pkgsrc – Page 4 – DragonFly BSD Digest

That first link is important. DragonFly, as a project, hasn’t had issues like that yet, but that’s more a side effect of it being a smaller project rather than anything else.

The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl. (via)
- updated: An initial followup from freebsd-core.
Plotting Out the BSD Year. (via or via)
BSD: A Brief Look Back at 2015.
OpenBSD Jumpstart. (via)
Can it run BSD? The story of a MIPS-based PIC32 microcontroller. (via)
Want to build a local router on my raspberry pi – considering BSD.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/12/28.
Ubuntu vs FreeBSD Hosting: Is There A Difference? (via)
“So errors of a measly 292g years go unreported.“
pkgsrc-2015Q3 Branch Statistics.
pkgsrc-2015Q4 released.
ZFS boot environments are now available in the FreeBSD boot loader.
plasma_saver for FreeBSD. (this should be portable, hint hint)
Installfest on January 6th for NYCBUG.

2015/12/192015/12/18

In Other BSDs for 2015/12/19

Yet another week that I started 2 weeks ago; this end-of-calendar-year is full of BSD goings-on.

FreeBSD on the desktop? Am I crazy? (via)
lists.freebsd.org holy jeebus….
I am a newbie trying to switch from pfSense to OpenBSD.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Windows Operating System Family. (via)
You Make FreeBSD Possible.
Adventures in Open Source Software: Dealing with Security. A pkgsrc talk.
TrueNAS templates are now included with a number of monitoring tools.
Michael Lucas’s SSH talk on YouTube. Not necessarily BSD-specific, but still good.
BSD for the desktop user: A review of PC-BSD.
What makes the BSD family more secure than GNU/Linux?
SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT, a BSD-origin explanation. (via)
The pkgsrc-2015Q4 freeze has started.

2015/12/122015/12/12

In Other BSDs for 2015/12/12

I had this built up well ahead of time.

Today’s world is amd64, armv7, and soon aarch64. Everything else is dead, Jim. The author is/was a OpenBSD developer. (via, via)
Show Your Support for FreeBSD. (Foundation) Donation time of year.
As an everyday user of Linux, should I switch to BSD, why or why not?
vCenter Web Client Plug-in for TrueNAS Now Available.
OpenBSD Xen support. (via)
“look I come from debian so having a stable reliable system that _also_ has software that isn’t years out of date in the repos is a shocker” (about the ports system)
pkgsrc is moving to dash as a bootstrap shell, to replace pdksh.
The 2015Q4 quarterly pkgsrc freeze is coming.
BSD Magazine issue 75, with a focus on FreeBSD development tools, is available.
DistroWatch Weekly reviews OpenBSD 5.8. (via)
n2k15: sashan@ on PF mpsafe progess.
n2k15: tedu@ on rebound, malloc hardening, removing legacy code.
OPNsense 15.7.22 Released.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/12/07.

2015/12/052015/12/04

In Other BSDs for 2015/12/05

I was going to make comments about this being a light week, and then suddenly I had overflow.

The 2015 NYC Tech Meta-Party is December 14th. Lots of BSD people there; I wish I was.
The Call for Papers for BSDCan 2016 is out. (also via)
Early days of Unix and design of sh. Stephen Bourne’s recent NYCBUG talk; make time to see this if you missed the BSDCan 2015 show.
FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems, the early access draft, is available.
Hosted NetBSD (and others) from Serveraptor. We need a list of hosting orgs where you can run BSD.
One of the three OpenBSD users. (via)
PXE boot OpenBSD from OpenWRT. (via)
NetBSD gains sqlite3db and also DTC.
PHP5.4 is being retired from pkgsrc.
IBCS2 support in FreeBSD is removed, for now at least.
OpenBSD now has an etherip(4) device. (No man page to link to as of this typing)
iXSystems at Fossetcon 2015.
Preparing multitouch support – request for tests
Is That Linux? No, It’s PC-BSD. (via)
How to Install Ajenti with Nginx and SSL on FreeBSD 10.2. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/30.
Distrowatch reviews NetBSD 7. (via)
FreeBSD and FreeNAS in Business by Randy Westlund.

2015/10/312015/10/30

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/31

Another week that quickly went from “Gee, I hope I have enough links” to “I have to set time aside just to process the backlog of possibilities.”

Buy an x220.
A week of pkgsrc #12.
20Gb of Internet traffic on OpenBSD won’t work.
Nouveau runs on NetBSD with hardware GL support.
English-only in OpenBSD.
Help! Can’t install NetBSD 7 – problem with .iso file
Steam on the BSDs (not wine)
mge/etherswitch support in FreeBSD, especially for some Marvell chips.
Bluetooth LE Security Management channel support in FreeBSD.
mpsutil in FreeBSD has been updated. (for LSI Fusion-MPT 2/3 controllers )
add BSD to OS options in the forum user profile.
NetBSD 5.x is reaching end-of-life.
The Tor Browser for OpenBSD has been updated.
The 3rd quarter FreeBSD status report is out.
OpenBSD interviews: Ted Unangst, Brandon Mercer, Antoine Jacoutot, joshua stein, Landry Breuil, Henning Brauer, and Stefan Sperling.
Or just look at Undeadly’s complete list.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/10/16.
Lumina Desktop 0.8.7 is released.
FreeNAS ‘what’s new’ issue 26. FreeNAS is 10 years old.
A new FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS review.

2015/10/242015/10/23

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/24

There’s a lot of developer interviews lately.

DragonFly BSD + FreeBSD (via)
truenas
Hubert Feyrer has a roundup of the recent NetBSD interviews.
OpenBSD 5.8 is released.
OpenBSD turns 20.
OpenBSD developers: Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (via)
OpenBSD developers: Vadim Zhukov (via)
OpenBSD developers: Marc Espie (via)
OpenBSD developers: Bryan Steele (via)
OpenBSD developers: Ingo Schwarze (via)
OpenBSD developers: Gilles Chehade (via)
OPNSense 15.7.17 released.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/10/19.
EuroBSDCon 2014 Videos Online. The date is not a typo.
GhostBSD’s graphical ZFS installer. (via)
Grace Hopper Convention 2015. (FreeBSD Foundation)
W^X enabled in OpenBSD Firefox port. (via)
Announcing NetBSD 7.0 for USB Flash Drives. (via)
pkgsrc-wip has finished the move to git. It should be easier to contribute.
FreeBSD on 96-core (dual socket) ThunderX system. (via)
Compilers in the BSD base system. (via)
Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk on SSH on November 10th, in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Robert Bourne is returning to NYCBUG to talk on November 19th. Catch this if you can; it’s worth it.
I already scheduled reminder posts for both those events.

Your cross-platform software of the week: Syncthing. Runs on all the BSDs. (Via discussion on EFNet #dragonflybsd)

2015/10/032015/10/02

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/03

There’s lots to read through this week – just for BSD! I’ll have even more tomorrow.

FreeBSD cloud use cases?
Nvidia and X.
The September issue of BSD Magazine is out.
Reporting bugs and the BSD community.
(Net)BSD newbie, some questions
DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/28.
Faces of FreeBSD: Allan Jude. You may have already seen that face on BSDNow.
OPNsense 15.7.15 Released.
FreeNAS: A Worst Practices Guide.
A status report on Michael W. Lucas’s two upcoming FreeBSD Mastery books, plus his other work.
tame testing.
More l2k15 Hackathon reports.
NASA’s Pleiades Supercomputer and pkgsrc. They even document it.
Rebase when pushing to pkgsrc-wip’s new Git home.
pkgsrc-2015Q3 is released.
DTrace in NetBSD, though only simple scripts work right now.
NetBSD gains PCI Extended Configuration Space support.
Home server advice often boils down to “how are your backups?“
OpenBSD parts in Toyota Highlander.
Teaching to contribute to BSD. (from a just-run class)

2015/09/192015/09/17

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/19

Lots of activity; I didn’t even really need to look at source commits.