OpenBSD Journal
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:40:58 GMT
On July 27th, Stefan Sperling (stsp@) added support for the multi-byte characters in the OpenBSD libc. Thanks to the work of the people involved in its development, the OpenBSD C library now supports the Unicode character encoding scheme UTF-8. Read on for the full commit message, some words from Stefan about what needs to be tested and how to do so:
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Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:07:31 GMT
In all of my interviews at c2k10, there were many things that kept coming up over and over again. One of those things was the release of 2.7 in June of 2000 and 2.8 in November. It was a period when many of the developers, tedu@ included, started to use OpenBSD. There is a reason for these two releases being so popular and a tipping point, so to speak, that attracted many thereafter.
Read on to find out more about tedu@ and learn what this attraction was all about:
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Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:12:54 GMT
With almost two days of hacking under their belts, everyone was
instructed to make their way to Bob Beck's (beck@) house for the
traditional BBQ event and Swedish beer hurling festivities. The food was
fantastic and the camaraderie undeniable.
Read on to find out more about the famous Annual OpenBSD BBQ and a lot more:
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Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:27:41 GMT
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has tagged 4.8-BETA (see here and here). Snapshots should be available soon for testing, check the mirrors for availability. Read below for the full commit messages:
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