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Wednesday Oct 8 | Sun Bloggers

SVOSUG 10/23, Arduino Night, buy a kit, build a kit, bring a board

When: Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Mansion What: Arduino Night, buy a kit, build a kit, bring a board Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm Yahoo Maps We are planning our next SVOSUG meeting, and I ...

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, Linux, FreeBSD

Mon Sep 29, 2008

Bugtraq mailing list

Re: Sun M-class hardware denial of service

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 08:14:35PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > OpenBSD of course cannot run in a Solaris zone.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, OpenBSD, Open Source Software

Mon Sep 22, 2008

Sun Bloggers

Denial of Service (DoS) issue reported in Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 running OpenBSD

Sun is aware of a Denial of Service issue in the Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server running OpenBSD.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, OpenBSD, Open Source Software

Sat Sep 13, 2008

OSNews.com

Ekhm

As recently reported on OpenBSD's errata page , a problem in the mbuf handling of IPv6 has been elevated to a security issue.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, OpenBSD, Open Source Software

Tue Sep 09, 2008

SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq: Sun M-class hardware denial of service

Theo de Raadt Sun/Fujitsu M4000-M9000 machines are very expensive multicpu sparc64 architecture machines, scaling all the way up to 64 processors, 256 cores, and 512 threads.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU, OpenBSD, Open Source Software

Sun Sep 07, 2008

OSNews.com

RE[2]: Oh oh *BSD isn't perfect

As recently reported on OpenBSD's errata page , a problem in the mbuf handling of IPv6 has been elevated to a security issue.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, OpenBSD, Open Source Software

Wed Aug 20, 2008

LinuxTracker

[TORRENT] KDE4.1 Binary Packages (tar.gz) for FreeBSD7 i386

These packages can either be installed manually, or by means of a provided "install-desktop" script in the /scripts directory of this DVD.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, FreeBSD

Tue Aug 05, 2008

Sun Bloggers

OpenBSD runs on HUGE list of Sun SPARC systems -- T1, T2 support coming in 4.4

OpenBSD and Niagara Support Back in April I wrote that Mark Kettenis had succeeded in porting OpenBSD to the SPARC Enterprise T1000 server.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, OpenBSD, Open Source Software

Sat Jul 26, 2008

OSNews.com

Typical GPL'ers

"I, Michael Buesch, am one of the maintainers of the GPL'd Linux wireless LAN driver for the Broadcom chip .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, OpenBSD, Open Source Software, Linux

Mon Jul 21, 2008

Librenix

permapage

This interview with OpenBSD developers reveals an inside look at the changes in the new release... The most exciting new feature in OpenBSD/sparc64 is SMP support.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, OpenBSD, Open Source Software

Fri Jul 18, 2008

Internetnews.com

NTT Donates IPv6 Bandwidth to Open Source

Turbo Screen Sharing Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional offers users the ability to have a more productive and engaging web conferencing experience while providing the IT department with a program that ...

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Related Topix: Open Source Software, FreeBSD, Telecom, IT Services, University of California System, UC Davis

Wed Jul 16, 2008

TMCnet

NTT America and Internet Systems Consortium Advance IPv6 for Open Source Community and General Public

Internet Systems Consortium, a non-profit public benefit corporation, and NTT America, a U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, announced that the ISC's IPv6 infrastructure has been enhanced by a ...

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Related Topix: Telecom, IT Services, The College of New Jersey, Open Source Software, Science / Technology, FreeBSD

Mon Jul 07, 2008

Free Software Magazine -

Book Review: Building a Server with FreeBSD 7 by Bryan J. Hong

My first exposure to Unix was ULTRIX from the Digital Equipment Corporation, a former employer.

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Related Topix: Computers, Programming Languages, PHP, Open Source Software, FreeBSD

Sat Jul 05, 2008

OSNews.com

RE[2]: Good news

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

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU, Open Source Software, FreeBSD

Wed Jul 02, 2008

OSNews.com

Book Review: The Best of FreeBSD Basics

Dru Lavigne's very useful book turns the arcana of FreeBSD into a comprehensible set of tools.

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Related Topix: Computers, Science / Technology, Open Source Software, FreeBSD

Thu Jun 26, 2008

OSNews.com

Exclusive: The MacOSX Roots

A lot has been said about the roots of Mac OS X and there is quite some confusion about its exact Unix geneology.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, Open Source Software, FreeBSD

Wed Jun 18, 2008

OpenBSD Journal

[c2k8]: Hackathon Summary Part 1

Contributed by merdely on Wed Jun 18 20:31:30 2008 from the fscking-softraid-crypto dept.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, OpenBSD, Open Source Software, Science / Technology

Mon Jun 16, 2008

OSNews.com

RE[4]: GPL people mean-spirited

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, ...

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Related Topix: OpenBSD, Open Source Software, Science / Technology, Linux

Sat Jun 14, 2008

Samba mailing list

Re: [Samba] Samba on FreeBSD 7.0

On Friday 13 June 2008 20:40, white list wrote: > Hello ALL, > does any body know the options to enable when installing samba from ports > collection? It depends what you intend to do with samba.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, FreeBSD

Thu Jun 12, 2008

OSNews.com

Re: This has nothing to do with the license

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Mar 2006 21:49 UTC "Theo de Raadt is the project leader for OpenBSD, a Unix-like operating system.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, Linux, OpenBSD

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