BSD – DragonFly BSD Digest

2020/08/10

ChiBUG meets tomorrow

This can’t wait for the In Other BSDs weekend: ChiBUG is meeting at Giordano’s, in Oak Park, 6 PM on the 11th. Go if you are anywhere near Chicago.

2020/08/082020/08/05

BSD Now 362: 2.11-BSD restoration

This week’s BSD Now leads with an interview of Warner Losh and his work with reviving 2.11BSD. Everyone’s been linking to his posts about it, so now you can hear his plans.

2020/08/012020/07/30

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/01

That last link is around the corner from me.

2020/07/30

BSD Now 361: Function-based MicroVM

This week’s BSD Now talks about a number of different releases, and also Emulex.

2020/07/252020/07/23

In Other BSDs for 2020/07/25

Lots of old BSD this week.

Traditional Unix Toolchains. (via)
2.11BSD Original Tapes Recreation. Patch level 0. (via)
Related: Adding Networking to 2.11BSD pl 195.
Related if you want to do this yourself: SIMH Setup for 2.11BSD pl 0 Project.
How to do Pull-ups to pkgsrc-stable.
MidnightBSD 1.2.3 tagged.
Enable Duo 2FA for SSH on MidnightBSD. Useful for any BSD.
ZFS High Availability Filesystem With minio on FreeBSD. (via)
Valuable News – 2020/07/20.
April to June 2020 Status Report for FreeBSD.
I’m back into the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack and 802.11ac and Fixing up ath_rate_sample to actually work well with 11n.

2020/07/23

BSD Now 360: Full circle

This week’s BSD Now is making reference to the episode count, I think. Of note this week: lots of how-to-do-this sorts of links.

2020/07/182020/07/16

In Other BSDs for 2020/07/18

There’s a separate Summer of Code section this week.

The Homura Project.
First powerpc64 snapshots available. (OpenBSD)
Timecounters available to userland in -current.
Sponsor NetBSD (and pkgsrc) on Github. (via)
Checking if FreeBSD geli is using AES-NI.
Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and NVRAM. Semisure this is still BSD. (via)
HardenedBSD July 2020 Status Report. (via)
Focker is FreeBSD Image Orchestration Tool in Vein of Docker . (via)
NetBSD Summer of Code reports:
FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 2020Q2. “Picked with the roll of a d100”.
TrueNAS 12.0 beta available.
Valuable News – 2020/07/13.

2020/07/16

BSD Now 359: Throwaway Browser

This week’s BSD Now covers the usual roundup of news. Of note: experimental FreeBSD binary updates, and as you can guess from the title, another method of segregating your web browser from the rest of your environment.

2020/07/14

pf-badhost and unbound-adblock, and DragonFly

Both pf-badhost and unbound-adblock are now supported on DragonFly, as described in this post to users@ from Jordan Geoghegan. Other BSDs, too.

2020/07/112020/07/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/07/11

Dragged right out of my RSS feeds.

Chai-Fi, the minimalistic wpa_supplicant.conf “manager” for FreeBSD. (via)
Valuable News – 2020/06/29 and Valuable News – 2020/07/06.
Classic ThinkPad Thermal Paste Change. Bookmarked cause I’ll eventually need it. There’s a Lenovo fan control for BSD buried in there too.
FreeBSD Virtual Bug Squash event, happening today.
Deep Integration of Filesystem Extended Attribute Support. (HardenedBSD)
OPNsense 20.1.8 released.
TrueCommand 1.3 out.
OpenBSD upgraders need to delete libperl.a.
Diablo (Hell/Hell co-op) – PlayOnBSD. (via)
Emulex – Cheapest 10GE for Your Homelab on FreeBSD. (via)
Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro.
Via previous link: Everyone should buy the USEBSD sticker.

2020/07/042020/07/04

In Other BSDs for 2020/07/04

This should be prime convention season, darnit.

Smallest device running BSD?
Android in FreeBSD bhyve. (via)
The FreeBSD binary package manager cheatsheet. Applies to DragonFly too. (via)
BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction Results.
BSDCAN 2020 talk on Using OpenBGPd as a Control Plane for an ISP.
Graphical view of the x86 OpenBSD boot process.
Command Line Bug Hunting in FreeBSD. (via)
The Era of Fragmentation, Part 4: The Anarchists. Touches early BSD UNIX.
Announcing FreeBSD Fridays: A Series of 101 Classes. (via)
pkgsrc-2020Q2 released.
End of support for NetBSD 7.
ChiBUG has a poll up about meeting. Vote, if you are near.

2020/07/02

BSD Now 357: Study the Code

This week’s BSD Now, by accident or design, covers booting different BSDs on different hardware – take a look.

2020/06/272020/06/26

In Other BSDs for 2020/06/27

Overflow again, finally.

- BSD Resources, a list of BSD-based products. Missed one. (via)
- FreeBSD Day shifted. (via)
- Throw-Away Browser on FreeBSD With “pot” Within 5 Minutes. See also. (also via)
- WireGuard Merged Into OpenBSD. (via)
- Related: Trying out WireGuard’s kernel support in OpenBSD’s -current snapshots. (via)
- Getting Started with NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro. (via)
- More FreeBSD HPE Microserver homelab answers.
- Rubenerd Show 411: The FreeBSD cat(1) episode.
- Valuable News – 2020/06/22.
- Renaming and replacing zroot filesystems using mfsBSD.
- My FreeBSD Laptop Build. (via)
- The End of OS X. Touches a bit on early BSD history. (via)
- FreeBSD on the Intel 10th Gen i3 NUC. (via)
- TLS defaults changed in ldapd(8).

2020/06/25

BSD Now 356: Dig In Deeper

The most recent BSD Now covers a number of different topics, some of which you may have already seen linked. There’s some reader questions too, which I’m sure you have not seen.

2020/06/24

Privsep for dhcpcd

I deliberately made the headline obscure for fun. Anyway, the most recent bugfix release for dhcpcd, 9.1.2, happens to set capiscum/pledge-style privilege separation for the program – without requiring those technologies to be built into the system.