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2020/02/222020/02/21

In Other BSDs for 2020/02/22

No theme this week cause I think I hit everything.

Dr. Paul Vixie is giving a talk on March 3rd at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting, titled “Operating Systems as Dumb Pipes“. I’ll post a reminder.
NetBSD 9.0 is out, in case you missed the late update last week.
Related: NetBSD 2020 Fundraising Campaign.
What started as investigating /opt on FreeBSD.
FixedMisc [MirOS] 20200214 released, for “I ? Free Software” day. Tangentially BSD.
Approaching the end of work on ptrace(2).
LLDB now works on i386.
A day as an OpenBSD developer. How do people discover ports?
Daily life with the offline laptop. (Running OpenBSD) I like the “What do I like to do?” breakdown approach.
An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation. I think that dates to the BSD timeframe.(via)
HamBSD Hardware Wanted. Scotland. (via)
Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD’s hypervisor. (via)
Pine64 February Update: Post CNY and FOSDEM Status Report. The Pro runs NetBSD, so it applies, along with fitting my small computer fetish. (via)
Can You Use FreeBSD for a Developer Machine in 2020? I’d argue that a ‘developer machine’ needs only a text editor and a file transfer program to qualify. (via)
Stanford 1967 PDP-6 logbook, a PDF. (via)
“SNMP Mastery” leaking out. BSD-first author, of course.

2019/12/212019/12/21

In Other BSDs for 2019/12/21

I managed to miss the Thursday update to BSDNow (#329) – Michael W. Lucas is interviewed mostly about his ~~unnatural love of gelato~~ BSD books , and he’s always an entertaining talker.

NomadBSD – Installation and First Impressions. (via)
Building Ansible Training Environment on FreeBSD. (via)
This is another reason to go to BUG meetings.
January 8th: next NYCBUG meeting, “What is notqmail?“. Note different location than usual.
FreeNAS 11.2-U7 is out, and a FreeNAS Hardware Guide. Speaking of which, FreeNAS 2020 plans, which mention bringing the interface to non-FreeBSD systems. What’s driving that? OpenSSH Key Shielding. (via)
Block bad hosts with PF. (via)
Packaging, Vendoring, and How It’s Changing. Related to BSD packaging. (via)
New PlayOnBSD Steam Grpup [sic] with Curator List of Games for OpenBSD.
Valuable News – 2019/12/16.
e2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on GoT and wireless.
Arduino Development on OpenBSD.

2019/11/232019/11/21

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/23

Read that last link, if only to make your convention-going safer in the future.

Maintaining port modifications in FreeBSD. (via)
The fading out of multi-‘architecture’ Unix environments.
Followup: In the old days, we didn’t use multiple Unixes by choice (mostly).
Valuable News – 2019/11/18.
OpenBSD on SPARC64 (6.0 to 6.5).
And the followup Running OpenBSD on SPARC64 (HTTPd, packages, patching, X11, …)
GEOM NOP.
p2k19 reports: Martin Pieuchot: The Unknown Plan,
Landry Breuil on unveil(2)-ing Mozilla, sqlite3 testing, Jeremy Evans on PostgreSQL and Ruby, krw@ adventures.
Creating new users dedicated to processes. Could work on any BSD except for doas.
Board of Directors and Officers elected. For NetBSD.
Support for Realtek RTL8125 2.5Gb Ethernet controller. For OpenBSD. 2.5Gb seems so arbitrary. (via)
Why is BSD>Linux?
Lessons Learned from Sendmail. Video. There’s lots of EuroBSDCon videos out there, but this is a good one cause this is one of the prototypical packages. (via)
BSD Link Roundup 11.18.
The Six Prequels to “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails”.
Proof I Am a Monster.

2019/11/182019/11/15

sudo at SEMIBUG tomorrow

Michael W. Lucas is presenting on sudo, to match his recent book, at SeMiBUG, tomorrow night. I think it may be getting held at a different location than usual. Go, if you are near.

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.