FreeBSD has a new logo!
The winner is Anton K. Gural. His submission is.. Are you curious? Check here!
I like it a lot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Due to a sponsor unexpectedly dropping sponsorship of grsecurity while continually promising payment, development of grsecurity will cease.
Suck.
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 :-(
After one year, the FreeSBIE team has released the FreeSBIE 1.0 ``live', bootable, FreeBSD-based operating system.
Download it, burn it, boot it, use it!
Check my screenshots:
http://www.hup.hu/old/images/hup/FreeSBIE/freesbie.png
http://www.hup.hu/old/images/hup/FreeSBIE/freesbie1.png
http://www.hup.hu/old/images/hup/FreeSBIE/freesbie2.png
http://www.hup.hu/old/images/hup/FreeSBIE/freesbie4.png
http://www.hup.hu/old/images/hup/FreeSBIE/freesbie5.png
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
Announcement
Installation Guide
Release notes
Hardware notes
New exec-shield patch against vanilla 2.6.0-test7 kernel.
Leech from here.
