It's been just a bit over a month since pre-orders for 4.4 opened up and already the first sets have been spotted in the wild (OK, on my desk). As is commonly known, those that order early, get the set before the actual release date. Keep that in mind for 4.5 and for now, if you haven't already,...

Wim Vandeputte (wvdputte@) writes to tell us that EuroBSDcon registration is open. For the OpenBSD crowd there are a few highlights worth mentioning: Matthieu Herrb: Input handling in wscons and X.Org Edd Barrett: Modern Typesetting on BSD (LaTeX on OpenBSD ;-) Michael Dexter: Zen and the...

George Rosamond reminds us that NYCBSDCon is just days away: NYCBSDCon is an annual BSD Unix technical conference organized by the New York City *BSD User Group (NYC*BUG). Don't miss this great opportunity to expand your network amid the tumultuous economic environment. The conference schedule ...

As mentioned before, the Swedish OpenBSD crowd got yet another chance to meet for a OpenBSD conference this autumn. Here is my own view on the event: Read more... ...

c2k8 General Hackathon (Part 10) - June 7-15, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada I would like to diverge a little from past articles and give a little background on how these stories evolve and eventually get published; a little behind the scenes perspective, if you will....

There are 20 new ports for the week of September 1 to September 7: devel: p5-POE-Component-Pluggable graphics: liblqr graphics/gimp: liquid-rescale net: ruby-snmp mail: pyzor www: cherokee x11/gnustep: gworkspace devel: p5-Directory-Scratch devel: p5-Test-HTML-Tidy devel:...

Mitja Muženič submitted a nice story about the OpenBSD release cycle, here it is... With every new release more and more new users are attracted to Puffy and invariably there are questions regarding the OpenBSD release cycle and process. Although this is already well documented in the FAQ, ...

George R. writes in about this next month's BSD conference in New York City: We are proud to announce the release of the speaker's presentations and that registration is now open for NYCBSDCon 2008. The conference will be held at Columbia University on October 11 and 12 in Manhattan. The speake...

Henning Brauer (henning@) has just committed a new pseudo-device to OpenBSD-current. The pflow(4) interface exports IP accounting data over UDP that is compatible with NetFlow version 5. Please continue to read Henning's commit message and a brief introduction to pflow(4) usage. Read more... ...

A recent commit by Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) reveals that the European store is now open for OpenBSD 4.4 pre-orders. In order to make the project able to hold conferences such as the annual Hackathons and other events please help support it. If you haven't already, or you've been waiting to place ...