. Remember, please use a mirror." Among other things, the release announcement says: "FreeBSD 4.7 also incorporates all of the security and bug fixes from 4.6.2 (released in August 2002), including several ATA-related bugfixes, updates for OpenSSL and OpenSSH, and fixes to address several security advisories." And here are the release notes.
BSD

OpenBSD 3.2 Pre-Release 22

Posted by michael from the de-raadt.-theo-de-raadt dept.
Noryungi writes "Yep, OpenBSD 3.2 is now officially in pre-release, and can be pre-ordered from the openbsd.org web site as well. Another very, very wacky design for the CD as well... Is Theo de Raadt a fan of James Bond?"
Announcements

Early Registration for European BSD Conference 2002 15

Posted by michael from the no-waiting dept.
Walter Belgers writes "This year, the European BSD Conference will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Friday November 15 is a tutorial day, Saturday and Sunday are filled with interesting lectures about FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and MacOS X, and a keynote by Mike Karels. This is your chance to learn from BSD developers and see how other BSDs are doing. Early registration is open until October 18th. For more information, see the website."
BSD

End Of OpenBSD 3.0-STABLE Branch - Upgrade To 3.2 72

Posted by Hemos from the movin'-on-up dept.
jukal writes "From here: "Hello folks, Due to the upcoming release of OpenBSD 3.2, the 3.0-STABLE branch will be out of regular maintainance starting december 1st. There will be NO MORE fixes commited to this branch after this day. People relying on 3.0-STABLE (or older releases even) are strongly advised to upgrade to a more recent release (preferrably 3.2 as it becomes available) as soon as possible. Thanks for reading, Miod" Download from your preferred FTP mirror."
BSD

BSD Still Won't Run on IBM ThinkPads? 54

Posted by Cliff from the fixing-the-problem dept.
omega_cubed asks: "'You've successfully installed FreeBSD, now your computer is going to hang at boot up!' -- That was what I just recently suffered. I've been running Mandrake on my ThinkPad X20 for almost a year. But the lack of high speed internet connection over the summer prevented me from keeping up with the various patches/updates. Many services--sendmail, apache, etc.--were shutdown one by one because of security vulnerabilities. Recently I decided that instead of trying to catch all those patches I missed in the last few months, I might just as well do a clean install of FreeBSD. I've done what I think was all the preparations necessary: I backed-up all my files, checked all the hardwares for possible conflicts (on FreeBSD.org) and supports, downloaded the ISO image. And I decided the computer should be able to take it. Unfortunately, I didn't come across the old slashdot article reporting a possible conflict between IBM ThinkPad's BIOS and FreeBSD's filesystem. So last night, after much struggling, I installed FreeBSD. It finished, rebooted, and the computer now just hangs at bootup (here's a more detailed report on what happened). It doesn't even go into BIOS. Does anyone have experience dealing with this? Is there anyway I can update the BIOS? The diskettes provided IBM were not able to boot the computer, and I am at a loss here. Thanks."
Movies

DVD Playback In FreeBSD 31

Posted by timothy from the hi-jack dept.
LiquidPC writes "ONLamp.com has a new article on DVD playback in FreeBSD. It goes over setting up your system for optimal DVD playback, and describes how to install and use many of the DVD players that are in the FreeBSD ports collection."
BSD

NetBSD-Current Gets SMP 41

Posted by timothy from the build-a-bigger-box dept.
MobyTurbo writes "NetBSD-current for the i386 architecture now has SMP. (It used to be that only FreeBSD had this feature among the free BSDs.) See the announcement on the current-users mailing list."

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