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2020/09/192020/09/18

In Other BSDs for 2020/09/19

No theme, just everything in a bucket.

NetBSD-current now has GCC 9.3.0 for x86/ARM, with ASan, TSan (for 64bit archs), UBSan and LSan. (via)
FreeBSD Core Team office hours this week.
Interprocess Communication in FreeBSD 11 – Performance Analysis. (via)
Rolling distribution releases versus periodic releases are a tradeoff. Linked here because BSD releases are both (point and -current)
Over 1000 subscribers celebration thread!
webcam on MidnightBSD.
nut – testing shutdown and startup.
GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, third evaluation report.
FuryBSD 2020-Q3 The world’s first OpenZFS based live image.
Retro UNIX. Sorta PreBSD. (via)
FreeBSD 12.2 beta1.
TrueNAS 12.0rc1.
BSD Link Roundup 9.11.
Firewall Ban-sharing across machines.
Valuable News – 2020/09/14.
My New Project: zedfs.com.
login_ldap added to -current. (OpenBSD)

BSD Now 368: Changing OS roles

The theme of this week’s BSD Now seems to be about new roles for BSD, cause there’s talk about clustering and console changes.

2020/09/122020/09/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/09/12

Perhaps a performance tweaks mini-theme this week?

Valuable News – 2020/09/07.
OPNsense 20.7.2 Released.
Quare FreeBSD?
FreeBSD Mini Git Primer. (via)
Install OpenBSD 6.7 with Disk Encryption and FVWM Ricing. Note for non-English speakers: “ricing” is a derogatory term. (via)
NetBSD Tips and Tricks. (via)
OpenBSD/FreeBSD performance.
Beginner’s Guide to FreeBSD. More of an overview. (via)
nut – testing the shutdown mechanism.
The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 4)
pkgsrc Developer Monotony. Common in any open source project in the long term, I think.
MidnightBSD 1.2.8 and MidnightBSD 2.0-CURRENT.

BSD Now 367: Changing jail datasets

This week’s BSD Now is a mix of historical content, and ZFS news items. Surely one or both of those interest you?

2020/09/052020/09/04

In Other BSDs for 2020/09/05

It’s a good mix this week.

ChiBUG’s next meeting is in a few days, the 8th. I’ll post about it again.
FreeBSD 11.3 EOL.
Modernizing the OpenBSD console.
Valuable News – 2020/08/31.
FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync.
6.8-beta tagged in CVS. (OpenBSD)
PPP Over a WiFi232. Incidentally, how to run a PPP server in OpenBSD.
GSoC 2020: Report-2: Fuzzing the NetBSD Network Stack in a Rumpkernel Environment.
Find which package provides a given file in OpenBSD.
The roles of OSs have changed. I like the alternate world suggestion.
Running Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD. (via)
In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? If you’ve been reading this Digest for some time, I bet you already know many of these. (via)
My Broadcast [The UNIX rwall problem]. (via)

BSD Now 366: Bootloader zpool checkpoints

No pun in this week’s BSD Now title, but that’s usual now. ZFS news is the bulk of this week’s episode.

2020/08/292020/08/27

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/29

No theme, but plenty of variety.

A reimplementation of NetBSD based on a microkernel.
Valuable News – 2020/08/24.
“TLS Mastery” Covers Reveal, with T-shirts and Posters.
TrueNAS 12.0 beta out.
MidnightBSD 1.2.7 out.
pkgdb belongs in libdata, not var. Them’s fightin’ words!
rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc. Them too!
GhostBSD financial reports. I like seeing this out in the open. (via)
What is the oldest BSD? Not as short an answer as you may think. (via)
Tarsnap podcast episode with FreeBSD ex security officer Colin Percival. (via)
From 8′ to 4″: massive pkgsrc performance gain by replacing a shell script with awk.

BSD Now 365: Whole year round

This week’s BSD Now is a nice round number, 365, and covers all sorts of subjects. I like the command line tools vs Hadoop link.

2020/08/222020/08/21

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/22

Started this with overflow from last week.

BSD Now 364: FreeBSD Wireless Grind

This week’s BSD Now talks about a bunch of different hardware platforms.

2020/08/152020/08/13

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/15

Check the BSDCan videos this week; there’s more than a day’s worth of material right there.

BSDCan 2020 videos. (via)
File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness. Not only BSD. (via)
My views on some conventions for Unix command line options, followed by Unix options conventions are just that, which makes them products of culture. Related to last week’s options links.
A Generation Lost in the Bazaar. 2012 but still accurate. (via)
EvilQuest on OpenBSD.
FreeBSD and Jails at BSD Rennes, an event I did not know about. Here’s more.
Drawing Pictures The Unix Way – with pic and troff.
Valuable News – 2020/08/10.
Recovering 2.11BSD, fighting the patches.
LLVM 10.0.0 imported into -current.
NetBSD on the NanoPi NEO2. (via)
GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, second evaluation report.
GSoC 2020 Second Evaluation Report: Curses Library Automated Testing.

BSD Now 363: Traditional Unix toolchains

This week’s BSD Now links to recent items on the UNIX way of tools, which is certainly a source of endless thinkpieces but also good history to know.

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

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/08

Fun variety this week.

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.

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.

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.