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Some OpenBSD/zaurus news

Posted by Norbert on Sun Nov 26 17:54 PHT 2006
From the "they called it bsd, and open because its always free!" section

Just want to give some OpenBSD/zaurus news...

Uwe commited several new stuffs in the zaurus port of the current source tree, like USB logical device (usbf) support, CDC ethernet function (cdcef) support, and NAND flash (flash0) support.

BTW, all of these new stuffs (usbdf, cdcef, and flash0) has been enabled on the GENERIC kernel.

More Zaurus photos

Posted by Norbert on Fri Nov 24 11:58 PHT 2006
From the "my little openbsd system" section

Here are some photos of my Sharp Zaurus SL-C3200 running OpenBSD/zaurus. I wasn't able to explore the default operating system included in the Zaurus because I installed OpenBSD on this machine few minutes after receiving the Zaurus (and that's my primary purpose for purchasing a Zaurus - to install and run OpenBSD onto it :-)

My two Zs (my Zaurus and my Zippo :-)

A closer look...

Running evilwm as the window manager and GAIM

Zaurus with the Toshiba Satellite, both booting OpenBSD :-)
Zaurus and Toshiba Satellite, both booting OpenBSD

My Zaurus while compiling GAIM (this photo was taken using my officemate's Nokia N70)

My Zaurus has arrived!

Posted by Norbert on Thu Nov 9 15:03 PHT 2006
From the "my little openbsd system" section

It's my birthday today and I've just received the gift for myself - a Sharp Zaurus SL-C3200! It just arrived today (thanks Kaneda-san). I'll install OpenBSD on this little machine later.

Here are some specs of the Sharp Zaurus SL-C3200:

Processor Type     : ARM (PXA27x step C-5 Xscale core)
Memory             : 128MB flash memory/64MB SDRAM
Display            : 640x480 resolution, 3.7 type 65k colors
                     penetrated type system back-lite LCD,
                     touch screen
Hard Disk          : 6GB Hitachi micro drive (internal)
Connection Terminal: USB port, headphone terminal (3.5phi)
Infrared           : IrDA (115kbps)
Card Slot          : CF slot Type II, SD card slot
Power supply       : DC3.7V Lithium ion battery (included)

This Zaurus model is used to be only on sale in Japan (so as other older models like SL-C3000 and SL-C3100), but can be ordered online via various sites.

I'll post more photos soon!

My OpenBSD audio CD

Posted by Norbert on Thu Nov 2 15:21 PHT 2006
From the "they called it bsd, and open because its always free!" section

My OpenBSD audio CD has arrived! It contains OpenBSD release songs from 3.0 to 4.0. This CD also contains a bonus track entitled "OpenVOX" by Ty Semaka, explaining how Ty is involved in the development of each OpenBSD release art.

For more information about the contents of this CD, you may go to...

http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

You can order this audio CD and other OpenBSD goodies at...

http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html

By the way, a cool wireframe Puffy sticker was also included in the CD :-)

Clonable pflog(4), etc.

Posted by Norbert on Thu Oct 26 23:52 PHT 2006
From the "they called it bsd, and open because its always free!" section

There are many commits to pf in the OpenBSD current source tree this past few weeks. Aside from the implicit 'flags S/SA' and 'keep state' (that can be overriden by 'no state') to a filter rule and allowing 'quick' keyword to an anchor rule, the pflog(4) device is now a clonable interface. I can now log a certain set of hosts (or a certain rule) to a certain pflog interface. For example...

block log (to pflog9) all
...
block in log (to pflog1) on $ext_if proto tcp from <banned> to $ext_if
pass in log (to pflog2) on $ext_if proto tcp from <allowed> to $ext_if
...

This is pretty cool! And I can have up to 16 pflog interfaces! I'm currently experimenting this feature now.

BTW, rthreads syscalls was commited to libc. A response to Ben Hawkes' RUXCON presentation was also commited to libc and is enabled by default.