BSD – DragonFly BSD Digest

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)

2019/07/122019/07/09

This could be an In Other BSDs item, but it’s worth highlighting: saugns is a “Scriptable AUdio GeNeration System”; a utility for generating sounds – specifically FM modulation, in a way that will make you think “synthesizers!” There’s a whole language behind it, and the program, as the author, Joel K Pettersson, points out, compiles with no trouble on every BSD.

2019/07/112019/07/11

BSD Now 306: Comparing Hammers

BSD Now 306 is up, with the normal mix of stories about multiple BSDs… Except two separate ones are about DragonFly, so this week is extra good.

2019/07/092019/06/07

NYCBUG: Everyday ZFS with Brian Reynolds

Brian Reynolds will be presenting on “Everyday ZFS” at the next NYCBUG meeting, tomorrow, at the usual location. Go, if you are near.

2019/07/082019/07/05

Reminder: ChiBUG meeting tomorrow

If you are near the Chicago area, go to the ChiBUG meeting happening tomorrow night.

2019/07/062019/07/06

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/06

I have a backlog of more BSD links to add, beyond this – it was a busy week!

ChiBUG meets this Tuesday.
Developers: How PINE64 is creating a community to compete with Raspberry Pi’s. Linked because of the apparently-decent BSD support on PINE64 stuff. (via)
And now for something completely different: NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini (and making the kernel power failure proof). (via)
FreeBSD turns 26. (via)
OpenBSD Is Now My Workstation. (via)
Without a GUI–How to Live Entirely in a Terminal. I didn’t double-check for availability, but it’s essentially a list of ports to install. (via)
GSoC 2019 Report: Adding NetBSD KNF to clang-format, Part 1.
Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report.
Porting NetBSD to HummingBoard Pulse, Part 1.
Write your own fuzzer for NetBSD kernel! [Part 1].
Forking code support in ptrace(2).
Let’s Play on OpenBSD: Diablo.
Linux LVM on Openbsd?
Valuable News – 2019/07/01.
BSD Kernel Question from A Linux User.

2019/07/05

BSD Now 305: Changing face of Unix

I’m late posting this because I was on an island in Lake Huron instead of near a computer, but here it is now: BSD Now 304 is titled “Changing face of Unix” – that link is the show notes and will tell you more.

2019/07/052019/06/21

Japan NetBSD Users Group tomorrow

There’s a meeting of the NetBSD Japan user’s group, and an informal users session, tomorrow, in Tokyo. Go, if you are near. (via)

2019/06/292019/06/29

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/29

Last minute, again.

2019/06/27

BSD Now 304: Prospering with Vulkan

This week’s BSD Now talks about the normal assortment of news, including DragonFly’s release, and an explanation of the Vulkan framework in OpenBSD; something I hadn’t read about yet.

2019/06/222019/06/21

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/22

Done at the last minute!

Porting NetBSD to the RISC-V. (via)
FreeBSD 11.3Beta3 available.
What’s in there in BSD for a Ubuntu user?
pkgsrcCon 2019 in Cambridge, UK. (via)
Sponsor Sudo Mastery, second edition, in print or ebook form.
Celebrate UNIX50 and SDF32. (via)
First Taste of DragonFly BSD. (via)
Firewall appliance comparable to Netgate pfSense.
ZFS vs. OpenZFS.
Open ZFS vs. Btrfs | and other file systems.
Lenovo and non-Windows operating systems.

2019/06/21

End-of-week cross-pollination

A happy note for the end of the week: I like seeing cross-BSD work. (and POSIX)

2019/06/202019/06/20

BSD Now 303: OpenZFS in Ports

This week’s BSD Now talks a whole lot about ZFS, which is no surprise given the OpenZFS events going on. There’s other news, of course.

2019/06/17

SEMIBUG: Matt Parnell – Asterisk+FreePBX on FreeBSD

Matt Parnell is presenting Asterisk and FreePBX on FreeBSD at SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting, tomorrow, in Troy, Michigan. Go, if you are near.

Credit goes to SEMIBUG for creating a Google Calendar which makes it slightly more likely I’ll catch the meeting and post about it. Also, a nostalgia moment about the bad old days: I am so glad specialized hardware is no longer needed just to get on the phone network, since VoIP is widespread these days. I hated dealing with flaky PRI lines.