PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD User Group

bsdevents: Aug 6-9, #freebsd-bugbusters on EFnet: #FreeBSD bugathon: http://ht.ly/2j1MP

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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bsdevents: Aug 5, Columbia, MD: CapBUG: http://ht.ly/2igrW

bsdevents: Aug 5, Dallas, TX: DWFUUG meeting: http://ht.ly/2igqm

bsdevents: Aug 5, San Jose, CA: SVBUG meeting: http://ht.ly/2igpa

bsdevents: Aug 5, Windsor, ON: WUUG meeting: http://ht.ly/2igo2

bsdevents: Aug 4, Leiden, Netherlands: BSD Monthly: http://ht.ly/2hP0D

bsdevents: Aug 4, Hamburg, Germany: BSD User Group Hamburg meeting: http://ht.ly/2hOZu

bsdevents: Aug 4, NYC, NY: NYCBUG meeting: http://ht.ly/2hOY2

bsdevents: RT @freebsdfndation: FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter: Our Semi-Annual Newsletter is now available. There's a lot of informa http://ht.ly/2hLAg

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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bsdevents: BSD was obviously in the OSCON house: http://ht.ly/2hnXh

bsdevents: New *BSD Planet Website: http://ht.ly/2hicB

bsdevents: @sevanjaniyan thanks! will do in future posts

bsdevents: Aug 3, Tempe, AZ: PhxBUG meeting: http://ht.ly/2hfTy

bsdevents: Aug 3, San Francisco, CA: SFOBUG meeting: http://ht.ly/2hfSd

bsdevents: Aug 3, Manchester, UK: Manchester BSD UG: http://ht.ly/2hfLZ

bsdevents: July 30 - Aug 2, #netbsd-code on IRC freenode: pkgsrc Hackathon: http://ht.ly/2gyJR

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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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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