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This half-day workshop provides an introduction to the Game of Trees version control system. Game of Trees (Got) is a version control system which prioritizes ease of use and simplicity over flexibil...

Implements the sipi/init lapic state machine, mp IPI support and various other changes required for mp. vmctl and man page changes for new start and vm.conf options. tested by dv and me on various...

Josh Grosse <josh () jggimi ! net> ported 7zip 22.01 to OpenBSD back in September 2022. <ed () groovyexpress ! com> ported 7zip 26.03 and added 7za and 7zr. I added a 7z.1 man page. ...

Some folks love Christmas. These tales are for the rest of us. Ghosts and guns! Santa's coal mine! Final exams! Shopping! Plus an orc!

OpenNTPD hit the tree in 2004, so we're celebrating its 20th birthday (a few milliseconds late). motivation, state of time sync back then, initial design & implementation, reception: a misunder...

There are several hard problems still getting solved in pkg_add: a framework for objects common to several packages. Users, groups, configuration files and whatnot. The classic model of upgrade = r...

This includes also the OpenBSD 7.9 errata 002 and 015 (all the ones released as of today.) Restricted the characters allowed through when expanding variables with the raw modifier, both in the MDA...

This talk will present the current state of the input device "stack" on OpenBSD, and discuss some ideas for upcoming changes in order to get the console, X.Org and Wayland applications the best pos...

Embargoes create myth about security fixing. In OpenBSD we have an errata process to provide source and binary patches for stable releases. This requires a mixture of secrecy and fast acting. What ...

GEFS is a crash-safe, snapshotting, corruption-detecting, simple, and reasonably fast file system. It's built on a write-optimized data structure known as a Bε tree. Originally developed for Plan 9...

valid_uri() takes a length parameter and should honor that. Most uris passed are NUL terminated, but the ones coming from an ASN1_STRING are not guaranteed to be. Calling strstr() on a non-terminat...

Porting Linux to Apple Silicon

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