The OpenBSD project announced today plans to disable support for Intel CPU hyper-threading due to security concerns regarding the theoretical threat of more "Spectre-class bugs." Hyper-threading (HT) ...

The maintainer of open source Unix-like operating system, OpenBSD, has announced that it will disable hyperthreading on Intel CPUs because of security concerns. It claims that simultaneous ...

The fallout from last month’s allegations that the Federal Bureau of Investigations attempted to deploy backdoors in the OpenBSD operating system are continuing to echo through developer circles, as ...

The OpenBSD project has released version 4.4 of the popular descendant of the Unix-like Berkeley Software Distribution, the project's 25th release, featuring support for new hardware platforms, ...

The latest version of the Unix-like operating system OpenBSD aims to offer better hardware support and adds RAID management capabilities. Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of the ...

OpenBSD, the security-focused, BSD-based, open-source operating system, has announced that it is to disable Intel's Hyper-Threading (HT) technology in its latest release over concerns it could make ...

OpenBSD, one of the more prominent variants of the BSD family of Unix-like operating systems, will be released at the beginning of September, according to a note on the official OpenBSD website. Often ...

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Step-by-step instructions for installing OpenBSD 4.0 for Windows admins trying to do it for the first time. I’ve already had a lot of positive feedback on my support for OpenBSD in my recent column.

Ahead of schedule, OpenBSD 6.3 is now available for download. Originally planned to be released on April 15th, the OpenBSD team released it early as "all the components are ready". OpenBSD 6.3 can be ...

The U.S. military has pulled funding from a project involving OpenBSD, according to the open-source operating system’s project leader, who said he suspects it was in retaliation for antiwar comments ...