I know it's a bit late in the month but Augusts London *BSD meeting will be held at the Cleveland Arms pub in Bayswater on Thursday the 26th, 7pm If you use upcoming, you can find the meeting details here ...

When I think about the names of people on mailing lists who have helped me solve difficult problems or learn something new, often I have no face to go with the name. In my day to day life I may have walked right past them without knowing, or saying hello, or more appropriately, asking to ...

Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has tagged 4.8-current. This means that we are one step closer to the upcoming OpenBSD 4.8 release. Keep an eye out for pre-orders! Read below for the full commit message: Read more... ...

Theo sent a request to misc@ asking for laptop donations. This time, developers are in need of NVIDIA-based hardware. In the past, you may have accidentally bought this kind of machine so this is an excellent opportunity to get rid of it and support your favourite OS at the same time! Please rea...

Landry Breuil (landry@) writes in with a fascinating and sorted tale of porting: Here's a tale about the Mozilla ports infrastructure, but it could be titled, "I needed the Lightning calendar extension for Thunderbird, and I ended up maintaining all Mozilla ports." I ...

Takuya Asada (syuu@) wrote in to say: Two OpenBSD developers Yojiro Uo (yuo@) and Yasuoka Masahiko (yasuoka@) work at a leading ISP in Japan called IIJ (Internet Initiative Japan Inc.). I was invited to visit IIJ's next-gen data center experiment facility where one of their experiments is run...

How leaders, managers, mentors and coaches motivate others towards a common goal is a very well researched topic. The methods typically used within entirely volunteer organizations center around exceedingly polite interactions, strong encouragement through accolades, and fairly gentl...

On the 1st of August, Marc Espie (espie@) announced on the ports@ mailing list that the ports tree has been locked, meaning that users are welcome to test and report bugs. Please read on for Marc's message: Read more... ...

Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has called out on the tech@ mailing list for aggressive testing the new ACPI suspend/resume code to be shipped in the upcoming OpenBSD 4.8 release. Please read on for Theo's message: Read more... ...

On July 27th, Stefan Sperling (stsp@) added support for the multi-byte characters in the OpenBSD libc. Thanks to the work of the people involved in its development, the OpenBSD C library now supports the Unicode character encoding scheme UTF-8. Read on for the full commit message, some words from S...