BSD

Daemon News Birthday Bash 19

Posted by michael from the streamers-and-party-hats-optional dept.
Chris Coleman writes "With the publication of this month's online ezine, Daemon News is now 4 years old! Since it's our birthday, we decided to invite the slashdot crowd over for a little birthday bash. We have a special coupon code for slashdot readers that will entitle them to a 40% discount on the latest releases of BSD CDs. So you can see for yourself why BSD isn't dying. Pickup FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or Darwin and enter 'happybday' as the coupon code when you checkout. [This won't last long.]"
BSD

Usenix 2002 FreeBSD Dev Summit Notes 30

Posted by timothy from the laying-plans dept.
S K Medusa writes "The FreeBSD Project has put up a page detailing the developments that took place at the Usenix 2002 FreeBSD Developer Summit. Here's the full lowdown. Lots of interesting discussion on SMP, performance issues, new arch targets and the release process. Well worth a look."
BSD

CompactBSD for Embedded Projects 151

Posted by michael from the bsd-inside dept.
miggidy_mac writes "FatPort (a wireless Internet service provider in Vancouver, BC) just released CompactBSD. It's a set of tools that allow you to build your own customized, lightweight distribution of OpenBSD and then burns it onto compact flash (or similar) so that it can be run on an embedded PC platform (like FatPort's own FatPoint). CompactBSD takes the security and networking features of OpenBSD that we know and love, and combines them with ease-of-build and small footprint, which is great for embedded devices. Check out the project on SourceForge."
Announcements

FreeBSD 4.6.2 Released 85

Posted by timothy from the even-the-box-looks-powerful dept.
MobyTurbo writes: "FreeBSD 4.6.2 has been released. It primarily cures a few security problems in the 4.6 release. If you are impatient it will be available at various mirrors, or upgrade your existing FreeBSD installation via cvsup, or support the FreeBSD project by purchasing it at a vendor that supports the FreeBSD project."
Programming

A Paper on IRIX Binary Compatibility in NetBSD 32

Posted by timothy from the so-things-fit-together dept.
jschauma writes "'IRIX Binary Compatibility', the first paper of a series on IRIX binary compatibility on NetBSD by Emmanuel Dreyfus has been published by ONLamp.com. The paper goes into the details of the implementation in the NetBSD kernel. As it explains how things are implemented, the paper documents various kernel susbsystems and reverse engineering techniques."
Security

Porting OBSD's Crypto Hardware Support To FreeBSD 24

Posted by timothy from the eyescanning dept.
Dan writes: "Sam Leffler reports in his email to freebsd-arch regarding the status of his progress porting OpenBSD hardware crypto support to FreeBSD. He's had a patch available for freebsd-stable for a while, and has made major progress changing the KAME IPSEC code to use this framework, again in the style done by openbsd (using continuations to break up the input and output packet processing paths). In addition to the IPSEC work he's been talking to various hardware vendors about support for their products in FreeBSD."
BSD

NetBSD 1.5.3 Released, 1.6 On The Way 80

Posted by timothy from the runs-on-hearing-aids-toasters-thermostats dept.
djcdplaya writes: "The highly portable NetBSD has reached a new milestone. OSNews.com is reporting that NetBSD 1.5.3 has been released. 1.5.3 was released correcting some bugs and adding some additional security. It also has improved device driver support." Part of the same announcement: "Please note that a new major release of NetBSD, version 1.6, is currently in beta test and should be released within a few weeks.
BSD

New Scheduler Available for FreeBSD 232

Posted by Nik from the doesn't-blink-LEDs-when-switching-processes dept.
flynn_nrg writes "Luigi Rizzo, one of the FreeBSD developers, has just finished the code for a new scheduler. From the announcement: '...as promised, a first version of the Proportional Share scheduler that we developed is available here. These are for a recent -STABLE (i think any version from 4.4 should work; the only 3 files modified are kern_synch.c, kern_switch.c and proc.h, plus a one-line change to kern_exit.c). I have tested it a little bit on a diskless system, and it seems to survive running a full X session with the usual set of xterm, netscape etc. while i do a "renice" of the processes and even switch back and forth between schedulers. But do not trust this yet for a production system!' Read the full post here."
BSD

Comparing and Contrasting BSD/OS and NetBSD 35

Posted by timothy from the let-me-see-your-license dept.
LiquidPC writes: ""Even though BSD/OS and NetBSD operating systems have been mostly developed by different developers with some different goals over the past nine years, they share many similarities due to their near identitical open source origins and the open source software that complements the systems" Read the article comparing and contrasting NetBSD and BSD/OS at BSDNewsLetter.com."
Security

OpenBSD 3.0 Honeypot Whitepaper 211

Posted by michael from the it-only-takes-one dept.
Tortured Potato writes "This white paper, by Michael Anuzis, details how he set up an OpenBSD 3.0 honeypot, watched it get cracked and then analyzed it -- all within 28 hours. Fascinating stuff...this is the first OpenBSD honeypot I've heard of."
IBM

FreeBSD s/390 Port in the works 82

Posted by timothy from the very-beginnings dept.
brad-x writes: "It appears that an enterprising gentleman has taken the time to port FreeBSD to the s/390. It needs some work yet, as his project page suggests, but if he makes it happen it will definitely be very cool. Check it out!"

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