This has been a very hectic week for me, but I still have links for you.
- The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System book is getting a significant update.
- Install Snort on FreeBSD. That place isn’t too far from me. (via)
- uGet, Open Source Lightweight Download Manager, is Now Available for BSD.
- loksh, a Linux port of OpenBSD’s ksh.
- 2Q buffer cache in OpenBSD.
- DiscoverBSD’s news summary for 2014/09/08.
- PC-BSD’s 10.0.3 quarterly package update is out.
- People are noticing the OpenBSD GSoC systemd replacement project.
- “GCC is by far the weirdest compiler I’ve ever used.“
- FreeBSD now supports the Dream Cheeky Webmail Notifier.
- FreeBSD has a ARM-based FPGA core programming tool. Not sure if that’s the right phrase.
- FreeBSD’s bootloader can now talk to the pcibios.
- Also, the UEFI bootloader can now talk serial/null console.
- Thanks for the BSD help, Microsoft!?
- procfs is gone from OpenBSD.
- Low power server discussion, in a home context.
- Building pkgsrc using cwrappers and pbulk.
- How to get Bitrig on ARM.
procfs was removed in June. It was pretty much a dragged along version that existed since back when BSD was still at Berkeley… I wonder what the future of Dragonflys procfs will be. I noticed that it was different from the /proc in other BSDs while playing with htop. Proper sysctl implementations are the way to go I think. people use procfs mostly for linux anyways.
*for linux emulation
Another interesting note: Lumina was just ported to OpenBSD today.
Also, it’s sort of neat that uGet now mentions BSD in its header/logo space at the top of their website. Good on them!