Posted
over 12 years
ago
Peter Hansteen was the first to write in that earlier today (July 18, 2011), Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) switched the version string in -current, taking us to 5.0-beta:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: [email protected]
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Posted
almost 13 years
ago
Remi Pointel (rpointel@) has changed the default Python version from 2.6 to 2.7:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: ports
Changes by: [email protected] 2011/06/08 11:28:14
Modified files:
lang/python : python.port.mk
Log message:
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Posted
almost 13 years
ago
Peter Hansteen writes in with a question for our readers:
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As Undeadly readers may be aware, I've been maintaining a PF tutorial for a few years, and the tea leaves (and apache logs) tell me that in the near future my unique visitor number
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Posted
almost 13 years
ago
It's time to restart the tradition of yearly OpenBSD conferences in Sweden again. After a missing year in 2010, we have decided to hold the Slackathon on the 6th of August.
Read more...
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Posted
almost 13 years
ago
Henning Brauer (henning@) has just sent an e-mail to misc@ announcing the publication of his presentation from BSDCan 2011. Weighing in at 82 pages, he gives a detailed overview of what happened to our favourite firewall in the last 10 years. I can
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Posted
almost 13 years
ago
Stefan Sperling (stsp@) writes in with a summary on encrypting the root filesystem with softraid.
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When softraid is used for disk encryption the root partition is usually
left unencrypted to allow bioctl(8) to ask for a passphrase upon boot
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Posted
almost 13 years
ago
Reader Renaud Allard writes in with an update he received from the OpenBSD Europe store:
I just received a mail telling me that my OpenBSD 4.9 CDs were dispatched:
This is an automated message from OpenBSD Europe with regard to
your order on
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Posted
almost 13 years
ago
Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@) writes in with a story about how M:tier, the company he works for, uses OpenBSD.
For several years now I've been working for M:tier, a very OpenBSD-friendly company, and I think
it's about time that we share
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Posted
almost 13 years
ago
Bob Beck (beck@) wrote an important appeal to the readers of the misc@ and tech@ mailinglists, explaining that things like bigmem and other developments can be worked on and added to the tree because of the sale of CDs and OpenBSD paraphernalia.
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Posted
almost 13 years
ago
Since this commit:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: [email protected] 2011/04/02 11:36:45
Modified files:
sys/arch/amd64/amd64: machdep.c
Log message:
Enable bigmem by default on amd64.
ok deraadt@
amd64 machines may now use more than 4G of ram.
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