pkgsrc – Page 3 – DragonFly BSD Digest

John Marino has assembled a new packaging and building system. It’s called Ravenports, and he wrote a short intro, and has a filled-out site to go look at.

This is big news, in part because he knows what he’s doing (John worked on dports and created synth) and because it’s cross-platform. The prior work on synth is part of the reason DragonFly works so well under pressure – the “build everything as fast as possible as complete as possible” strategy makes a great stress test.

There’s no need to change software management strategies yet. It can be used at the same time as dports, so it doesn’t necessarily change anything for the next DragonFly release.

2017/09/022017/09/03

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/02

Lots of links this week – so many I’ve already started next week’s post.

FreeBSD 10.4-BETA available. I’m prewriting this part of the post so there may be a new beta by the time this publishes.
Introducing sandboxfs.
“TIL GhostBSD has a patreon” (via)
OpenBSD rtables and rdomains. (via)
Setting up OpenBSD’s LDAP Server (ldapd) with StartTLS and SASL. (via)
Ansible OpenBSD Cookbooks. (via)
This crazy hardware porting example thread led me to some new hardware, some of which may run a BSD? The Pinebook is apparently bootable but I don’t know if that means usable.
Also: using the audio port for serial? First time I heard of that. (referring to previous crazy hardware links above)
Eventually all packaging systems eat an operating system. And then they aren’t packaging systems any more. (via)
DFS with Freenas for data replication between multiple sites?
openbsd changes of note 627
yet another introduction to yacc
OpenBSD 6.1, a an overview.

2017/08/192017/08/18

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/19

I think I managed to avoid any theme this week.

2017/07/152017/07/14

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/15

Backlog: cleared.

Elvish: friendly and expressive shell for Linux, macOS and BSDs. Linked just because they bothered to mention BSD. (via)
acme.sh: getting free SSL certificates – installation configuration on FreeBSD.
Writing a NetBSD kernel module. (via)
ZFS Is the Best Filesystem (For Now…) (via)
Building an IPsec Gateway With OpenBSD. (via)
AF3e Status, 17 July 2017. That’s Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition.
Looking for a benchmark comparation between PF (OpenBSD) vs NPF (NetBSD)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2017Q2 release (2017-07-10). (via)
pkgsrcCon 2017 report and also slides/video. (via)
Recommend BSD to Thinkpad users? Can’t find an actual thread, though.
Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs. (via)
OPNsense 17.7 RC1.
OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop.

2017/06/102017/06/09

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/10

I think I’ve finally caught up on my BSD link backlog.

2017/05/272017/05/25

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/27

A good chunk of this is overflow from last week.

The iXSystems Kansas Linux Fest report. I’d like to see the slides they used.
PKGSRC at The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. (via)
Best free alternative to pfSense?
OpenBSD laptop.
Is there a more clear PacBSD installation guide?
GhostBSD 11 ALPHA having issues with MATE Desktop.
documentation is thoroughly hard.
Logical Domains on SunFire T2000 with OpenBSD/sparc64. (via)
Are there are BSD projects similar to Googles Fuchsia OS?
Any interest in porting TFS (the new ZFS clone in Rust) to BSDs? The most fun response.
Can’t get Thinkpad t450s trackpoint working on OpenBSD.
openbsd changes of note 622.
Devuan Jessie 1.0 released. It’s Linux, but important here because it’s without systemd. (via)
Support for Controller Area Networks (CAN) in NetBSD.
KnoxBUG meeting on May 30th. Sam Fourman talking about FreeNAS.

2017/04/082017/04/07

In Other BSDs for 2017/04/08

Why why why…

2017/02/252017/02/24

In Other BSDs for 2017/02/25

I measure the success of In Other BSDs by how many different BSD flavors I can reference. This is a good week.

Was thinking of switching to a BSD on my Thinkpad 11e, do you think this is a good idea?
Adblock on Pfsense
pfSense 2.3.3 RELEASE Now Available!
Review of RaspBSD (FreeBSD for Raspberry Pi computers)
NetBSD fully reproducible builds (via)
mandoc-1.14.1 released.
OpenBSD kernel lock removal for IPv4 forwarding. (via #dragonflybsd)
OPNsense 17.1.2 released.
OpenBSD Foundation 2016 Fundraising.
What happened to my vlan? (OpenBSD network performance, via)
GhostBSD version 11 Alpha 1.
NetBSD at the upcoming AsiaBSDCon 2017.
Now available: video recording of the recent “OS : The underlying overhead of computation” presentation at NYCBUG. (via)
Options to rid ourselves of MS Windows “servers”.
Easy pkgsrc on macOS with pkg_comp 2.0.
NetBSD 7.1_RC2 available.
The Heirloom Project. Chunks of that code are probably still present in all the BSDs. (via)
features are faults redux. Pseudo-transcript of a tedu speech not exactly about OpenBSD, but has plenty of funny one-liners.
“Hi, I’m jkh and I’m a d**k” I don’t 100% agree with the idea, but it’s still a good plan.

2017/02/182017/02/17

In Other BSDs for 2017/02/18

Lots of storage this week.

OpenBSD as a Multimedia Desktop
Firefox 51 on sparc64 – we did not hit the wall yet (via)
Current health of the BSD Certification Group?
When did tar start auto-assuming -z? Mild GNU vs. BSD argument.
Introducing pkg_comp 2.0 (and sandboxctl 1.0)
FreeNAS/OpenZFS training.
Michael W. Lucas at the Troy Public Library. Talking about his nonfiction writing.
2017 FreeBSD Storage Summit, coming up in 9 days. I’ll post a reminder. (via)
Related: TrueNAS does S3.
FreeBSD 12 Looking At Dropping SVR4 Binary Compatibility. Would anyone notice? (via)
Choose as a contributor: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or other BSD
Using device.hints to wire physical devices to specific names.

2017/02/042017/02/02

In Other BSDs for 2017/02/04

Note the end this week of pc98, the most focused of niche platforms.

2017/01/212017/01/20

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/21

Accidental theme this week: books.

11n support for athn(4) (via)
Relayd auction results
As a Nefarious Media Agent…
Sponsorships on “Httpd and Relayd Mastery” available
Understanding the modernization of the OpenBSD network stack, part 2: A story of if_get(9)
Thinking about switching from Linux to BSD for my everyday computer, and have a few questions.
Errata SECURITY FIX: January 5, 2017 (for LibreSSL)
FreeBSD UEFI Root on ZFS and Windows Dual Boot
Differences in pf between OpenBSD and FreeBSD?
BSDCan 2017 is in June – the Call for Papers is up, along with submission guidelines. (via)
OPNsense 17.1-RC1 released
pkgsrc-2016Q4 released
OpenBSD on Vultr. I’ve mentioned it being possible before, but this is an official announcement – it’s a supported platform. Spend your dollars there to encourage this. (thanks, Jeremiah Ford)
“Any good recent books?” You all know about these, right? I’ve mentioned them enough?

2017/01/072017/01/06

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/07

There’s always a rush of links after a holiday, as people sit at home and catch up on what they’ve wanted to do.

2016 computer review A lot of people like that X1.
For God’s sake, secure your Mongo/Redis/etc! This is why services don’t get automatically started after installation via ports/pkgsrc. (via)
openbsd changes of note 5
OPNsense 16.7.12 released
Lumina version 1.2.0 Released
Netgate Taps InfoSec Global for pfSense Code Review
A pretty splash screen for the Chrome Pixel and OpenBSD. (via)
Hotplugging RAM – uvm_hotplug(9), the Xen balloon(4) driver and portmasters’ FAQ
pkgsrc-2016Q4 released
This is why I try to be specific when talking about BSD book author Michael W. Lucas.
turn your network inside out with one pf.conf trick
Get your name in the relayd book

2016/10/292016/10/28

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/29

I get all the BSDs this week.

Infrastructure in a Post-Cloud Era. .ike presenting at NYCBUG on November 2nd. Go if you are near, vote if you can.
FreeNAS/ESXi – Link aggregation without a switch.
Dropping Linux and KVM in Favor of FreeBSD and Jails (2015). (via)
chromebook printing troubles
I used Virtualbox to install both FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD… it said login incorrect upon reboot.
Internet Connection Problems
Continuous OpenBSD regress tests. (via)
*BSD on laptops
In this how-to we’ll set up an email server from scratch using NetBSD.
Allow reading of files but no copying on FreeNAS.
NetBSD 7.0.2 released.
OPNsense 16.7.7 released.
pkgsrcCon 2016 videos.

2016/10/152016/10/14

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/15

A somewhat short week this week, for BSD.

FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE is out. Related: Older version EoLs.
EC2’s most dangerous feature.
Ohio LinuxFest 2016 wrap-up.
How to install LibertyBSD or OpenBSD on a libreboot system. (via)
vmm enabled. Runs OpenBSD on OpenBSD – sorta vkernelish?
OPNsense 16.7.6 released.
A remote BSD development job.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2016Q3 release.
web-bsd-hunt
Vincent Delft’s site. Lots of OpenBSD notes.

2016/10/13

BSDNow 163: Return of the Cantrill

That’s Bryan Cantrill, of Joyent, interviewed in BSDNow 163. Joyent has been a major supporter of pkgsrc, though I don’t know if many people realize that. There’s the regular news roundup too, of course.