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FreeBSD 's new logo

Submitted by gmicsko
on November 1, 2005 - 1:23pm

FreeBSD has a new logo!

The winner is Anton K. Gural. His submission is.. Are you curious? Check here!

I like it a lot.

OpenBSD 3.8 released / unofficial install ISOs

Submitted by gmicsko
on November 1, 2005 - 12:32pm

Theo de Raadt announced the official release of OpenBSD 3.8 with significant improvements in nearly all areas of the system. OpenBSD 3.8 can be downloaded from the project's ftp mirror sites.

You can grab unofficial, and of course unsupported OpenBSD 3.8 install ISO images from Hungarian Unix Portal.

OpenBSD 3.7 released!

Submitted by gmicsko
on May 19, 2005 - 2:23pm

OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt has announced the release of the OpenBSD 3.7. Read the announcement here. You can o.r.d.e.r install media here or you are able to access 3.7 stuff via FTP.

SuSE Linux 9.3 Prof screenshots

Submitted by gmicsko
on April 4, 2005 - 12:44pm

If you curious, you can find some (80+) screenshots of SuSE Linux 9.3 Professional here. Novell shipping 9.3 stuff within the next two weeks. Stay tuned.

Kernelplanet

Submitted by gmicsko
on March 30, 2005 - 3:48pm

New kernel related blog portal started. Bloggers: Alan Cox, Dave Airlie, Dave Jones, David Woodhouse, Greg Kroah-Hartman, James Morris, Pete Zaitcev, Robert Love, ... LKML announcement here.

Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition online

Submitted by gmicsko
on March 15, 2005 - 5:28am

The third edition of Linux Device drivers (by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and
Greg Kroah-Hartman) is now available online. For the moment, it is only available in PDF format, but HTML conversion and DocBook source is on the way. The book is freely redistributable under the (GPLish) Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. You can download the whole stuff form lwn.net. Jonathan Corbet's original announcement here.

A hír elolvasható magyarul értőknek a HUP-on itt.

Weird tar archives on ftp.openbsd.org

Submitted by gmicsko
on February 20, 2005 - 8:29am

Some tarball on ftp.openbsd.org, in i386 snapshots directory seems corrupted. MD5 sums of packages are not match with the official MD5 file.

More info here.

Interview with author of FUSE

Submitted by gmicsko
on January 15, 2005 - 6:31pm

If you understand Hungarian, you can read here an interesting interview with Miklos Szeredi, author of FUSE.

In nutshell: FUSE exports the filesystem functionality to userspace. The
communication interface is designed to be simple, efficient, secure
and able to support most of the usual filesystem semantics.

Local root vulnerability in ALL recent Linux kernel versions

Submitted by gmicsko
on January 7, 2005 - 12:03pm

Synopsis: Linux kernel uselib() privilege elevation
Product: Linux kernel
Version: 2.4 up to and including 2.4.29-rc2, 2.6 up to and including 2.6.10
Vendor: http://www.kernel.org/
CVE: CAN-2004-1235
Author: Paul Starzetz
Date: Jan 07, 2005

More info here. Working exploit in wild!

Use 2.4.29-rc1!

Grsecurity development ceased

Submitted by gmicsko
on May 31, 2004 - 3:39pm

Due to a sponsor unexpectedly dropping sponsorship of grsecurity while continually promising payment, development of grsecurity will cease.

Suck.

Befejeződött a Grsecurity fejlesztése

Installing OpenBSD 3.5 step-by-step (tutorial)

Submitted by gmicsko
on May 2, 2004 - 11:09am

I've created an 30+ picture illustrated, step-by-step tutorial about recently released (2004/05/1) OpenBSD 3.5 installation process (for newbies). You can find here. Unfortunatelly only hungarian language, because my english is very bad :-(

NetBSD 1.6.2

Submitted by gmicsko
on March 2, 2004 - 5:24am

NetBSD 1.6.2 has been released!

You can download NetBSD 1.6.2 from a mirror site near you.

A complete list of changes are available here. Official announcement here.

(Magyarul beszélőknek itt. :-)

FreeBSD 4.9 Release now available

Submitted by gmicsko
on October 29, 2003 - 5:11am

FreeBSD 4.9 Release now available

Announcement
Installation Guide
Release notes
Hardware notes

exec-shield for 2.6.0-test7

Submitted by gmicsko
on October 10, 2003 - 11:42am

New exec-shield patch against vanilla 2.6.0-test7 kernel.

Leech from here.