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The FreeBSD Quaterly Status Report for April-September 2009 is now online. It's always worth to have a look at it. For example there's a working port of Grand Central Dispatch, which Apple has released the source code for a few weeks ago. Or there is the libprocstat(3) project which …

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Theo de Raadt announced OpenBSD 4.6 on the openbsd-misc mailing list. The announcement gives an overview of the most important changes. For a detailed information have a look at http://www.OpenBSD.org/plus46.html. OpenBSD should be released on Oct 1st but has been delayed to Nov 1st …

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The PCI DSS is a worldwide security standard assembled by the PCI SSC. The organization was founded by American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa, Inc. The PCI DSS was created to minimize and prevent credit card fraud in any organization that processes credit card payments …

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Timo Sirainen announced Dovecot v2.0.alpha1 on the dovecot-news mailing list. It is not fully finished and polished but he states that it should work for most people. The core and main developer Sirainen already started using it without noticing any errors until now.

Dovecot 2.0 introduces according …

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The first antivirus program for Mac OS X came from Sophos. Other vendors waited until the Mac got more attention, not only to users but also to malware authors. These beautiful computer systems are nowadays not only used by graphic designers but also by developers, administrators and CEOs. Everyone who …

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