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January-March, 2011 Status Report

April 27, 2011 by Rob

The January-March, 2011 Status Report is now available with 34 entries.

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FreeBSD 8.2 Released

April 5, 2011 by Rob

meta coder writes with word of the release of FreeBSD 8.2: “This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights includes improvements in Xen support and various bugfixes.”

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De Raadt Doubts Alleged Backdoors Made It Into OpenBSD

April 5, 2011 by Rob

itwbennett writes “In follow-up to last week’s controversy over allegations that the FBI installed a number of back doors into the encryption software used by the OpenBSD operating system, OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt said on a discussion list Tuesday, that he believes that a government contracting firm that contributed code to his project ‘was probably contracted to write backdoors,’ which would grant secret access to encrypted communications. But that he doesn’t think that any of this software made it into the OpenBSD code base.”

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FreeBSD Running On PS3

April 5, 2011 by Rob

An anonymous reader writes “One week after Sony’s PlayStation 3 private cryptography key was obtained, FreeBSD is up and running on the PS3. Nathan Whitehorn writes: ‘Yesterday, I imported support for the Sony Playstation 3 into our 64-bit PowerPC port, expanding our game console support into the current generation. There are still a few rough edges due to missing hardware support, but the machine boots and runs FreeBSD stably. These rough edges should be smoothed out in time for the 9.0 release.'” Update: 01/10 15:04 GMT by KD : As several commenters have pointed out, the submission was misleading in that BSD runs in OtherOS, making no use of the cracked keys.

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KDE 4.6 Beta 1 – a First Look

April 5, 2011 by Rob

dmbkiwi writes “The first beta release of KDE SC 4.6 was released yesterday. OpenSUSE had packages up almost immediately, so being curious as to what’s new, I’ve downloaded and upgraded to the new release. These are my impressions thus far.”

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FBI Alleged To Have Backdoored OpenBSD’s IPSEC Stack

April 5, 2011 by Rob

Aggrajag and Mortimer.CA, among others, wrote to inform us that Theo de Raadt has made public an email sent to him by Gregory Perry, who worked on the OpenBSD crypto framework a decade ago. The claim is that the FBI paid contractors to insert backdoors into OpenBSD’s IPSEC stack. Mr. Perry is coming forward now that his NDA with the FBI has expired. The code was originally added ten years ago, and over that time has changed quite a bit, “so it is unclear what the true impact of these allegations are” says Mr. de Raadt. He added: “Since we had the first IPSEC stack available for free, large parts of the code are now found in many other projects/products.” (Freeswan and Openswan are not based on this code.)

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BSD Coder Denies Adding FBI Backdoor

April 5, 2011 by Rob

jfruhlinger writes “Theo de Raadt has made the shocking claim that OpenBSD includes a backdoor that the FBI paid coders to build. Brian Proffitt has tracked down one of the programmers named as being on the FBI payroll (actually, he tracked down two programmers with the same name). Both deny working with the FBI.”

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GNOME 3.0 Delayed Until March 2011

April 5, 2011 by Rob

Julie188 writes “GNOME 3.0 was scheduled to be released in September but during the developers conference, GUADEC 2010 in Den Haag, the organization had to face facts: the much ballyhooed GNOME Shell really wasn’t ready. The Shell is supposed to bring ‘a whole new user experience to the desktop.’ So now, in September, what users will see is GNOME 2.32, distributed as a new stable release. Next target date for 3.0: March 2011.”

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OpenBSD 4.8 Released

April 5, 2011 by Rob

Mortimer.CA writes “The release of OpenBSD 4.8 has been announced. Highlights include ACPI suspend/resume, better hardware support, OpenBGPD/OpenOSPFD/routing daemon improvements, inclusion of OpenSSH 5.5, etc. Nothing revolutionary, just the usual steady improving of the system. A detailed ChangeLog is available, as usual. Work, of course, has already started on the next release, which should be ready in May, according to the steady six-month release cycle.”

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NetBSD 5.1 Released

April 5, 2011 by Rob

jschauma writes “NetBSD 5.1 has been released. NetBSD 5.1 is the first feature update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It includes security and bug fixes, as well as improved hardware support and new features. Some highlights include: RAIDframe parity maps, which greatly improve parity rewrite times after unclean shutdown; X.Org updates; Support for many more network devices; Xen PAE dom0 support; Xen PCI pass-through support. For a full list of all changes, please see the release announcement. NetBSD 5.1 is dedicated to the memory of Martti Kuparinen, who was the victim of a traffic accident in June 2010.”

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