Tag Archives: BSD

FreeBSD 8.1 RC1

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Oliver Herold

So ganz still und leise hat just der erste RC von FreeBSD 8.1 das Licht der Welt erblickt und die Builds für die einzelnen Architekturen finden sich auch schon auf den Mirrors. Mehr dazu erfährt man in Ken Smiths Ankündigung. … Continue reading →

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UNIX — live free or die

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Oliver Herold

Danke an The Open Group, das heißbegehrte Schild kam heute morgen an :-)

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nerds at the bar

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Oliver Herold

… ein echter Bulo :-]

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Vista, photography, work, pain, professionalism …

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Oliver Herold

Well no rant at all, at least not the usual FUD about Vista the ressource hog or anything else. But do I really have to wait several hours just to install about 300MB updates and two service packs? Vista itself is … Continue reading →

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scrypt — a new key derivation function

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Oliver Herold

In the context of hardware brute-force attacks, scrypt is thousands of times more secure than existing «best practice» solutions such as bcrypt and PBKDF2; in fact, under reasonable assumptions it is provably as strong as possible. In addition to the … Continue reading →

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Kylin: FreeBSD under the hood

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Oliver Herold

FreeBSD, das OS der bösen Kommunisten — mehr bei Axel. Die Volksrepublik China verwendet FreeBSD als Betriebssystem, genannt Kylin. Übrigens ist das nichts neues, schon Kuba bastelt seit einiger Zeit an einer eigenen Linux Version. Update: anscheinend ist das schon … Continue reading →

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custom FreeBSD builds

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Oliver Herold

I believe this list (and probably the forums) would be the best place to announce one of my little projects, namely the building of custom FreeBSD install discs (DVD sized for desktops, CD sized for servers) with the latest release … Continue reading →

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VirtualBox für FreeBSD

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Oliver Herold

After the announcement from Alexander Eichner about Virtualbox on FreeBSD, we started the work on a port for FreeBSD. Now we think that we solved the most problems and are ready for the first Call for Testing. /usr/home/miwi Den Port für … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD: vierteljährlicher Statusreport

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Oliver Herold

Since the last Status Reports there has been interesting progress in FreeBSD Development. FreeBSD 7.2 was released just a few days ago. Some of the highlights include: Support for superpages in the FreeBSD Virtual Memory subsystem. The FreeBSD Kernel Virtual Address … Continue reading →

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BSDanywhere: OpenBSD Live-CD

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Oliver Herold

BSDanywhere is a bootable Live-CD image based on OpenBSD 4.5. It consists of the entire OpenBSD base system (without compiler) plus graphical desktop, an unrepresentative collection of software, automatic hardware detection and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and … Continue reading →

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