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OpenBSD project creator Theo de Raadt detailed his concerns regarding BSD-licensed code and Dual-BSD/GPL-licensed code being re-licensed under only the GPL : "Honestly, I was greatly troubled by the situation, because even people like Alan Cox were giving other Linux developers advice to... Break the law.

Many would know Windows, Mac OSX and Ubuntu. However, have you ever heard about OpenBSD? What will you think if you heard someone mentioned OpenBSD? Background OpenBSD is a BSD based operating system, it share similar kernel as FreeBSD.

OpenBSD project creator Theo de Raadt detailed his concerns regarding BSD-licensed code and Dual-BSD/GPL-licensed code being re-licensed under only the GPL : "Honestly, I was greatly troubled by the situation, because even people like Alan Cox were giving other Linux developers advice to... Break the law.

"DesktopBSD 1.6RC3 for AMD64 is now available for download via BitTorrent and from our mirror sites.

Contributed by jason on Mon Dec 7 13:42:03 2009 from the need-for-information dept.

FreeBSD Security Officer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, A short time ago a "local root" exploit was posted to the full-disclosure mailing list; as the name suggests, this allows a local user to execute arbitrary code as root.

Red Midnight and other readers brought to our attention a bug in most deployed versions of Linux that could result in untrusted users getting root access.

Richard Stallman sent a message to OpenBSD-Misc, explaining why he doesn't recommend OpenBSD .

Contributed by weerd on Wed Oct 28 23:13:20 2009 from the evil-ipsec dept. A bug has been found in the IPsec parts of ip_output.c that can lead to NULL pointer dereference in getsockopt() . On kernels from before 4.4, this could lead to a local privilege escalation on certain architectures.

OpenBSD is a free open source operating system based upon the Berkeley Software Distribution for UNIX .

Latest version sports a new mail server and an easier installation; core network and routing tools also improved.

Not too long ago, Apple open sourced its Grand Central Dispatch library , which aids in developing multithreaded code.

Richard Stallman sent a message to OpenBSD-Misc, explaining why he doesn't recommend OpenBSD .

Contributed by jason on Fri Sep 18 01:43:27 2009 from the more-time-to-preorder dept.

Contributed by jj on Mon Sep 14 06:48:30 2009 from the openbsd-tube dept. The Slackathon 2009 conference was held at the Stockholm University at the 15th of August, following the Filesystem/VM Hackathon 2009 .

A security researcher has uncovered a security bug in the FreeBSD operating system that allows users with limited privileges to take full control of underlying systems.

The yum command line tool is used to install and update software packages under CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux.

An anonymous reader writes "Twelve years ago OpenBSD developers started engineering a release process that has resulted in quality software being delivered on a consistent 6 month schedule - 25 times in a row, exactly on the date promised, and with no critical bugs.

The FreeBSD team has started the beta cycle for FreeBSD 8.0 by releasing this new version's first beta .

Theo De Raadt, founder of the security-minded OpenBSD operating system, has announced plans to launch a series of television commercials to battle software giants Microsoft and Apple.