Archive for the OpenBSD Category

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.