New Ports of The Week (June 29)

Contributed by maxime on Fri Jul 3 19:48:15 2009 (GMT) from the 4.5-stable dept. There were 5 new ports for the week of June 22 to June 28: databases: pear-MDB2-mysqli pear-MDB2-sqlite devel: p5-Devel-ebug editors: texworks lang: llvm-gcc4 Some ports had updates that users should be aware of; no port was removed. Some patches were backported to the 4.5-stable branch. Read more...

Heads up! OpenBSD-sgi does now support Fuel, Octane and Origin 200

Contributed by maxime on Mon Jun 29 13:22:18 2009 (GMT) from the mailing-list-that-is-not-archived-anywhere-on-the-Web dept. Miod Vallat (miod@) announced some days ago on the sgi@ mailing list that the OpenBSD Operating System does now run on SGI / Silicon Graphics Fuel, Octane and Origin 200. Owners of this kind of exotic hardware may want to give it a try. Here is Miod's message: Read more...

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Heads up! OpenBSD turns 4.6-BETA

Contributed by maxime on Mon Jun 29 11:07:20 2009 (GMT) from the β dept. Miod Vallat (miod@) has tagged 4.6-BETA. Snapshots should be available soon for testing, check the mirrors for availability. Read below for the full commit message: Read more...

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Call for Testing: pcc AMD64 Support

Contributed by Michael Dexter on Tue Jun 23 18:15:44 2009 (GMT) from the dept. Anders Magnusson (ragge@) has been quietly hacking on pcc and has committed AMD64 support which is in need of testing. As always, please report any bugs in the pcc bug database. The best bug reports are of the form "this particular code snippet doesn't compile" or "this expression generates wrong the assembler output". My sincere thanks to the nearly 75 donors who help fund this work. Please consider helping keep Anders going with a donation towards this work to produce a 1.0 release of this BSD-licensed compiler.

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Building a trade show booth with OpenBSD and PF

Contributed by marco on Tue Jun 23 18:01:47 2009 (GMT) from the dept. Every year for JavaOne, we have to put together a booth for Terracotta on the exhibitor floor. This year, I finally wrote up how we put that together with a little bit of glue, some random Linux laptops, and one OpenBSD box to rule them all. Enjoy

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active-active pf with pfsync

Contributed by dlg on Fri Jun 19 10:06:26 2009 (GMT) from the dept. A long time ago I started working toward supporting active-active stateful firewalls. I was fortunate enough to be able to do it as part of my studies, which had the unfortunate side effect that I had to write a paper about it rather than actually fixing the bugs in the code. However, I'm happy to say that I finally got it all working, ran it in production, and even committed to the tree. Read more...

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PuffyTron recommends OpenBSD 4.5

Contributed by Anonymous Coward on Wed Jun 17 15:49:49 2009 (GMT) from the dept. Later than usual here comes the traditional release interview for OpenBSD 4.5. It features many developers: Jacob Meuser, Alexandre Ratchov, Marc Espie, Mark Kettenis, Matthieu Herrb, Constantine A. Murenin, Kenneth R Westerback, Alexander Schrijver, Damien Miller.

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Developer Blog - pirofti@: The ACPI dance

Contributed by johan on Sat Jun 13 15:01:02 2009 (GMT) from the microsoft-owns-us-all dept. Lately there's been a lot of action going on in OpenBSD ACPI land. Things are slowly moving towards ACPI resume and suspend. Developer Paul Irofti (pirofti@) recaps on some of the changes while he also blogs about his first general hackathon and his experiences during it. Before I left for c2k9 I made sure I'd get as many ports updated (including as much of the ruby-* family as I could) so I could concentrate more on kernel coding. Sure I planned on working on wine too with ariane@, but she was too busy with kernel stuff as well, so I ended up doing mostly ACPI all hackathon long. As soon as I arrived I started meeting new people and associating names with faces. I was looking forward to meeting the ACPI people that I worked with for the last year. They were all sitting at a table. So I quickly squeezed in between them and started talking, asking, learning, hacking all day long. Read more...

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Heads up! ACPI suspend progress - Help Needed!

Contributed by johan on Sat Jun 13 14:07:00 2009 (GMT) from the you-do-what-bob-tells-you-to-do dept. Developer Bob Beck (beck@) sent the below explanation of what is needed for the ACPI-hackers to move along with their plans on implementing support for ACPI suspend and resume in OpenBSD. Among a lot of other cool things that have been done at c2k9 in the last week, the dreaded table of ACPI hackers (jordan@, pirofti@, marco@, and mlarkin@) managed to make some great progress toward making our ACPI stack a lot more usable. This includes making acpidock(4) work so you can dock and undock and many device fixes. Please read on for the full story. Read more...

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