Slashdot: BSDNews for nerds, stuff that mattersKDE 4.1 Beta 1 Released- May 28, 2008 appelza contributed a link to Tuesday's announcement of the next step toward KDE 4.1: "The KDE Project is proud to announce the first beta release of KDE 4.1. Beta 1 is aimed at testers, community members and enthusiasts in order to identify bugs and regressions, so that 4.1 can fully replace KDE 3 for end users. KDE 4.1 beta 1 is available as binary packages for a wide range of platforms, and as source packages. KDE 4.1 is due for final release in July 2008." I haven't used KDE much for the...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBsd/~3/300065956/article.pl Code Quality In Open and Closed Source Kernels- May 16, 2008 Diomidis Spinellis writes "Earlier today I presented at the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering a research paper comparing the code quality of Linux, Windows (its research kernel distribution), OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD. For the comparison I parsed multiple configurations of these systems (more than ten million lines) and stored the results in four databases, where I could run SQL queries on them. This amounted to 8GB of data, 160 million records. (I've made the databases and...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBsd/~3/291726240/article.pl The 25-Year-Old BSD Bug- May 11, 2008 sproketboy writes with news that a developer named Marc Balmer has recently fixed a bug in a bit of BSD code which is roughly 25 years old. In addition to the OSnews summary, you can read Balmer's comments and a technical description of the bug. "This code will not work as expected when seeking to the second entry of a block where the first has been deleted: seekdir() calls readdir() which happily skips the first entry (it has inode set to zero), and advance to the second entry. When the user...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBsd/~3/288101824/article.pl OpenBSD 4.3 Released- May 1, 2008 An anonymous reader writes "OpenBSD 4.3 is now available! Released today, May 1, 2008, 4.3 introduces many new improvements and upgrades. The complete changelog is here. Torrents can be found here." As usual, this release is accompanied by a song.Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBsd/~3/281531534/article.pl |