20 years since “and we’re just starting”: undeadly.org turns 20 (2024-04-09)
At that point in our history, we had been enjoying frequent updates to the OpenBSD Journal at the deadly.org site for more than four years, and most of us thought it was an April’s Fool prank when the the editors announced that they were ceasing publication, effective immediately on April 1st, 2004.
Fortunately, Daniel Hartmeier quickly realized the announcement was not a joke, and went to work on a functionally equivalent CGI binary written in C and negotiated to take over the archive of existing articles. The rescued (resurrected?) site went live at undeadly.org on April 9th, 2004.
At the time, the eagerly anticipated upcoming release was OpenBSD 3.5 (which we covered on April 30th of that year). As the release song strongly hints, the introduction of the CARP redundancy protocol was a major item in that release. The release also introduced the OpenBSD/amd64 platform, and included a number of improvements in hardware support and security, with privilege separation introduced in several daemons and important utilities. All the details can be had at the OpenBSD 3.5 release page.
It’s been 20 years, what have we got to show for it?
We hope you have been enjoying the site’s updates, and we hope that undeadly.org has been a positive factor in promoting all things OpenBSD. The site and its editors have every intention of going on running the site.
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All the best from the undeadly.org editors.
