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News from the FreeBSD Project FreeBSD Foundation July 2010 Newsletter New committer: Baptiste Daroussin (ports) FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Available April-June, 2010 Status Report New committer: Andrew Turner (src) PC-BSD 8.1 Released New committer: Tijl Coosemans (src) New committer: Joseph S. Atkinson (ports) New FreeBSD Core Team elected FreeBSD 8.1-RC2 available OpenBSD Journal The OpenBSD Community. Heads up! OpenBSD now supports multi-byte characters! On July 27th, Stefan Sperling (stsp@) added support for the multi-byte characters in the OpenBSD libc. Thanks to the work of the people involved in its development, the OpenBSD C library now supports the Unicode character encoding scheme UTF-8. Read on for the full commit message, some words from Stefan about what needs to be tested and how to do so: Read more...[c2k10] (Part 5) In all of my interviews at c2k10, there were many things that kept coming up over and over again. One of those things was the release of 2.7 in June of 2000 and 2.8 in November. It was a period when many of the developers, tedu@ included, started to use OpenBSD. There is a reason for these two releases being so popular and a tipping point, so to speak, that attracted many thereafter. Read on to find out more about tedu@ and learn what this attraction was all about: Read more...[c2k10] The Hackathon BBQ (Part 4) - June 25 - July 3, 2010, Edmonton, Albert... With almost two days of hacking under their belts, everyone was instructed to make their way to Bob Beck's (beck@) house for the traditional BBQ event and Swedish beer hurling festivities. The food was fantastic and the camaraderie undeniable. Read on to find out more about the famous Annual OpenBSD BBQ and a lot more: Read more...Heads up! OpenBSD turns 4.8-BETA Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has tagged 4.8-BETA (see here and here). Snapshots should be available soon for testing, check the mirrors for availability. Read below for the full commit messages: 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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