Pre-orders for 5.3

Pre-orders for 5.3 are activated! I think they are activated in the UK too (or will be very soon). Wonder if the first few pieces of art can lead to some guesses of the theme.

5.3 song released

Between pre-release and actual release, I always make the new song available with some fragments of the release artwork. This song was composed by my good friend Bob Kitella. http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#53

Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

Hi, yeah, it is really me. I find it strange posting to misc, starting an email thread. Normally I finish the threads here. Most OpenBSD developers have known for a while, but I think it is important to tell the greater community that I've been a bit busy for about the last year. I have not

Wanted in Calgary: Battery for Perc 6/i

If anyone in Calgary has a battery for a Dell Perc 6/i RAID controller available, we urgently need one. That's a Dell RAID card, they are the 3.7V 7A batteries with the multicoloured wire. (Urgently, as in I can't find anyone to get us one within 2 weeks; and the order placed a week ago still is

Request for Funding our Electricity

Hi everyone. The OpenBSD project uses a lot of electricity for running the development and build machines. A number of logistical reasons prevents us from moving the machines to another location which might offer space/power for free, so let's not allow the conversation to go that way. We are

One thinkpad still wanted

Jonathan Gray and Mark Kettenis are still missing one generation of Intel video. They need a Arrandale/Ironlake model. The Thinkpad x201 is the best laptop for this. They could use a laptop from a different vendor. To verify, pcidump -v will show that the HD Graphics device has a Product ID of

APU firmware

For those of you with PC-Engines APU systems, a BIOS which works a lot better can be found about halfway down http://pcengines.ch/apu1c.htm Good luck. I hope they have it on newly shipped boards..

Calgary, this Tuesday

I'm sorry for the late public announcement... Tomorrow (Tuesday) Bob Beck will be hurtling down the Highway from Edmonton to Calgary. Then in the evening, he and I will present at the local calgary unix group meeting about recent changes in LibreSSL, OpenBSD, and how the OpenBSD Foundation fits

new OpenSSL flaws

We are sorry that the errata for these libssl security issues are not up yet. The majority of these issues are in our ssl library as well. Most other operating system vendors have patches available, but that is because they were (obviously) given a heads up to prepare them over the last few

OpenBSD product distribution will move

At the end of September, OpenBSD distribution will move to a new distributor. As a result the old stock (CDs, Tshirts and posters) will become unavailable. Order them now, because they are going extinct! Last chance for some of those shirts..