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Results 1 - 20 of 38 in BSD

  1. RE[4]: He's wrong

    Saturday Dec 26 | OSNews.com

    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.

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

  2. RE[2]: $100K USD for GPL version ?Read the original story

    Saturday Dec 26 | OSNews.com

    OpenBSD has asked for donations : "To fulfill most development goals OpenBSD should be generating about $100K USD.

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

  3. OpenBSD: Introduction to a Very Secure and Reliable Operating System

    Wednesday Dec 23 | Associated Content

    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.

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  4. RE[4]: GPL people mean-spirited

    Friday Dec 18 | OSNews.com

    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.

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

  5. NetBSD: Bankrupt Software DistributionRead the original story

    Saturday Dec 12 | Kuro5hin.org

    ... hardware, an area NetBSD has struggled with in the past. But is the ultimate goal of $60,000 appropriate for the BSD family's middle child? Is NetBSD a good long-term investment of that kind of money? Is NetBSD even worth the nearly $8,000 raised so ...

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  6. RE[2]: Good news

    Wednesday Dec 9 | OSNews.com

    ... all comments associated with this story, please click here . Member since: 2006-10-08 "I maybe wrong here but I think PC-BSD still includes the ports system if you want to use it." In fact, PC-BSD, as well as DesktopBSD, contain both facilities for ...

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

  7. First look at FreeBSD 8.0Read the original story

    Dec 7, 2009 | Linux Today

    "The FreeBSD operating system is very flexible and well-suited to many different environments, including embedded systems and desktop machines.

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

  8. AsiaBSDCon 2010 - Call for Papers

    Dec 7, 2009 | OpenBSD Journal

    ... Read on to find out why it's a great conference to attend: If you are living in Asia and are interested in attending a BSD conference, this is the one to attend. Besides the conference, Tokyo is a great city for food, shopping, unique Asian culture ...

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

  9. [h2k9]: Hardware Hackathon SummaryRead the original story w/Photo

    Dec 4, 2009 | OpenBSD Journal

    Contributed by jason on Fri Dec 4 18:59:48 2009 from the suspending-disbelief-and-laptops dept.

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  10. Bugtraq: Upcoming FreeBSD Security Advisory

    Dec 1, 2009 | SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities

    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.

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

  11. RE[10]: BSDRead the original story

    Nov 29, 2009 | OSNews.com

    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.

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

  12. Both smoke crack and I think they're awsomeRead the original story

    Nov 28, 2009 | OSNews.com

    ... blobs). However, its ports system does suggest non-free programs, or at least so I was told when I looked for some BSD variant that I could recommend. I therefore exercise my freedom of speech by not including OpenBSD in the list of systems that I ...

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  13. FreeBSD Project Announces Release of FreeBSD Version 8.0Read the original story

    Nov 25, 2009 | Media Newswire

    The FreeBSD Project has announced the release of FreeBSD Version 8.0. This next major release branch of FreeBSD delivers a large number of new technologies into the hands of an ever-increasing number of users.

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  14. FreeBSD Project Announces Release of FreeBSD Version 8.0Read the original story

    Nov 25, 2009 | PRWeb

    The FreeBSD Project has announced the release of FreeBSD Version 8.0. This next major release branch of FreeBSD delivers a large number of new technologies into the hands of an ever-increasing number of users.

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    Related Topix: Open Source Software, Science / Technology, FreeBSD, CPU, Wireless, Emerging Technology, Wi-Fi

  15. FreeBSD Project Announces Release of FreeBSD Version 8.0 Read the original story

    Nov 25, 2009 | PRWeb

    Key release focuses include wireless networking, virtualization, and storage technology.802.11 wireless networking has been overhauled to add Virtual Access Points support, which allows multiple wireless networks to be hosted from a single access point.

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  16. Bug In Most Linuxes Can Give Untrusted Users Root

    Nov 4, 2009 | Slashdot

    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.

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

  17. RE[5]: Who is the GPL zealot to say anything?

    Nov 4, 2009 | OSNews.com

    ... blobs). However, its ports system does suggest non-free programs, or at least so I was told when I looked for some BSD variant that I could recommend. I therefore exercise my freedom of speech by not including OpenBSD in the list of systems that I ...

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  18. RE[16]: Re: Say What?Read the original story

    Nov 1, 2009 | OSNews.com

    ... looked through the references, and comments. The thing I am most shocked by is how much Apple have taken. So what? The BSD license is designed to allow this. Which is great, BTW: Sun only exists because once there was a time SunOS was 100% ...

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  19. Reliability Fix: kernel NULL pointer dereference in getsockopt

    Oct 28, 2009 | OpenBSD Journal

    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.

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  20. OpenBSD

    Oct 27, 2009 | TechTarget

    OpenBSD is a free open source operating system based upon the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) for UNIX . The OpenBSD project, coordinated by Theo de Raadt, is known in the programming community for its attention to security. His team is perhaps ...

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