Slightly earlier than normal because of the magic of prerecording, BSDNow 197 is up and has an interview with Michael W. Lucas about his books. (I’m hoping for interviews from BSDCan next week.)
In Other BSDs for 2017/06/03
Even more overflow, pushing my pre-published posts forward.
- “Relayd and Httpd Mastery,” both the good and the bad.
- OpenBSD on the Xiaomi Mi Air 12.5″. (via)
- iXsystems’ TrueNAS Receives Veeam Backup Certification.
- What does this joke mean? Well, I get it.
- experiments with prepledge.
- pFSense / VLAN – Security.
- EuroBSDcon 2017 Talks & Schedule published (via)
- network transparent audio with sndiod and vmd
- FreeBSD ( -current) now has 64bit inodes.
- Docker on OpenBSD 6.1. (via)
- Fixing FreeBSD Networking on Digital Ocean. (via)
- Thinkpad X230 / NetBSD.
- Introducing RunBSD.info. And here’s the site.
- Pfsense and edge router combo?
- Netgate now offers global support. i.e. pfSense.
Lazy Reading for 2017/05/07
Accidental topic this week: text interfaces!
- PuTTY 0.69 has been released. (via)
- Made by the same author: Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection. Like Minesweeper times one thousand. (via)
- Random ASCII spaceship generator.
- Telnet MapSCII.
- terminal emulators’ processing of escape sequences. I’ve Ctrl-S’d myself a few times, I’ll admit. (via)
- ZX Spectrum Next. Actually contains a ZX chip. (via)
- BSD author Michael W. Lucas is having a flash sale on his fiction. It may be over by the time you read this.
- The quest to crack and preserve vintage Apple II software. A podcast episode, with some speakers I really like. (via)
- Securing Telnet with SSL. (via)
- Apple ][ clone and lawsuit history, some of which is new to me.
Your unrelated video of the week: DOUBLE KING. (via multiple places)
In Other BSDs for 2017/04/29
It’s long article title week!
- A PDF of the IPv6 handout, from the April SemiBUG meeting, is available.
- Adventures in Time, part 1: Interfacing an Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator to a Computer Running NetBSD. (via)
- Replace the RC4 algorithm for generating in-kernel secure random numbers with Chacha20. (via)
- 9 lessons from 25 years of Linux kernel development. None of those lessons are specific to Linux; they apply to all the BSDs, for instance. (via)
- pfsense for a small ISP in both router and firewall settings?
- Rate your favorite BSD on…
- (finally) investigating how to get dynamic WDS (DWDS) working in FreeBSD!
- OPNsense 17.1.5 released.
- The many ways of running firefox on OpenBSD.
- Michael W. Lucas’s Penguicon 2017 Schedule.
- iXsystems TrueNAS Certified with Veeam Backup.
- OpenBSD 6.1 Song Released.
In Other BSDs for 2017/04/01
Odd batch of links this week.
- Not ‘other BSD’, but I didn’t have another good place for it: DragonFly 4.8 release discussion.
- LionBSD. Security-oriented FreeBSD packaging, at first look. (via)
- Changing Send/Receive Bandwidth on FreeBSD.
- Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs. (via)
- The FreeBSD phone link from BSDNow, earlier this week, led me to these two other projects: FreeBSD Robot + Teensy 3.1 and MiniBSD laptop computer.
- *BSD for Dell XPS 13 (9350)
- OPNsense 17.1.4 released.
- vmm(4)/vmd(8) support for seabios and linux guests.
- “Httpd and Relayd Mastery” off to copyedit.
- NetBSD and Summer of Code, FreeBSD and Summer of Code. Deadline is in a few days!
- Upcoming NYCBUG events – next meeting is this Wednesday.
Your BSD-related fiction book of the week (year? decade?) :’git commit murder‘ is out, set at a (fictional) BSD convention.
In Other BSDs for 2017/03/25
More thinking topics than version changes this week, which is interesting.
- Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD. It’s the PDF transcript from the FOSDEM 2017 “My BSD sucks less than yours” presentation, linked previously. (via)
- OPNsense 17.1.3 released.
- Ask HN: Why is BSD becoming more popular in embedded devices? Lots of half-informed theorizing there.
- The BSD family tree. Not new, but the discussion at the source link is more to look at, along with other links.
- Upgrading notes for pfSense 2.3.x users, where 2.3.x < 2.3.3.
- tech@openbsd.org: regarding OpenSSL Licence change. Nothing goes well with OpenSSL. Hey, it rhymes! (via)
- golang now has native support for OpenBSD’s pledge(2).
- “And then the murders began.” – applied to tech BSD books.
- TrueNAS and ZFS terms and explanations.
In Other BSDs for 2017/03/18
Much better than last week, but there wasn’t any hurricane-force winds this week – which helps.
- Complexity and Strategy. Talks about Microsoft products, but think about this in terms of any long-lived operating system code base – e.g. any BSD, or specifically OpenBSD given their correctness goals. (via)
- Freenas 10 (now called Freenas Corral) released – the press release.
- pfSense OpenVPN unattended deploy options?
- Intel’s ACPICA is now available under a BSD license. Doing the right thing.
- New mandoc -mdoc -T markdown converter
- time scrolling. Remapping keyboard/mouse events in X.
- /usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know. Linked here because the example is from a BSD environment. (via)
- NetBSD 7.1 released.
- iXsystems Attends AsiaBSDCon 2017.
- “What exactly is BSD?“
- openbsd changes of note 6, openbsd changes of note 7
- EuroBSDCon 2017 Call for Proposals is out.
- vBSDCon 2017 Call for Proposals is out.
- Relayd and the Next Tech Book. Related to the next link,
- Get your name in “Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition”
Michael W. Lucas at Grosse Pointe Library
Michael W. Lucas will be showing up tomorrow with physical copies of his books at the Grosse Pointe Library. (I’m assuming it will be both his fiction and non-fiction BSD books.) If you are near, I bet you can get a signed copy.
Michael W. Lucas at Troy Public Library
BSD author Michael W. Lucas is talking at the Troy Public Library (Michigan, not New York) tonight, about his nonfiction writing. Go, if you like his books and/or if you are thinking about technical writing for yourself. He has another appearance coming up on March 11th.
Lazy Reading for 2017/02/19
It’s Lazy Reading Science week!
- RC40 card cipher
- mplayer ktracing “In my ongoing quest to find the most inefficient software that still appears to work…”
- How New York City Gets Its Electricity. Smart meters have been possible for years… Electricity companies are just not interested. (via)
- Posix Has Become Outdated. Note that I don’t necessarily agree. (PDF, via)
- Computer Science Professor Stages a Play to Teach his Family Perl 6. (via)
- Why Wang went wrong.
- swayvm, a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, for Wayland. (via)
- I LOVE PROGRAMMING, the sticker. (via)
- Laws of the Universe: Perlin Noise.
- Undefined Behavior != Unsafe Programming.
- A new version of Producing Open Source Software is out. (via)
- JS/UIX, “an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers”. (via)
- newspaper subscription experiment
- How I got three errors into one line of code and followup.
- Same author and related: Automatically checking for syntax errors with Git’s pre-commit hook
- Pipelining your laundry, and the ensuing silliness
Your unrelated link of the day: Assault Trombone. Even if this was lethal, I couldn’t take it seriously. (via)
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?
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
In Other BSDs for 2016/12/31
Last anything for the year!
- Cohabiting FreeBSD and Gentoo Linux on a Common ZFS Pool (via)
- Gave 9front a try under bhyve. It boots. (Restrictions Apply) (via)
- Foxy’s (mis)Adventures with NetBSD (via)
- FreeBSD Foundation Announces New Uranium Level Donation (via)
- Peter Hansteen on OpenBSD and you (slides)
- So that’s what water-cooling looks like.
- FreeNAS Hard Drive Troubleshooting Guide. (via)
- MWL’s 2016 wrap-up. One of his 2017 goals: “Be sufficiently flexible to kick Ray Percival in the head at BSDCan.” Also more BSD books.
In Other BSDs for 2016/11/19
A much more well-rounded crop of BSD links this week.
- FreeBSD status report for 2016Q3.
- “Import (finally!) Tor Browser 6.0.5.” An obvious matchup. (via)
- “FreeBSD Flavors. Do We Need Them?“
- Next SemiBUG meeting: December 20th.
- “How to remote connect to BSD server behind double NAT?”
- Review of NAS4Free 10.3.0.3. I forgot about this… fork? (via)
- pycapsicum – sandbox your Python code on FreeBSD. (via)
- Iocage – A FreeBSD jail manager. (via)
- “What’s your favorite BSD jail administration software?“
- Build a FreeBSD 11.0-release Openstack Image with bsd-cloudinit. (via)
- OPNsense 16.7.8 released.
- b2k16 hackathon report: Landry Breuil, Jeremy Evans, Daniel Jakots.
- l2k16 hackathon report: LibreSSL manuals now in mdoc(7).
- openbsd changes of note
- Learning more about the NetBSD scheduler (… than I wanted to know)
- MeetBSD 2016 Report: Michael Dexter.
In Other BSDs for 2016/11/12
Started out with a short list, but I managed to find some extra links by Friday.
- b2k16 hackathon report: Antoine Jacoutot.
- NetBSD 7.0/xen scheduling mystery, and how to fix it with processor sets.
- Looking at the scheduler issue again. Part 2 from previous link.
- TrueOS Launch message. Might be time to retire the PC-BSD tag.
- Lynis – Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. (via)
- Exit from Hell? Reducing the Impact of Amplification DDoS Attacks. Also as a paper. I’d like to compare the number of systems found as amplifiers vs. systems in general. e.g. are BSD less likely to create reflectors? (via)
- “PAM is Un-American” talk now online. Buy the PAM Mastery book!
- Devops with Chef on FreeBSD, an online course from BSD Magazine.
- SemiBUG is meeting Tuesday. Joe Gidi will talk about ‘managing Android devices with BSD‘.
In Other BSDs for 2016/10/08
This was an easy week to put together; there’s a lot of links this week. Last week was slow – maybe it was because of EuroBSDCon?
- pfSense 2.3.2-p1 RELEASE Now Available!
- 386bsd/386bsd – Upgrade to 386BSD 2.0. (via)
- A new addition to FreeBSD.org.
- SNIA SDC 2016 Recap: Michael Dexter. Swordfish sounds interesting.
- Review of OpenBSD 6.0. (via)
- Steam on FreeBSD?
- Is anyone here using netflix on FreeBSD?
- New to BSD. Please help me choose a BSD.
- FreeBSD/EC2 11.0-RELEASE.
- Videos from OSHUG #46.
- “PAM Mastery” print sponsor books.
- process listing consistency.
- EuroBSDcon 2016 Recap.
- OpenZFS: Stronger Than Ever. Devsummit report.
- NYCBUG moved their cabinet without issue. It sounds like NYI is good people.
In Other BSDs for 2016/10/01
A relatively uneventful week, at least for BSD.
- Vulnerability scanner for Linux and FreeBSD. (via)
- Michael W. Lucas’s next BSD book.
- Speaking of which, please pay for what you use.
- What is happening with FreeBSD-11.
- Does FreeBSD 11 support Broadwell integrated video or not?
- Theo de Raadt on LLVM license change proposal. (via)
- LibreSSL 2.5.0 released. (via)
- OPNsense 16.7.5 released.
- What desktop environment and window manager do you use?
- Data Compression and Deduplication Demystified. TrueNAS-oriented.
- OpenBSD 6.0 CD Set – Limited Edition signed by 40 developers. (via)
- NetBSD/vax – worth continuing? (via)
Lazy Reading for 2016/09/11
Happy birthday to my younger daughter.
- The Fall of Avalon Hill (1998). The source link comments lead to a lot of neat game material, and a different viewpoint than what’s in this older article.
- Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming. From a link in those aforementioned comments.
- Dolphin Emulator – Booting the Final GameCube Game. (via)
- Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues explained visually. “Eigenwhatever” is a fun word to say. (via)
- What typing ^D does on Unix. (via)
- Xerox Alto Restoration Part 5. I think I missed part 4. (via)
- Tcl the misunderstood. (via)
- Excellent Dwarf Fortress-Bug.
- Next steps for Gmane. (via)
- RetroConnector. Mostly Classic Mac forms at Raspberry Pi size. The Fat Macs are so cute. (via)
- Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (via)
- How the Bit Was Born (via)
- Advanced Compilers Weeks 1 and 2
- The Fidget Cube. (via)
Lazy Reading for 2016/09/04
This post fleshed out at the last minute, between road trips.
- Why Can’t I Run a 100-Node CockroachDB Cluster? Linked here as “A Focus on Stability”. All projects overcomplicate.
- Comparison between Windows Terminal Emulators with pros and cons for each. (via)
- Ken, Unix and Games (via)
- Hardening Your Web Server’s SSL Ciphers. (Thanks, Justin Whyte)
- Solutions to Integer Overflow.
- Are there any emulators/VMs that can run really old versions of Unix?
- Atomic.io, quick prototyping. (via)
- New novel, and a new novel bundle.
- bucklespring, to simulate that type of keyboard. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2016/09/03
A week of travel didn’t get in the way of links! RSS feeds are still fantastic tools for those who know how to use them.
- See Michael W. Lucas talk about BSD, several places.
- OpenZFS Cheat Sheet.
- Ubuntu’s fall from grace. About Ubuntu/FreeBSD. Articles that use the phrase “rock-solid” for an operating system are usually junk. (via)
- A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To. This is a repeat, so if you saw this link here before, just read comments from the source.
- PC-BSD becomes TrueOS. Also explained here.Guess I have to change the tag. (via)
- Installing PC-BSD as a Primary Operating System. And this page needs to be updated.
- backlight battery indicator. Sort of like a terminal beep.
- EuroBSDCon 2016, happening later this month in Serbia. Registration is open.
- OpenBSD 6.0: why and how. (via)
- Setting up a Web Server: OpenBSD or FreeBSD?
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/08/29.
- OPNSense 16.7.3 released.
- Let’s Encrypt client imported into -current. OpenBSD-current.
- OpenBSD 6.0 released. Last CD-ROM release.
- The Voicemail Scammers Never Got Past Our OpenBSD Greylisting. My favorite thing about his writeups is that they can be duplicated.