by Cao | Dec 17, 2014 | FreeBSD, OpenBSD, X vs Y
This blog post by Guillaume Kaddouch compares the security capabilities of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. OpenBSD and FreeBSD are both great OS that I admire and use. OpenBSD is considered more secure since it is its main goal, but FreeBSD can be tweaked to be pretty well...
by Cao | Aug 6, 2014 | bsdnow.tv, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Kris Moore and Allan Jude interview Brent Cook, a new OpenBSD developer, about a portable version of LibreSSL. In addition, they discuss the FreeBSD port of LibreSSL. Check out the official page here:...
by Cao | May 5, 2014 | OpenBSD
The developers of OpenBSD have just released version 5.5. This release includes the feature time_t being made available for 64 bits on all platforms, improvements to the installer, improved hardware support, and various changes to the network stack. In addition, there...
by Cao | Apr 24, 2014 | OpenBSD
The OpenBSD team has started its own fork of OpenSSL, due to the backlash from the Heartbleed bug. The new project will be called LibreSSL, and is based on OpenSSL 1.0.1g. The team has already begun working on a major clean up of the code. The following list outlines...
by iXsystems | Nov 2, 2012 | (Free)BSD links wrap-up, M0n0wall, OpenBSD, pfSense
Welcome to the weekly (Free)BSD news round-up (week 44) where we have a mix of news snippets, links, howto’s and software/package updates for you all. These tid-bits are all very interesting and news worthy, yet too small to package as individual posts. FreeBSD News A...
by iXsystems | Oct 2, 2012 | FreeBSD, OpenBSD
Gleb Smirnoff writes on the FreeBSD PF Mailing List about a some improvements he has made to make Packet Filter (PF) SMP-scalable and faster: “As you already may now, last half a year I’ve been working on making pf SMP-scalable and faster in general. More...
