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News from the FreeBSD Project Returning committer: Niels Heinen (ports) FreeBSD 7.3-RC2 Available New committer: Neel Natu (src) PC-BSD 8.0 Released FreeBSD 7.3-RC1 Available Enhanced commit privileges: Benedict Reuschling (full doc/www) New committer: Bernhard Schmidt (src) Enhanced commit privileges: Gábor Kövesdán (src, ports, doc) FreeBSD 7.3-BETA1 Available New committer: Bruce Cran (src) OpenBSD Journal The OpenBSD Community. OpenSSH 5.4 released Damien Miller (djm@) posted to announce@ with the announcement of OpenSSH 5.4. Some highlights of this release are the disabling of protocol 1 by default, certificate authentication, a new 'netcat mode', many changes on the sftp front (both client and server) and a collection of assorted bugfixes. The new release can already be found on a large number of mirrors and of course on www.openssh.com. Please read on for the full release announcement: Read more... Loongson port about to make 4.7 Some time ago, we featured an article with a request for hardware. Specifically, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (jasper@) was looking for a Lemote Yeeloong and Otto Moerbeek (otto@) had recently received one from a donor to work on the Loongson port. Jasper had his Yeelong sponsored by two donors and received his machine less than two weeks after the article was posted. Quite a few commits have hit the tree (eg. here, here, and here) since then, mostly from otto and miod for src/ and jasper for ports/ and it looks like the 4.7 release will feature an OpenBSD/Loongson port that should work on the Lemote Yeeloong, the Lemote Fuloong and the EMTEC Gdium. Undeadly followed up on the donations and asked Miod Vallat (miod@), Otto and Jasper about the porting efforts, please read on for their story: Read more... OpenBSD keepin' it real at SCALE 8x Seth Fulton writes in about the SCALE 8x conference in Los Angeles, that is happening at this moment: OpenBSD will be represented again this year at SCALE 8x in Los Angeles. Stop the exhibitor booth and say hi if you're attending, buy some merch, or perhaps ogle our fully clothed booth babe. (or celebrate the fact that we at least have one). If you live near LA and covet a last minute opportunity to attend the conference, I've got some extra passes to dole out if you'd like to help staff the booth for at least 4 hours on Saturday or Sunday. For more information contact Seth at 619-630-7384 Ports tree locked for 4.7 Update (Tue Feb 23 20:11:00 CEST 2010): Jasper has unlocked the ports tree for a select group of people for "a bit longer". On January 12, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (jasper@) announced that the ports tree has switched in softlock mode, meaning that users were welcome to test and report bugs. Now, on February 17, he announced on the ports@ mailing-list that the ports tree has been locked for the upcoming OpenBSD 4.7 release. Please read on for Jasper's message: Read more...[CaRP] php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known (0) Unix Review News, reviews, features, and commentary for Unix and Linux professionals. Shell Corner: Littera Delenda Est (Part Two) In this month's Shell Corner, Royce Williams provides part two of his attack on removing unusual characters in filenames. Regular Expressions: Python's Mechanization In this month's Regular Expressions column, Cameron and Kathryn look at using the dynamic language Python to handle specific automation needs. Elements of Efficient and Secure Service Provisioning with Solaris Westphal looks at the elements involved in building a server in Solaris 10 that will take advantage of all the available features. Test Your Knowledge of Users and Groups Emmett offers some questions to test what you know about user and group fundamentals. |
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