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47: DES Challenge IV
Coming up this week on the show! We've got an interview with Dag-Erling Smørgrav, the current security officer of FreeBSD, to discuss what exactly being in such an important position is like. The latest news, answers to your emails and even some LibreSSL drama, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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g2k14 hackathon reports
- Nearly 50 OpenBSD developers gathered in Ljubljana, Slovenia from July 8-14 for a hackathon
- Lots of work got done - in just the first two weeks of July, there were over 1000 commits to their CVS tree
- Some of the developers wrote in to document what they were up to at the event
- Bob Beck planned to work on kernel stuff, but then "LibreSSL happened" and he spent most of his time working on that
- Miod Vallat also tells about his LibreSSL experiences
- Brent Cook, a new developer, worked mainly on the portable version of LibreSSL (and we'll be interviewing him next week!)
- Henning Brauer worked on VLAN bpf and various things related to IPv6 and network interfaces (and he still hates IPv6)
- Martin Pieuchot fixed some bugs in the USB stack, softraid and misc other things
- Marc Espie improved the package code, enabling some speed ups, fixed some ports that broke with LibreSSL and some of the new changes and also did some work on ensuring snapshot consistency
- Martin Pelikan integrated read-only ext4 support
- Vadim Zhukov did lots of ports work, including working on KDE4
- Theo de Raadt created a new, more secure system call, "sendsyslog" and did a lot of work with /etc, sysmerge and the rc scripts
- Paul Irofti worked on the USB stack, specifically for the Octeon platform
- Sebastian Benoit worked on relayd filters and IPv6 code
- Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse did work with puppet, packages and the bootloader
- Jonathan Gray imported newer Mesa libraries and did a lot with Xenocara, including work in the installer for autodetection
- Stefan Sperling fixed a lot of issues with wireless drivers
- Florian Obser did many things related to IPv6
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