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OpenBSD 4.0-beta

Yesterday I update OpenBSD 3.9 on my laptop to the latest snapshot. Here is diff against 3.9 and 4.0-beta `dmesg':

-OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #617: Thu Mar  2 02:26:48 MST 2006
+OpenBSD 4.0-beta (GENERIC) #1055: Thu Aug  3 11:39:24 MDT 2006
-cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,SBF
-real mem  = 258449408 (252392K)
-avail mem = 228835328 (223472K)
+cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,SBF
+real mem  = 258437120 (252380K)
+avail mem = 228171776 (222824K)
-bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(66) BIOS, date 06/29/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd540
+bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(66) BIOS, date 06/29/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd540, SMBIOS rev. 2.31 @ 0xdf810 (27 entries)
+bios0: Acer TravelMate 2300
-"unknown" at iic0 addr 0x18 not configured
-auich0: measured ac97 link rate at 48001 Hz, will use 48000 Hz
+auich0: measured ac97 link rate at 47998 Hz, will use 48000 Hz
/me at Undeadly

Package testing time news post on Undeadly regarding porters call for users to test the latest snapshot packages and the ports tree itself.

OpenBSD ports tree lock

The ports tree closed for new imports and updates. Everyone can help make a better release, by testing package snapshots. Report any problems.

OpenBSD 4.0 coming soon...

OpenBSD CVS HEAD has changed to 4.0-beta.

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org	2006/07/26 14:34:11

Modified files: distrib/miniroot: install.sub etc/root : root.mail share/mk : sys.mk share/tmac/mdoc: doc-common sys/arch/macppc/stand/tbxidata: bsd.tbxi sys/conf : newvers.sh sys/sys : param.h

Log message: crank to 4.0-beta

2 Aug 2006 (updated 2 Aug 2006 at 06:42 UTC) »
Google Hosting

Google launch its source code hosting with Subversion repository for open source projects only. Here is Project Hosting Frequently Asked Questions.

I use Picasa Web now. Google give 250Mb space for free, photos can be uploaded using browser (not only from Picasa!).

My Public Gallery

Today i find very useful utility for managing and monitoring various services, auto checking files checksum and timestamps and other interesting things. This program provide a built-in web interface, wap support and e-mail alerts.

Here is homepage: Monit.

Today i install Monit on many critical server on my work. This tool just work.

25 Jul 2006 (updated 3 Aug 2006 at 17:20 UTC) »

I'm on vacation now.

Two day ago I make my first port for OpenBSD. The best Xkb indicator, useful for light window manages (fluxbox, Window Maker, IceWM, etc) users, now can be installed from package. For making port some patches work was needed, strcpy() to strlcpy() and sprintf() to snprintf() changing in source code before compiling.

Port Description openbsd-ports message

I found new for me and very interested option in Pure-FTPd: AntiWarez, which disallow download by anonymous users for files, owned by anonymous user.

3 Jul 2006 (updated 25 Jul 2006 at 17:55 UTC) »

GNOME Deskbar Applet is a really nice feature, very useful for me. Extending by self-written Python scripts (handlers), examples availible on GNOME Wiki.

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