BSD – DragonFly BSD Digest

2021/06/122021/06/09

In Other BSDs for 2021/06/12

Multiple links from one source is the mini-theme this week.

FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective. (via)
Simple use of Let’s Encrypt on OpenBSD is pleasantly straightforward (as of 6.8).
actually, BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt. The comments at the source all disagree.
NetBSD : Enable swap encryption by default. (via)
OpenBGPD 7.0 is out.
LEAP is removed from FreeRADIUS and therefore from OpenBSD.
FreeBSD package building pt. 1: Introduction and test system, pt. 2: Basic Synth, and pt. 3: Intermediate Synth.
Valuable News – 2021/06/07.
Diving into toolchains. Deep dive!
Updating my FreeBSD 12.2 host to FreeBSD 13.0, a test of this ZFS boot environment upgrade post I’ve linked before.
Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail. You may need this.
pfSense Plus 21.05-RELEASE Now Available.
GearBSD: a project to help automating your OpenBSD and GearBSD: managing your packages on OpenBSD.

BSD Now 406: Jailed Gemini Capsule

Sounds like a space drama: this week’s BSD Now covers some different flavors of virtualization plus notes a Michael W. Lucas interview.

2021/06/052021/06/04

In Other BSDs for 2021/06/05

Literally this is my open browser tabs pasted in order.

Jitsi on OpenBSD, specifically how to make it work.
NetBSD IRC channels are also moved to Libera.
Also KDE on FreeBSD — IRC channels.
Gaming on NomadBSD – Based on FreeBSD 13. (via)
Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions. “Distributions”. (via)
Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD. (via)
NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit, next week.
HardenedBSD May 2021 Status Report.
NetBSD 9.2’s new default package DB location.
FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6. It is adorable.
What you can’t install with NetBSD’s pkgsrc.
Harsh resource limits on CGIs set for the MirBSD server.
aiomixer, X/Open Curses and ncurses, and other news.
FYI – Upcoming 1.17 release requires JDK 16 (and thus -current). For Minecraft on BSD users.
Updating my FreeBSD 12.2 host to FreeBSD 13.0.
Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail.
Rumors of an OpenBSD game console?
Valuable News – 2021/05/31.
Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years. Look at the first comment on the source.
You Can Watch Netflix on FreeBSD. (via)

BSD Now 405: OOM Killer Feature

This week’s BSD Now talks about starts (NetBSD, DragonFly releases) and ends (preventing memory-based process kills, deleting boot environments).

2021/06/012021/05/13

NYCBUG: Minimal Scripted Configuration

Tomorrow, for NYCBUG, Minimal Scripted Configuration from Eric Radman. Go, if you’re online.

2021/05/292021/05/29

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/29

Some useful setup instructions in here.

BSD Now 404: BSD Now Hosts Not Found

This week’s BSD Now is an excellent HTTP joke but is also effectively a guest episode, with some new talkers.

2021/05/222021/05/22

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/22

Done early, and I have more BSD-related tabs to get through.

BSD Now 403: The Linuxulator Investment

This week’s BSD Now, a light run, talks about licensing and industrial automation, but not at the same time.

2021/05/152021/05/13

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/15

Some opinion, some documentation.

Running FreeBSD Jails with containerd 1.5. (via)
Install Firefox under FreeBSD and Set it Up with Privacy. (via)
As Longtime BSD User I Have My Doubts About Our Future. First comment in the source link about not using strengths is true.
FreeBSD PKG Base Repository. (via)
CGI with Awk on OpenBSD httpd. (via)
pfSense – WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package. (via)
March/April 2021 FreeBSD Journal. Why doesn’t this show in the RSS feed for that site? (via)
NetBSD Foundation Annual General Meeting, online, May 22.
FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q1.
Registration Open for the June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit.
Talk and ytalk nostalgia.
LLDB core dump support improvements.

BSD Now 402: Goodbye GPL

This week’s BSD Now leads with that article about how the GPL isn’t fit for purpose; read it if you have not yet.

2021/05/112021/05/09

ChiBUG meeting, virtual, today

The ChiBUG May 11th Meeting is today, and it’s virtual – so you can go and should.

2021/05/082021/05/08

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/08

Lots to read, yet I still have unposted tabs!

Refurb weekend: Hewlett-Packard 9000/350. HPUX which was BSD, I think?
ChiBUG is meeting May 11th, on Zoom. There’ll be a presentation on iked(8). Go, especially if you’ve ever done IPSEC anything. I’ll post a reminder.
HardenedBSD April 2021 Status Report.
My Infrastructure as of 2020. (OpenBSD)
KDE Plasma Wayland on FreeBSD and Wayland on FreeBSD with AMDGPU.
OpenBSD: getting started.
NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS).
On Updating QEMU’s bsd-user fork.
Valuable News – 2021/04/26 and 2021/05/03.
FreeBSD router take 2 (pt. 2): Excursion – FreeBSD and security.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 5. The series returns!

2021/05/062021/05/07

BSD Now 401: OpenBSD Dog Garage

This week’s BSD Now has a great title, and you can guess what the first linked article will be. The other items in this week are analytic and also entertaining in their own way.

2021/05/052021/04/23

Polyglot *BSD at NYCBUG, tonight

Brian Callahan presents for NYCBUG on compiler support in the BSDs, tonight. Send an email for a Zoom invite.

2021/05/012021/05/01

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/01

There’s some opinions mixed in this week!

NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS). (via)
FreeBSD 13 on a 12 year old laptop. (via)
OPNsense switches back to vanilla FreeBSD. (via)
Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail. (via)
Lexical File Names in Plan 9 or Getting Dot Dot Right. (PDF, via)
FVWM 3 and Quest for Comfortable NetBSD Desktop. (via)
It’s time to say goodbye to the GPL. (via)
Hunt the Wumpus on the AskHistorians Podcast. Pre-BSD.
FreeBSD meetings on the Desktop.
OpenBSD 6.9 is out, with this perk.
From Linux to BSD. (video, via)
FreeBSD 13.0 on Raspberry Pi 400 – Quick Look. (video, via)
Interview with Michael Lucas FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Unix, IT and other books author. (via)
FreeBSD Best Practices virtual panel discussion, 2 sessions. Related to WireGuard, I think.

BSD Now 400: FreeBSD became 13

BSD Now has made it to the 400-episode milestone, and this one is a normal mix – the FreeBSD 13 release, multifactor on OpenBSD, etc.

CharmBUG: meeting tonight

“OpenIKED: On The Road Again” is the topic tonight, at 6 PM eastern, at CharmBUG. (via)

2021/04/242021/04/26

In Other BSDs for 2021/04/24

BUG meetings seem to be happening again, which is nice.

FreeBSD iostat: Understanding the Storage Subsystem and Disk I/O. (via)
Port of the week: musickube. Looks … usable?!
Deleting old FreeBSD boot environments.
No Complexity Allowed, on hello. (via)
FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13.
Polyglot *BSD, next NYCBSD meeting, 2021/05/05. I’ll post a reminder day-of.
ChiBUG May 11th Meeting – Virtual. This too.
Initial Support for the riscv64 Architecture.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 23 – Herbe Notifications and Part 24 – Universal File Opener.
OPNsense 21.1.5 released.
Valuable News – 2021/04/19.
Port of the week: pup.
FreeBSD router take 2 (pt. 1): OPNsense ZFS-based installation.

2021/04/222021/04/22

BSD Now 399: Comparing Sandboxes

This week’s BSD Now is more technical than usual, talking about a bunch of setup options. The title lead is an article about sandbox environments in different BSDs, though unfortunately vkernels are not covered.