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a new FreeBSD Portmgr is born

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Oliver Herold

Martin Wilke has been one of our active committers since receiving his commit bit today 3 years ago. He has been working in a number of subgroups including python, ports-security and the KDE team. FreeBSD ML Congrats to Miwi aka Martin Wilke. The … Continue reading →

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upgrade to OpenWrt 8.09

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Oliver Herold

I upgraded1 OpenWrt on my Wrt54GL to v8.09 — works like a charm. I’m using the 2.4.x kernel at the moment, because I’m not sure whether the 2.6.x variant is okay in terms of the Broadcom driver. The new frontend alone … Continue reading →

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Lackdose-Allergie: grml 2009.05 RC1

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Oliver Herold

Hi! We have new release candidates: the first release candidate of version 2009.05 codename «Lackdose-Allergie» is available! Take a look at the release announcement for details about all the nifty new features: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2009.05/ As usual we have different flavours available: the … Continue reading →

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ZFS v13 in FreeBSD 7 stable

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Oliver Herold

In case you missed the mfc: ZFS v13 in 7-STABLE. This means a major advance for FreeBSD 7 users in terms of quality and reliabilty. And if I’m correct you don’t even need tunables anymore, at least while using AMD64. Well, this … 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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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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Flock 2.0 on FreeBSD: test it while it’s hot

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Oliver Herold

Are you interested in some social webbrowser? It’s Mozilla Firefox under the hood together with some nice addons adequate for many social services in the well-known web 2.0. If so, then test it while it’s hot. Miwi and his Gecko-gang … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3.5b4, FreeBSD, Adblock Plus und NoScript

Posted on May 2, 2009 by Oliver Herold

Flugs mal wieder Firefox testen, insbesondere die neue Beta die sich Dank dem Einsatz von miwi und anderen unermüdlichen Mitstreitern in den Ports befindet, Adblock Plus und NoScript installieren … surfen, Seiten testen. Weit gefehlt, stach mir doch gerade dieser … Continue reading →

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mehr BSD …

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Oliver Herold

… verspricht Axel. Und zwar mehr NetBSD, mehr OpenBSD, mehr DragonflyBSD und bald auch gar noch Neues von FreeBSD. Wir dürfen also gespannt sein und harren der Dinge die da kommen werden :-)

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