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  • Open-source team fights buffer overflows

    The OpenBSD project hopes new changes to its latest release will eliminate a software issue that has been plaguing security experts for more than three decades.

  • OpenBSD devs respond to Torvalds' monkey jibe

    OpenBSD developers have responded to comments made by Linus Torvalds that they are a "bunch of masturbating monkeys".

  • 25-year-old BSD bug found and fixed

    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 least 25 years old.

  • First 'stable' Wine puts Windows apps on Linux

    The makers of Wine, a compatibility tool that allows Windows applications to run on Linux machines without Windows installed, have released a stable version of Wine 1.0.

  • OpenBSD hit by 'critical' IPv6 flaw

    A vulnerability in the way OpenBSD handles IPv6 data packets exposes systems running the traditionally secure open-source operating system to serious attack.

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  • OpenBSD 3.3 released despite funding cut

    The latest version of the popular OpenBSD (Berkley Software Distribution) was released today, and is available for download from FTP sites.

  • Software tweak may make operating systems safer

    The OpenBSD project is making changes in its latest operating system release that it believes could eliminate a class of security bugs that has plagued computers for decades.

  • My PC wish list for 2003

    Isn't it time we took another Macintoshesque great leap forward in terms of personal computing, is 2003 going to be a year of computational revolution?

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