OpenBSD, one of the more prominent variants of the BSD family of Unix-like operating systems, will be released at the beginning of September, according to a note on the official OpenBSD website. Often ...

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A Unix developer has discovered and fixed a filesystem bug in Berkeley Software Distribution, a widely used, open-source, Unix-like operating system, discovering in the process that the bug was at ...

OpenBSD is expanding its support by finally being able to apply AMD CPU microcode updates. It was reported that this comes with the latest code, which supports the update with new abilities. OpenBSD ...

Microsoft's Azure platform has been getting a steady stream of updates this year, the most recent of which was the ability to recover IaaS VMs in case of a disaster. The latest enhancement for the ...

OpenBSD 4.0 was officially released this morning. OpenBSD is an open source operating system released under the BSD license. Used by approximately 30 percent of BSD users and recognized as the second ...

A new feature added in test snapshots for OpenBSD releases will create a unique kernel every time an OpenBSD user reboots or upgrades his computer. This feature is named KARL — Kernel Address ...

The open source Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) versions of UNIX suffer from a lack of eyeballs on their code, and that hurts their security, Ilja van Sprundel, director of penetration testing at ...

Wind River Systems plans to develop an embedded version of the BSD/OS operating system that it bought in mid April (see separate story). Before selling its software to Wind River, BSDi Software began ...