Bitrig – DragonFly BSD Digest

BSDNow’s episode this week focuses on the just-released Bitrig 1.0, and has an interview with Patrick Wildt of that project. There’s also coverage of other topics, including the new poudriere release – that’s the tool that bulk builds packages for DragonFly and FreeBSD, though I don’t know if it’s unified across both operating systems yet.

2014/12/062014/12/05

In Other BSDs for 2014/12/06

I have been building up quite the variety this week.

Bitrig 1.0 has been released.
Writing NetBSD Sound Drivers in Haskell. (PDF, via)
ruBSD 2014, happening December 13th in Moscow. (via)
How to configure full disk encryption in PC-BSD 10.1. (via)
BSD Magazine for November 2014. (via) Why don’t they put new issue announcements in their RSS?
A week of pkgsrc #5.
FreeBSD Foundation’s 2014 year-end fundraising.
FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials is hitting the printers. There’s a quiet mention of the next two books in that series, too.
Two new kernel errata for OpenBSD.
BSDCan 2015 (June 2015) has opened up its call for papers, now through Jan 19th, 2015. (via)
A conversation about UTF-8, Unicode, and file systems.
A conversation about random vs. phrase passwords.
New Directions in Operating Systems conference notes. Lots of BSD stuff in there. (via)
nih-0.13.0 is out for pkgsrc.
BSD presentations (including DragonFly) at the X Developers Conference. I mentioned the event itself before, but that link wasn’t open to non-subscribers until later, as pointed out to me.
Coreboot on the BSDs.
More talk about embedded OpenBSD on cheap machines, including thin client machines repurposed into routers.
Noticed in that previous link: <$100 Ubuquiti EdgeRouter-Lites can run OpenBSD? FreeBSD too, apparently.
Is it time to give BSDs a try?
Fixing PC-BSD upgrade issues.

2014/09/132014/09/12

In Other BSDs for 2014/09/13

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.

2014/08/302014/08/30

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/30

I went from 1 link to lots all in one night.

DiscoverBSD’s news roundup for 2014/08/25.
The Bitrig website has been redesigned, probably to prep for a 1.0 version “soon”.
Do any of the BSDs have an equivalent to initramfs?
FreeBSD now has /etc/rc.conf.d/<service> subdirectories.
PC-BSD 10.0.3-RC2 has been tagged.
The roadmap for PC-BSD’s Lumina has been updated.
And here’s a preview of what Lumina looks like and can do.
NetBSD now supports the (rare) arcofi(4) sound device.
NetBSD now has direct I/O for FUSE.
OpenBSD no longer needs rtsol(8) or rtsold(8).
OpenBSD is very close to replacing man with mandoc.
A script for OpenBSD and WPA&WPA2 Enterprise / LEAP connections.
Via openbsd-misc, how to set up IPv6 tunneling over IPv4 and IPSec.
So I wanted to try out BSD…
A week of pkgsrc #4.
The FreeBSD Foundation has an IPSec improvement project started.
VMWare Tools for FreeBSD 10. I could really use VMWare Tools for DragonFly.
DesktopBSD is attempting a comeback, and here’s discussion.
A thread about drive reliability. To paraphrase something else: “In the long run, they’re all dead.”