Wine

WineX (And Warcraft3) On FreeBSD 143

Posted by timothy from the crossing-boundaries dept.
Dan writes "Kenneth Culver has implemented the Linux ftruncate64, truncate64, and mmap2 syscalls in the linuxulator on his computer, (mostly cut 'n pasted the mmap2 from regular mmap with a couple of changes) and with these changes it is possible to run the Linux version of WineX (the one you have to pay for) to run Warcraft 3 on FreeBSD." If WineX is interesting to you, this earlier article on playing Windows games with WineX (under Linux) may be worth a read.
Apple

Hard Drives Preloaded With GNU-Darwin 246

Posted by timothy from the hurd-drives-next-year dept.
proclus writes "A 40 gig Maxtor 3.5 inch, ATA/EIDE hard drive ready to go with GNU-Darwin OS pre-installed, plus GNU-Darwin Office, plus a full ports tree and select distfiles. This bundle includes Darwin-6.0.2, GNOME desktop, AbiWord, PyMOL, The GIMP, gdFortran, parallel computing, and much more. A triple CDR set is also included. Available now for ppc and x86 computers. The PPC version includes OpenOffice-1.0.1 and Mozilla-1.0. Compatibility is as specified for our OS installer CDs. Check out our updated ordering web page. (Mirror one mirror two.) You want it."
BSD

FreeBSD September-October 2002 Development Status 39

Posted by timothy from the behind-the-scenes dept.
mbadolato writes "A new status report documenting the latest goings on in FreeBSD has been published. There's some good information n there about the features for the upcoming 5.0 release. BTW, there happens to be a lot of stuff going in there for something that is, according to the trolls, dead! ;-)"
BSD

OpenBSD Requests UltraSPARC III Documentation 79

Posted by michael from the please-kind-sir dept.
An anonymous submitter writes "OpenBSD wants to run on all hardware. They've asked Sun for documentation on the UltraSPARC III processors over and over, but been stonewalled. Theo recently asked users to talk to Sun about this issue. A fairly complete thread archive can be found here. The real kicker is that Sun has released this documentation through an NDA to Linux developers..."
Announcements

OpenBSD Acquires IP Load Balancing 19

Posted by Hemos from the move-closer-and-closer dept.
xarc writes "OpenBSD 3.2-current has acquired IP load balancing support via its packet filter, PF. This is a great step for those of us who prefer OpenBSD, but are dependent on other OSes and software (such as Linux's Linux Virtual Server) to provide similar functionality."
The Almighty Buck

HotJobs Upgrades to FreeBSD 49

Posted by timothy from the sysadmin-sought-send-resume dept.
bsdmike writes "DaemonNews has a link to an news article that reports that Yahoo! has saved something like $470,000 by switching HotJobs from Sun Solaris to FreeBSD. It's really amazing what affordable hardware and great Open Source technology can do!"
Announcements

FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #2 343

Posted by timothy from the five-is-a-prime-number dept.
noackjr writes "'The FreeBSD Project is proud to announce the availability of the second Developer Preview snapshot of FreeBSD 5.0 (5.0-DP2). This snapshot, intended for widespread testing purposes, is the latest milestone towards the eventual release of FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE, currently scheduled for mid-December 2002.' See the announcement, early adopter's guide, and the release notes."
BSD

EuroBSDcon 2002 Finished 14

Posted by Hemos from the beautiful-friend-the-end dept.
Giacomo Cariello writes "The 2nd European BSD Conference was held November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam. It was a great success with over 250 attendees. Pictures are now online here. The best paper award was won by Poul-Henning Kamp. Next EuroBSDcon will probably take place in Paris."
BSD

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."

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