BSD News

xMach : News : xMach news for 2001
Posted: ( Fri 5th Jan 2001 09:32:00[PM] UTC )
"There should be a good stable source code release Real Soon Now. I'd like to invite the open source community to join the project, I know we've been a bit disorganised, but I'd love to see the readers of FreeOS.com join on and contribute. For those of you not in to kernel hacking, there's a number of sub-projects regarding security and devices and such that might be of interest to you. Also, the wishlist on the website is there now - use it!!"

NetBSD : News : Running numerous OS' at the same time
Posted: ( Mon 25th Dec 2000 05:14:24[PM] UTC )
Recently, plex86, a PC virtualization program, was ported to NetBSD as a host operating system. The open source plex86 project allows users to run multiple operating systems concurrently on the same machine.

OpenBSD : News : OpenBSD exploit gets serious
Posted: ( Wed 20th Dec 2000 08:43:43[PM] UTC )
An esoteric buffer overflow bug in OpenBSD has been upgraded in importance after it was discovered that, in certain conditions, it could allow a cracker to gain remote access to a server.

NetBSD : News : plex86 ported to NetBSD/i386
Posted: ( Thu 14th Dec 2000 06:54:02[AM] UTC )
The virtual x86 machine emulator 'plex86' now works on a second Open Source operating system. So far plex86 did only support Linux as host platform, and thanks to Frank van der Linden of Wasabi Systems (http://www.wasabisystems.com/), it now also works on the i386 port of the NetBSD multi-platform operating system.

NetBSD : News : Announcing NetBSD 1.5
Posted: ( Wed 6th Dec 2000 06:38:14[PM] UTC )
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 1.5 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports 31 system families and 12 CPU families, all from a single source tree. The 1.5 release brings many performance and security enhancements, as well as support for new platforms (such as the G4 cube) and new peripherals.

xMach : News : xMach Quickies.
Posted: ( Mon 4th Dec 2000 02:48:01[PM] UTC )
Official download site is now http://www.xMach.org/src/. Ports now for HP PA-RISC, SGI MIPS, Sun4u, and i386 (official description Not -too- shabby. Still need developers). A online wishlist - feel free to ask for everything you could ever want! A newsgroup - alt.os.xmach. That's the best place to ask questions or send bugs. A few new 'ideas' have been announced. There's more coming this week.

OpenBSD : News : OpenBSD 2.8 officially released
Posted: ( Fri 1st Dec 2000 10:29:16[PM] UTC )
The new release provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system.

BSD : News : BSD community learns to get along
Posted: ( Fri 1st Dec 2000 10:19:20[PM] UTC )
Thanks to the imminent arrival of MacOS X, the next generation of Apple's Macintosh operating system that incorporates substantial portions of the BSD code base, self-described "BSD bigots" are contemplating a future in which more computers users run versions of BSD than rival Linux.

NetBSD : News : NetBSD 1.4.3 released
Posted: ( Wed 29th Nov 2000 06:21:46[PM] UTC )
This release fixes problems found in the earlier 1.4.x family of releases, improves stability, and includes support for new hardware. NetBSD 1.4.3 is a patch release of the 1.4 release branch.

FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD 4.2 now available
Posted: ( Wed 29th Nov 2000 06:21:03[PM] UTC )
Following the release of FreeBSD 4.1.1 in September, 2000, many bugs were fixed, important security issues dealt with, and a conservative number of new features added.

BSD : News : BSDi receives $5 Million investment
Posted: ( Tue 31st Oct 2000 11:47:44[PM] UTC )
BSDi will use the proceeds from the investment to continue to develop and market advanced BSD operating systems and its iXtreme Series line of Internet servers computing systems and to provide ongoing backing for the FreeBSD Project, the developers of the FreeBSD open source operating system.

FreeBSD : News : New FreeBSD core team elected
Posted: ( Fri 13th Oct 2000 03:04:56[AM] UTC )
FreeBSD has a new core team which was elected by active FreeBSD committers. According to the FreeBSD Handbook, the core team "constitutes the project's 'Board of Directors', responsible for deciding the project's overall goals and direction as well as managing specific areas of the FreeBSD project landscape."

OpenBSD : News : Sniping at OpenBSD
Posted: ( Mon 9th Oct 2000 07:49:46[PM] UTC )
There was a reaction to the announcements by the OpenBSD developer team about the exploits that surprised me. The reaction was to imply that the developers had been hiding the truth about the exploits so as to not tarnish the reputation of OpenBSD.

OpenBSD : News : OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak
Posted: ( Fri 6th Oct 2000 12:44:45[AM] UTC )
For most open source projects, news of an overlooked security hole is simply part of the debugging process. But for the developers of OpenBSD, an operating system whose design motto is "secure by default," it's nothing short of an affront.

BSD : News : Two terabytes served in a day
Posted: ( Tue 3rd Oct 2000 05:55:43[PM] UTC )
According to TeraSolutions, the FreeBSD-powered ftp.freesoftware.com FTP server has surpassed a milestone of two terabytes of files downloaded per day from a single server machine. This milestone was set last week after the simultaneous releases of FreeBSD 4.1.1 and Red Hat Linux 7.0.