Archive for the OpenBSD Category

09/12/2008
How it’s made: OpenBSD

Undeadly has an brief, interesting article up, written by Mitja Muženič, describing the OpenBSD releasing process.  Worthwhile reading if you are involved in any sort of release cycle.

06/29/2008
More LiveCDs are always good

Undeadly has an article noting that OpenBSD is getting in on the LiveCD game with BSDAnywhere.

10/17/2007
I <3 graphs

Something interesting: graphs of the commit activity for some (all?) of the OpenBSD committers.  (via ‘constant’ on #dragonflybsd)  I’d like to do the same for DragonFly.  Plus, GIANT DAEMON HEAD.

10/27/2006
OnLAMP: OpenBSD 4 details

OnLAMP.com has a 3-page interview with various OpenBSD developers about the features in the newest release.  The interview goes into interesting detail, and for relevance, some of the newer wireless drivers in DragonFly came from this code work.

06/12/2006
BSD == better support

Seen on KernelTrap, then OpenBSD Journal and then Slashdot: BSD support (specifically OpenBSD) hardware support is improving faster than Linux in some cases.

04/04/2006
OpenBSD gets money

Apparently the Mozilla Foundation donated US$10K to OpenSSH.  That’s good!  They still need money, though.

03/30/2006
deRaadt interview

Daemon News has an interview of OpenBSD’s Theo deRaadt, where he mentions DragonFly. The last response in the interview is also entertaining.

12/19/2005
OpenBSD ssh-only installer

Here’s something interesting: there’s an installer for OpenBSD called “YaifO“, which requires only SSH to work - no keyboard or serial access needed. Of course, there’s no binary, no docs, and no way to do it on a multiboot system… but the concept’s neat.