A short while ago, Marc Espie (espie@) wrote to the ports mailinglist with a short rant about autoconf. His mail gives good insights into the problems porters face when dealing with GNU software, especially those using autoconf. Please read on for Marc's post: Read more... ...

Damien Miller (djm@) posted to announce@ with the announcement of OpenSSH 5.4. Some highlights of this release are the disabling of protocol 1 by default, certificate authentication, a new 'netcat mode', many changes on the sftp front (both client and server) and a collection of assorted bugfixes. ...

Some time ago, we featured an article with a request for hardware. Specifically, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (jasper@) was looking for a Lemote Yeeloong and Otto Moerbeek (otto@) had recently received one from a donor to work on the Loongson port. Jasper had his Yeelong sponsored by two donors ...

Seth Fulton writes in about the SCALE 8x conference in Los Angeles, that is happening at this moment: OpenBSD will be represented again this year at SCALE 8x in Los Angeles. Stop the exhibitor booth and say hi if you're attending, buy some merch, or perhaps ogle our fully clothed booth ba...

On January 12, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (jasper@) announced that the ports tree has switched in softlock mode, meaning that users were welcome to test and report bugs. Now, on February 17, he announced on the ports@ mailing-list that the ports tree has been locked for the upcoming OpenBSD 4.7 rele...

Recently, Claudio Jeker (claudio@) added his request for an iSCSI-capable SAN device to want.html. This was a fairly low profile addition to want.html, so David Gwynne (dlg@) made it more obvious with an e-mail to misc@. Please read on for David's full mail: Read more... ...

Bret Lambert (blambert@), your friendly OpenBSD hacker in Norway, writes in about some hardware requests that have been added to want.html recently. The requests focus on (for now) unsupported or partially supported hardware that is under active development. Machines like the Lemote Yeelong, mor...

Michael Dexter from the BSD Fund project writes in with an update on pcc developments: Anders Magnusson (ragge@) reports that pcc can now build a bootable OpenBSD -current x86 kernel and that amd64 support is coming soon. Your testing using a fresh snapshot is greatly appreciated. Please re...

Claudio Jeker (claudio@), our favourite network hacker from Zürich, Switzerland, writes in with a story about his work on ospf6d: A few days ago I decided it was time to enable ldpd(8) and ospf6d(8) in the builds since without additional attention they will never get finished. ldpd still...

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