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by brynet 12y ago
OpenBSD's kernel virtual/physical memory system, uvm(9), already had the ability to set permissions on mappings. But the recent work done here is still substantial, API's were cleaned up and the W^X policy was applied in the
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by brynet 12y ago
That's right. W^X is a policy that memory is either writable or executable, but not both. OpenBSD uses this model in userspace, now it's being taken a step further and applied to kernel space.
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OpenBSD's kernel gets W^X treatment(marc.info)
168 points by brynet 12y ago|41 comments
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by brynet 12y ago
FreeBSD's binary packages aren't .pkg, but rather .txz (.tar + .xz). http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/All/2bsd-dif... : -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 626 Dec 31 1969 +COMP
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Software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project(mdocml.bsd.lv)
4 points by brynet 12y ago|0 comments
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by brynet 12y ago
By installing it. There are images for floppy/CD and USB media.
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by brynet 12y ago
You can also pick up Michael W Lucas' Sudo Mastery book, which is a nice companion to sudoers(5). https://www.michaelwlucas.com/nonfiction/sudo-mastery
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Sudo: you're doing it wrong [pdf](bsdcan.org)
2 points by brynet 12y ago|1 comments
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by brynet 12y ago
OpenBSD 5.5 and 5.6 include signify(1) for both signing and verifying signed files. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/...
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by brynet 12y ago
..and now here it is released! 5.6 is official. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=141486254309079&w=2
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by brynet 12y ago
Related to OpenBSD, and BSD in general. Peter N. M. Hansteen is auctioning off the first signed copy The Book of PF, 3rd edition. He will be supporting the OpenBSD Foundation by donating the amount raised. http://bsdly.blogspot.c
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by brynet 12y ago
You can order the 5.6 CD set from the new OpenBSD Store, there's also older sets and other swag. https://www.openbsdstore.com/cgi-bin/live/ecommerce.pl?site=... I want a Wireframe Puffy Coffee Mug.
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by brynet 12y ago
I use OpenBSD on my laptops and desktop. The KMS drm drivers have been improved for 5.6. So you have 2D/3D acceleration, and unlike with FreeBSD, Xorg just works without configuration out of the box. For a more "desktop" expe
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by brynet 12y ago
OpenBSD 5.6 isn't quite released yet, it's still not on the master site. The announcement will undoubtedly be going out soon though, and it's on a few mirrors if you wish to jump the gun.
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by brynet 12y ago
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man3/... http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/... http://cvsweb.openbsd.org&#
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OpenBSD's reallocarray extension
1 points by brynet 12y ago|1 comments
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by brynet 12y ago
I posted this in the reddit thread today, after being part of a larger discussion last week. Theo de Raadt co-created AnonCVS back in 1995/1996. He and Chuck Cranor from AT&T Labs Research published a paper in 1999 about it. Open
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by brynet 12y ago
OpenBSD was one of the first open source projects to make their CVS repositories public, you can read more about it in Chuck Cranor and Theo de Raadt's paper on Anonymous CVS. http://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-
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OpenBSD's new rcctl(8) utility(brynet.biz.tm)
8 points by brynet 12y ago|1 comments
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by brynet 13y ago
Bob Beck (beck@) has announced the Foundation has received over $100,000 in donations from users / companies in the past week. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139024400731106&w=2 A campaign page for 2014 has