KernelTrap - OpenBSD

Quote: Most Of Us Prefer Not To Visit The US Now

Jeremy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:11:39 +0000

"The great majority of OpenBSD developers are from outside the United States, and I would guess that most of us prefer not to visit the US now thanks to the murderous foreign policy, authoritarian domestic surveillance, and invasive border control. You'll find few of us there. Personally I've been refusing invitations to go to, or even transit through the United States for about 6 years."

Quote: You Do Not Get What You Paid For

Jeremy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:35:16 +0000

"When you buy from Apple, you do not get what you paid for. Instead you get exactly what you got suckered into buying."

Quote: Doing the Right For Their Customers

Jeremy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:15:22 +0000

"I just imported ix(4), a driver for the Intel 82598EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters. It is based on Intel's ixgbe FreeBSD driver, with many local changes for OpenBSD.

Quote: Developing Really Fast And Hard

Jeremy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:51:21 +0000

"Development is really fast right now, because of the hackathon in Edmonton. We are testing as much as we can before we commit, but as always during these hackathon processes we really depend on our user community -- to track our changes and help spot the occasional bug we accidentally introduce. We are developing really fast and hard; please help us by testing really fast and hard too."

BSDCan 2008: Hardware Sensors Framework

Jeremy — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:09:21 +0000

Constantine Murenin offered a history of the OpenBSD hardware sensors framework during his talk at BSDCan 2008, describing how it was originally based on a port from NetBSD, then evolved and was eventually ported to all the BSDs. He also discussed his own involvement with the framework, having ported it from OpenBSD to FreeBSD as a Summer of Code project, and how his port was merged into DragonFly BSD. At the end of the talk, there were some interesting ecxhanges between Constantine and Poul-Henning Kamp, the latter explaining why he'd had the code backed out of FreeBSD and why he continues to oppose it being merged back in.

Quote: Then You Should Not Be A Programmer

Jeremy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:48:51 +0000

"If you can't use strcpy and strlcpy correctly, then you should not be a programmer."

C2K8 OpenBSD Hackathon

Jeremy — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:01:51 +0000

"The OpenBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has completed arrangements with the University of Alberta in Edmonton to host the 2008 Annual OpenBSD Developer's Conference (C2K8 Hackathon) from June 7 to June 15, 2008," stated an announcement by the OpenBSD Foundation, continuing:

"The facility support from the University of Alberta Computer Science Department will provide C2K8 the best facilities yet for the annual OpenBSD Developer Conference. C2K8 will be the 10th annual event of its kind. Previous hackathons have produced tools such as the PF firewall, OpenBGP, relayd and spamd, as well as innumerable critical improvements to OpenBSD, OpenSSH, and related projects.

"This year, the OpenBSD Foundation will disburse approximately $15,000 to support C2K8, enabling more than 50 OpenBSD developers from around the world to attend this important event. The Foundation thanks all who have generously donated the resources to make C2K8 possible."