News

March, 2005

• New article: OpenSSL, a quick introduction to OpenSSL and X.509/PKCS#12 certificates.
• New paper: ISAKMPd and Openswan, or how to setup a VPN between OpenBSD and Linux.

February, 2005

• New paper: SWLAN, replace WEP by IPsec, or how to make your wlan more secure.

December, 2003

• New event: 20C3, the 20th Chaos Communication Congress Pictures by Martin Reindl

September, 2003

• New event: SUCON 2003, the Swiss Unix Conference 2003. Pictures by Sascha Welter

July, 2003

• New article: OpenBSD and qmail, an in-depth review of partitioning OpenBSD for qmail. By Han Boetes
• Anoncvs now available: For the insane cows out there that want our HTML code via CVS.

June, 2003

• Updated config section: more architectures and machines added.
• New article: sun4m tuning, by Martin Reindl

April, 2003

• New tutorial: cvs-mirror setup, by Martin Reindl

March, 2003

• New event: LinuxForum 2003 with pictures of Poul-Henning Kamp, Bill Cheswick and Daniel Hartmeier.
• New section launched: list of configs, dmesg outputs and tips for various OpenBSD platforms available.

February, 2003

• New article: OpenBSD on ibook, by Gilbert Fernandes
• New section launched: list of OpenBSD/*BSD consultants available for hire.
• New tutorial: Filtering mailing lists using procmail with mutt, by Xavier Santolaria
• New article: OpenBSD from a woman's point of view, by Elinor "Mala" Clark
• New Hebrew translation: About changing your root shell, by Elinor Clark
• The OpenBSDcow Network at FOSDEM, with nice pics of our heroes mirabile and Wim
• New tutorial: mail proxy with sendmail, by Martin Reindl

January, 2003

• New Hebrew translation: bmf with sendmail, by Elinor "Mala" Clark
• Public Launch, by your OpenBSD Cow Network team
• New Hebrew translation: automatic cvs up , by Elinor "Mala" Clark
• New article: serial login on i386, by Johan "griffin" Fredin
• New tutorial: Changing the root shell, by Han Boetes
• New Hebrew translation: cvsweb in chroot, by Elinor "Mala" Clark
• Happy New Year!

December, 2002

• Open.BSDcow.net launch.

March, 2005

OpenSSL:

An article about how to become a certification authority with X.509 certificates and OpenSSL is available.

ISAKMPd and Openswan:

A paper about how to setup a VPN between OpenBSD and Linux (with Openswan) is available.

February, 2005

Secured WLAN:

A paper about how to replace WEP by IPsec on a wireless network is available.

December, 2003

(2003-12-27) 20C3:

Pictures and videos of the 20th Chaos Communication Congress which took place in Berlin.

September, 2003

(2003-09-06) SUCON 2003:

Pictures of the Swiss Unix Conference 2003 which took place in the Swiss town of Zuerich.

July, 2003

(2003-07-19) OpenBSD and qmail:

A review about the partitioning layout for qmail on your shiny, new mailserver.

(2003-07-14) Anoncvs now available:

Our HTML code is now available via CVS. Just check out the instructions.

June, 2003

(2003-06-19) Config section updated:

Thanks to the many contributers that helped us extend our config section! It now covers nearly every architecture OpenBSD runs on.

(2003-06-18) New article added: tuning OpenBSD on a sun4m architecture machine.

An article on how to speed up OpenBSD on sun4m architecture machines and other mature boxen.

April, 2003

(2003-04-08) New tutorial added: cvs-mirror setup with sup.

This small walkthrough describes the setup of a cvs mirror for your local network. All you need is an OpenBSD box and quite some patience.

March, 2003

(2003-03-11) New event added: LinuxForum 2003 with pictures.

LinuxForum 2003 was recently held in Copenhagen with various interesting speakers, notably Daniel Hartmeier. Pictures were taken.

(2003-03-04) New section launched: list of configs, dmesg outputs and tips for various OpenBSD platforms.

This shiny, new section covers XF86Configs, various dmesg outputs and tweaks for OpenBSD platforms like i386 laptops and sparc desktop machines, check back frequently to see newly added configs and machines.

February, 2003

(2003-02-18) New article added: OpenBSD on ibook

This article covers the install CD preparation, installation, application of patches and creation of a custom kernel with a smaller framebuffer-based font for console on the ibook machine, using OpenBSD 3.2 ; find it here.

(2003-02-17) New section launched: list of OpenBSD/*BSD consultants available for hire

This page is aimed to provide a list of consultants available for hire and willing to work in an OpenBSD/*BSD environment.
If you would like to be added to this list, send a mail to cows@open.bsdcow.org with your related information.

Idea taken from NetBSD.org.

(2003-02-16) New tutorial: Filtering mailing lists with procmail and mutt

submitted by Xavier Santolaria. Find it here.

(2003-02-13) New article: OpenBSD from a woman's point of view

by Elinor "Mala" Clark. Nice reading, go for it!

(2003-02-13) New translation: Hebrew

Elinor Clark just translated the tutorial about why not to change the root shell into Hebrew. Thank you.

(2003-02-11) New pictures: FOSDEM 2003

Xavier Santolaria took the chance on Sunday, the second day of FOSDEM, to make some snapshots of Wim and mirabile which finally have made their way to the web page. Have fun!

(2003-02-04) New tutorial: sendmail proxy

Martin Reindl committed a tutorial about setting up a mail proxy using OpenBSD's sendmail.

January, 2003

(2003-01-28) New translation: bmf with sendmail

Once again, a Hebrew translation by Elinor "Mala" Clark of mirabile's bmf-sendmail tutorial.

(2003-01-27) Public Launch of this site

Today, this page went official and has been announced in our official support channel #bsdcow and sponsor channels #OpenBSD. It has also been announced at the OpenBSD Journal.
All references to IRC refer to the OPN/Freenode PDPC network.
There's a new section on the front page, "Link of the week", providing you with a suggestion every Monday.

(2003-01-18) New translation: automatic cvs up

mirabile's automatic cvs up has been translated into Hebrew by Elinor "Mala" Clark.

(2003-01-18) New article: serial login on i386

griffin@legonet.org sent us a small article about serial logins, thanks!

(2003-01-13) New tutorial: Changing the root shell

Should I change the default root shell or are there better ways? Provided by Han Boetes.

(2003-01-09) New translation: Tutorial

xsa's cvsweb in chroot has been translated into Hebrew by Elinor "Mala" Clark.

(2003-01-01) Happy New Year

The Open.BSDcow core team wishes you a Merry X-mas and a Happy Moo Year.

December, 2002

(2002-12-20) Open.BSDcow.net launch

Open.BSDcow launches its Website.