January 2003 Archives

Check out an interview with Emmanuel Dreyfus, a developer on the Mach/Darwin binaries on NetBSD. The interview covers the interesting topic of emulation, the legality of it, as well as the technical aspspect, and is a good quick read. The project is in need of support, so if you dig this sorta thing, sign up and help out!

"Patching is something that any OpenBSD administrator ought to do as soon as patches are available, because leaving your system unpatched is simply asking for trouble. OpenBSD and OpenSSH have recently become targets for hackers looking for new fields to explore, and we all need to be on guard."

The curious can check out the Early Adopter Guide and the release notes. Grab it from one of the FTP mirrors, or buy a CDROM from a vendor who supports the Project. Thanks to the Release Engineering Team for final buffing and polishing, as well as the committers and contributors who wrote the code.