BSD & Darwin Archive

A source-code audit of the open-source operating system from which Apple Computer borrowed much of the code for Mac OS X revealed four vulnerabilities of varying severity in Apple's software, a security company said Monday.

PPCNerds has some news on the new images of the GNU-Darwin project now available, and includes a few screenshots.

An Update has been posted on the HawkinsOS web site. It discusses the purpose of the operating system and why it has been delayed.

David Rhodus has posted an interesting writeup about the intergration of OpenNTPD into DragonFly over at GoBSD.com.

There's a new DragonFlyBSD "distro". It's called GoBSD and you can download it here.

As always after a minor OSX revision, Apple has posted updated sources for Darwin.

The September issue is out and Matt Dillon of DragonFly is featured.

MirOS BSD originated as a patch set against OpenBSD-current, a 4.4BSD-derived ultra secure operating system. This release includes bugfixes and enhancements for many system components, including libc, ld.so, ntpd, make, and others. There is support for PowerNow on AMD Athlon / Athlon XP systems. libexpat is in the base system now. gcc support for C++ and other languages is still missing.

Apple computer posted on the open-source section of its site a list of softwares included in the next version of Darwin, 8.0 (currently in beta). Here a glance at the new software included.

Formerly known as SilverOS (previously featured on OSnews), FireFly is a commercially supported BSD system based on DragonFlyBSD. You can read the FireFly whitepaper here.

Australian Peter Mitchell has written up a description of his efforts to use XDarwin in combination with KDE. In his article, he describes the command line installation steps for running GNOME and KDE using XDarwin as the windowing layer. He describes both the challenges he faced and some suggestions as to the best order in which to install the various components necessary to run GNOME and KDE environments on Mac OS X. Also, the XDarwin project is to switch from XFree86 to X.org.

I manage computers running BSD variants every day, at work and at home. After many man page and RTFM iterations to support vital administrative aspects, a desire grew to understand what lay beneath my level of expertise. As eager as I was, I found the prospect of simply plunging into a lengthy code review unappealing.

"Don't mistake DragonFlyBSD 1.0A for a complete, finished, polished operating system. At this stage of development, DragonFlyBSD isn't good for much, as it has problems with SMP on systems that use Hyper-Threading Technology, and the XFree86 port (among others) didn't compile properly for me despite using the special compatibility overrides." Read the review at NewsForge.

ekkoBSD's site seems to be closing doors, but there is not enough information about it.