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Some time ago, there was a huge MIDI-related commit from Alexandre Ratchov (ratchov@). He has summarized his work in a new installment of OpenBSD Journal’s developer blog.
MIDI is for electronic musical instruments what Ethernet is for
computers. It is a slow (3125 bytes/s) unidirectional point-to-point
serial link between keyboards, synthesizers, hardware multitrackers and
so on. MIDI is aimed to allow one piece of equipment to control another one, possibly
making all of them cooperate on the same (typically music-related)
project. For instance, MIDI keyboards can send notes to
play to a synthesizer in real-time; or a hardware multitracker can send clock ticks
to a drum machine to stay in sync. The protocol is real-time, which
simply means that messages have to be executed as soon as they are
received, there are no timestamps involved.
Please read on for the rest of Alexandre’s story:
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Gilles Chehade (gilles@) commented on one of his own commits on the source-changes mailing list asking users of OpenSMTPD to submit information about any issues detected after the recent separation of virtual domains and aliases resolution code and instructions how to best make the transition.
Please see below for the comment:
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XMM exceptions are not correctly handled resulting in a kernel panic.
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On October 1st, Damien Miller posted an announcement to the announce@openbsd.org mailing list, informing the world about the release of OpenSSH 5.3. This marks the 10th anniversary of OpenSSH, one of the most widely used software packages around.
OpenSSH has come a long way since the fork of the once free ssh distribution. Today, it is the pillar of remote management everywhere. It is often used for secure file transfer, tunneling X11 clients and generic TCP sessions. OpenSSH is found in just about every OS out there (and if it’s not in yours by default, chances are good you can install the portable version) and is even used on a variety of network devices such as routers, switches and load-balancers.
It’s safe to say that millions rely on the security and confidentiality provided by this ubiquitous piece of software. It is a great example of high quality open source code. Please celebrate the 10 year anniversary by showing your appreciation with a donation to the project producing this excellent piece of software that is undoubtedly also part of the infrastructure at your company.
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Robert Nagy (robert@) wrote a quick note to the ports@ and tech@ mailing lists about the p2k9 hackathon that is currently in progress:
From: Robert Nagy
To: tech@openbsd.org
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:56:00 +0200
Subject: Thank you for making p2k9 possible!
Hello
p2k9 (the ports hackathon in Budapest) is on since Friday. People
are working on different things like GNOME, GCC4, BluRay support or
even ACPI.
I would like to thank everyone who donated money to the project because
the individual donors made it possible to organize this event.
So ... BIG THANKS GOES TO OUR USERS, to people supporting the project
even at these times.
I'd also like to thank NIIF and Sun Microsystems Hungary for lending
us a nice hackroom and hardware for the hackathon.
The results of the hackathon can already be seen by the massive amount of commits to the ports tree of the last few days. Events like these developers get together to work on parts of the tree together really help to make lots of progress in a short amount of time. So, thanks to all those guys in Budapest who are working hard to get us those easily installable third party software packages !
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Reader Sevan Janiyan (Venture37) contributed this little story about DEFCON 17:
Like previously reported in 2008, Wired has given us a brief insight into the DEFCON 17 network, where once again our OpenBSD is in charge of making sure everything runs smoothly.
See Dave Bullock’s Inside the World’s Most Hostile Network on Wired.
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A vulnerability has been found in BIND’s named server (CVE-2009-0696). An attacker could crash a server with a specially crafted dynamic update message to a zone for which the server is master.
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There were 11 new ports for the week of July 20 to July 26:
- archivers:
- audio:
- databases:
- devel:
- mail:
- net:
- productivity:
- www:
- x11:
Some ports had updates that users should be aware of; no port was removed.
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Pre-orders are now being accepted for OpenBSD 4.6, scheduled for release on October 1st, 2009.
The developers bring us an amazing amount of cool new stuff (PF now enabled by default, a new privilege-separated SMTP daemon, routing domain support and lots more).
Of course, t-shirts and posters are available too. Order your set NOW!
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Welcome to this years Swedish OpenBSD conference, the 2009 Slackathon!
It will be held August 15th at the Stockholm University, though not in
the same conference room as the previous years, since it couldn’t hold
all visitors anymore!
This year, there will be even more OpenBSD developers attending since
the 2009 Slackathon happens right after the f2k9 Filesystem Hackathon in Stockholm.
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