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2019/11/022019/11/01

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/02

I still haven’t caught up, natch, but not going to miss this week!

Humble Book Bundle: Linux & BSD Bookshelf by No Starch Press. Includes books I’ve linked before; you get a lot of material for only $15.
NYCBUG is having an installfest this Wednesday, 11/6. Go just to see what oddball hardware someone drags out.
The Call for Participation for the FOSDEM 2020 BSD devroom is up. You’ve got about 3 weeks to get your proposal in.
FreeBSD 2019Q2 status report.
FreeBSD 11.2 EOL as of a few days ago.
RPI/Pinebook and BSD compatibility, a current status.
Semibug topics for next year. Keep going through the thread; A HAMMER2 talk would be nice.
Speaking of Semibug, the November 19th meeting may be moved. I’ll post when I hear of the final spot, too.
bzflag, runs on any BSD, still active.
Anyone use FreeNAS for file server?
Arm to Deliver CHERI-based Prototype to Tackle Security Threats. Related to CHERIBSD. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/10/28.
How to fuck up software releases. Linked cause the DragonFly release document is essentially a list of ways to keep me from repeating the mistakes I made on the last release.
Stabilization of the ptrace(2) threads.
EuroBSDCon 2019, Norway – video. (via)
Unix: A History and a Memoir. (via)

2019/09/282019/09/27

In Other BSDs for 2019/09/28

Note there’s several BUG meetings coming up.

KnoxBUG meets Monday, talking about home labs.
Pure sh bible. POSIX sh, not bashisms, for once. (via)
ZFS is not a universal filesystem that is always good for all workloads. Neither is HAMMER. It’s interesting to think of the edge cases.
Taking NetBSD kernel bug roast to the next level: Kernel Fuzzers (quick A.D. 2019 overview). (via)
Next NYCBUG meeting: Plan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, with Ori Bernstein. I’ll post a reminder, of course.
EuroBSDCon 2019.
1 day / 1 game : Red Alert with games/openra. It’s a FLV file.
Playing Ion Fury on OpenBSD. Another FLV link.
1 day / 1 game on OpenBSD: Sword of the Stars: The Pit by thfr@.
fnaify 2.0 out. (via)
Project Trident 12U7 now available.
List Block Devices on FreeBSD lsblk(8) Style.
Valuable News – 2019/09/23.
OpenBSD at EuroBSDcon 2019.

Your book plug of the week: “Of course, if you don’t want to sponsor a book on SNMP I can’t blame you for that either. It’s a horrible topic that most of us would rather pretend didn’t exist.“

2019/09/072019/09/06

In Other BSDs for 2019/09/07

I have an RSS backlog now.

ChiBUG meets this Tuesday.
FreeBSD core team appoints a WG to explore transitioning from Subversion to Git. Part of the recent status report. (via)
Related: Game of Trees.
OpenBSD on fan-less Tuxedo InfinityBook 14″ v2. (via)
How to configure a network dump in FreeBSD?
6.6-beta has been tagged.
Package updates for -stable branch now available for amd64, i386 soon, and arm64.
Valuable News – 2019/09/02.
The fate of MirOS Linux, and a birthday post.
snmp(1) added to -current.
Project Trident 12-U5 now available.
BitreichCON 2019 talks available.
The Dark Mod, imported. (via)
LLVM santizers and GDB regression test suite.
“Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” now out! mwl has a non-BSD fiction release too.
Related: he has shirts now too. Read the backs.

2019/07/202019/07/20

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/20

And overflow continues! I am secretly pleased.

Nginx and acme-client on OpenBSD.
random ip id comments. Linked cause OpenBSD and DragonFly are specially noted for IP ID handling.
DTracing PostGres. (via).
What is the overarching philosophy of BSD that defines the OS family?
OpenBSD::Unveil(3p) added to -current. I like this sort of external support.
NeXT Software and Peripherals catalog Fall 1989. (via)
ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size. Will this affect ZFS on BSD? Dunno.
Valuable News – 2019/07/15.
A Tale of Two Spellcheckers. A PkgSrcCon 2019 talk. (via)
GUIX and FreeBSD(AnyBSD) ?
Want to learn more about BSD.
FreeBSD.org outgoing mail system changes.
FreeBSD Journal: FreeBSD for Makers.
OPNsense 19.7 “Jazzy Jaguar” released.
Seattle Gelato Meetup, 1 August 2019.
“Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” open for tech review.

2019/07/132019/07/11

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/13

Done early, for once! I managed to complete this by Thursday night.

LLDB: watchpoints, XSTATE in ptrace() and core dumps.
OpenBSD Community goes Platinum for 2019!
Streaming to Twitch using OpenBSD.
High quality / low latency VOIP server with umurmur/Mumble on OpenBSD.
OPNsense 19.1.10 released, and then OPNsense 19.7 RC1 released.
vBSDCon’s Call for Papers is out. (via)
What to try first, of Michael W. Lucas’s BSD and non-BSD books?
Project Trident 19.06 Available. (via)
FreeBSD 11.3 released.
July 10 Plugins Update.
fixing telnet fixes.
aggr(4) driver added to -current. I read it as aggro, can’t help it.
Replacing a (silently) failing disk in a ZFS pool. (via)
FreeBSD security issues in DragonflyBSD perspective.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q2 release. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/07/08.
Implementation of DRM ioctl Support for NetBSD kernel.
Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD.
Exploiting FreeBSD-SA-19:02.fd. (via)

2019/06/292019/06/29

Lazy Reading for 2019/06/02

I’ve got some unique links this week.

“We’ve run the simulation a million million times… and every time, the Dark Lord wins.” Mageframe, a story told by AI (apparently not just another Markov Chain) with your seeded information. Explanation here; I suggest this is art you should participate in.
Return to Nib’s Knoll. Another early-Internet sense of place, buried away.
href.cool. Old-style web directory. (via)
What I’m Thinking About 1995. Makes sense if you listen to the author’s podcast.
As A Service. “Half a century ago it was called timesharing.”
Twisty Little Passages, a sorta-RPG, sorta-roguelike … book?
Fast FVP, the task sorting method.
110 days of Early Multics Emacs History. (via)
Cthulhu Dark, “A Rules-light system For lovecraftian Horror”. I like how compact it is; a 3-page PDF. (via)
Related: the original Call of Cthulhu rules. I’ve never had to type out Cthulhu before.
30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web. (via)
The Software Arts, an “alternative history of software that places the arts at the very center of software’s evolution.” (via)
The 25¢ Apple II Real Time Clock. The author shows up in the comments of the source link, 38 years later.
Espruino ISS Notifier. Yep, it’s a Space Station Detector.

2019/05/182019/05/17

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/18

I have more links than I expected.

Brief netbsd.org outages tomorrow.
SEMIBUG vmm hypervisor demo on the 21st.
WireGuard on OpenBSD. (via)
No itch to scratch.
Simple shared folder with Samba on OpenBSD 6.5.
Confusion with used/free disk space in ZFS.
Valuable News – 2019/05/09.
BSDCan 2019 Auction Items, and next Beaks novel.
Video of live reading of “FreeBSD Journal” column.
Overview of ZFS Pools in FreeNAS.
Intel MDS. A problem not specific to any one BSD, really. (via)
Bad utmp implementations in Glibc and FreeBSD. (via)
syzkaller found a bug.
Keep Crashing Daemons Running on FreeBSD. First three words are a potential band name. (via)
HumbleBundle Spring Sale – OpenBSD Highlights.

2019/04/272019/04/26

In Other BSDs for 2019/04/27

I have cleared out my backlog of general BSD stuff but am still a month behind on DragonFly news, which is the opposite of usual.

OpenBSD 6.5 released.
Michael W. Lucas’s FreeBSD Mastery: Jails is out.
FreeBSD Mastery: Jails – Bail Bond Denied Edition.
Related: Lucas is presenting for something like 24 hours straight at Penguincon 2019, including BSD topics. The ice cream-related presentations sound the most fun.
pfSense VLAN Configuration, a question.
Valuable News – 2019/04/22.
Categorizing OpenBSD Bugs. (via)
fh: file history with ed(1), diff(1), awk(1), sed(1) and sh(1). Almost BSD. (via)
OS108-20190422 released with added splash. (via)
powerpc64 architecture support in FreeBSD ports. (via)

2019/04/26

Impromptu SEMIBUG-area get-together tonight

Michael W. Lucas is meeting one of his book sponsors tonight at the New Parthenon in Greektown – that’s in Detroit – and issued a general call for a get-together. If you attend SEMIBUG meetings, you’re probably close enough, but you don’t have to be an attendee to show up and have a good time.

2019/04/132019/04/13

In Other BSDs for 2019/04/13

Straight open tab dump, again!

FreeBSD ARM64 AMIs are now available for Amazon EC2. (via)
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and OpenBSD.
Small NAS questions. Follow the thread; there’s many suggestions.
Challenge accepted: OpenBSD on a laptop. (via)
Encrypted (LUKS) HAMMER1 master/slave NFS fileserver : 9 months later.
[packages] libreoffice and password-protected .od* files. Not strictly BSD but could surprise someone.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Putting the hack(6) in hackathon, and other stories.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on 802.11? progress, suspend/resume and more.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on dhclient, disklabel, and more.
Our plan for handling TRIM’ing our ZFS fileserver SSDs.
Playing Slay the Spire on OpenBSD.
From Zero to NVMM.
Introducing funlinkat.
Valuable News – 2019/04/08.
~~OPNsense 19.1.5 released~~ no wait OPNsense 19.1.6 released.
April Plugins Update.
Run S3 Object Storage on FreeNAS and TrueNAS.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” Print Sponsor Gifts Threaten to Topple. The book is available to order now.
NOWBSD.

A late update: BSDCan 2019 registration, plus an update.

2019/04/11

BSD Now 293: Booking Jails

BSD Now 293 has an interview with Michael W. Lucas on his newest book in the BSD Mastery series: BSD Mastery: Jails. It’s available to purchase now.

2019/04/062019/04/05

In Other BSDs for 2019/04/06

Lots of BUG news this week; thank you all for the leads on groups to watch.

Talking Jails at Semibug, 9 April 2019. Note the meeting has been moved up a week.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” and a new novella.
April 9th Meetup. ChiBUG.
Rusted ravens: Ravenports march 2019 status update. There’s some DragonFly stuff in there I haven’t had a chance to link to.
How to use NetBSD on a Raspberry Pi. (via)
Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles. Almost UNIX, almost BSD. (via)
Before Unix: An Early History of Timesharing Systems. Influences on BSD.(via)
OpenRA imported – game engine recreation for RTS games of the Command & Conquer family. (via)
Project Trident 18.12-U8 Available. (via)
Removing PF. (via)
Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – Redundant Backup. (via)
LLDB/LLVM report for March 2019. NetBSD.
Continuation of signal semantics improvements. NetBSD.
iked curve25519 group number change. OpenBSD.
Valuable News – 2019/04/01.
Sega Dreamcast Running NetBSD. (via)
UNIX and BSD Discord/Matrix Servers.
BSD Router Project 1.92 is now available. (via)

2019/03/162019/03/15

In Other BSDs for 2019/03/16

There’s a number of long-running BSD series out there nowadays, some of which I’m linking to here. That’s a nice change.

FreeBSD Desktop – Part 15 – Configuration – Fonts & Frameworks. (via)
Nixers Newsletter 117.
“Just picked this up today!” (a SPARC laptop)
package of the moment: tview and tcell. For terminal interface building.
Add a TLS layer to your Gopher server.
Tribblix, a Illumos… derivative? I didn’t know about it until now. It’s retro.
TextSuggest, an accessibility tool, ported to OpenBSD.
Peculiarities about Unix’s statfs() or statvfs() API.
OpenSSH, PAM and user names.
OPNsense 19.1.4 released.
End-of-February Update. BSD book progress.
Well, it’s been a while – falling in love with OpenBSD again.
mandoc-1.14.5 released.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 4.
Valuable News – 2019/03/11.
Slay the Spire with libGDX fork & GOG Midweek Sale.

2019/02/232019/03/01

In Other BSDs for 2019/02/23

Built entirely from open tabs.

Porting Zig to NetBSD – a fun, speedy port. (via)
pkgsrcCon 2019 – 13th – 14th of July 2019, Cambridge, UK. (via)
HAXM in pkgsrc (hardware-assisted virtualization engine). (via)
QEMU HAXM on NetBSD. (via)
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. Which is the same basic system across all BSDs I think. (via)
Adding Name-based hosting To Nginx on OpenBSD with Acme-Client. (via)
openrsync imported into the tree. In OpenBSD.
Hardware for a Linux/BSD Friendly Workstation.
Valuable News – 2019/02/15.
SoloBSD 19.02-STABLE.
Update pfSense packages to protect against NGINX, libzmq4, and curl vulnerabilities.
OpenBSD and iscsi, part 1 and part 2.
How to run Axiom Verge on OpenBSD (Epic Store version).
mupen64plus 2.5.9 (2.6 beta) call for testing. A N64 emulator on OpenBSD. (via)
Sync Files to Dropbox with TrueNAS or FreeNAS.
Faster vlan(4) forwarding? – blog post by mpi@.
FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” first draft complete and “Sudo Mastery, Second Edition” and Cover Art.

2019/01/122019/01/11

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/12

Literally the first 45 minutes of me picking from saved links is all it took for this week.

pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p2 now available.
GlusterFS Cluster on FreeBSD with Ansible and GNU Parallel. (via)
Some thoughts on FreeBSD as a desktop platform. (via)
People who run BSD. Linked here before but recently updated. (reminded via)
Linux network-scripts being deprecated is a problem for my home PPPoE link. Linked here cause this sort of CADT approach doesn’t happen so much on BSD…
BSD BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO OBSOLETE EQUIPMENT. (via)
tons of updates, more coming… (hope I didn’t break anything ?) MirBSD.
Valuable News – 2019/01/04.
The process of upstreaming support to LLVM sanitizers has been finalized.
Ingo Schwarze -mandoc Better documentation – on the web and for LibreSSL video is now published.
How NetBSD came to be shipped by Microsoft. (via)
MWL’s 2018 Wrap-Up. More BSD books on the way!
GhostBSD 18.12 Now Available. (via)

Your BSD smug linksfor the week: I saw these two posts in my RSS feed, one right after the other: “Get ready to patch your Linux systems with systemd, 3x new CVEs out there as of yesterday. These enable any user to escalate to root.” and “Windows 10 Bsod on three different machines after updates. On was new out of box. Any ideas? ”

2018/10/112018/10/10

BSDNow 267: Absolute FreeBSD

BSDNow 267 is posted a bit early this week, with an interview of Michael W. Lucas, about his upcoming Absolute FreeBSD 3rd edition and local BUG.

2018/10/092018/10/07

Michael W. Lucas talks at mug

Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk at mug.org tonight; he may have physical copies of his new Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition available. Go, if you are near. Pro tip: If you are late but still want to catch up to Michael, look for the nearest gelato shop.

2018/08/262018/08/24

Lazy Reading for 2018/08/26

There’s several deep dives in the links today; enjoy reading!

NIST publication SP800-177r1-draft2: Trustworthy Email. NIST publishes suprisingly comprehensive documents on technology practices; I am surprised they are not referenced more often.
Keynote Speakers Make Bad Life Decisions and Are Poor Role Models. More Mickens. (via)
24-core CPU and I can’t type an email, part one and part two. I feel but cannot prove that this is related to why people say, “DragonFly feels so responsive!” (via)
Why ed(1) is not a good editor today. There are people that like ed(1), unironically?
Why I’m mostly not interest in exploring new fonts (on Unix). It helps if you do everything in English, though.
The Distracted State of the Union. A sort of “these kids today” article, but linked simply because it points out that when you read the news, the news now reads you. (via)
Programmatically generated books, read out loud. I was going to say “by the author”, but I’m not sure that’s technically correct.
Badness, Enumerated by Robots. There’s about a zillion links in this for more technical information; worth reading.

Your unrelated music link of the week: A Brief Primer on the Contemporary Glitch-Hop Scene. I liked Tipper more than I expected.

2018/08/17

Not a BSD book reading, tonight

Michael W. Lucas is reading from his ‘git commit murder‘ book tonight at 7 PM, in Clawson, Michigan.

Category: Books