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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.

2019/05/162019/05/16

BSD On The Road | BSD Now 298

I am confused because it seems like we had two BSD Now episodes in a week, but I am not complaining. Episode 298 is up (show notes) and has a goat.

2019/05/142019/05/15

BSDCan registration, session details – updated

If you didn’t see the email: here’s details on how BSDCan 2019 is starting up, this weekend. Go, even if you aren’t near.

Update: corrected registration details.

2019/05/14

BSD Now 297: Dragonfly In The Wild

It’s on the RSS feed but not in the normal place, and it’s early, so I bet this week’s BSD Now is put together early because of travel. I’m linking to it early for similar reasons.

2019/05/132019/05/12

ChiBUG meeting tomorrow

ChiBUG is meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, at Giordano’s at 6. Go, if you are near, and ask joshua stein about his astonishing hardware hacks.

2019/05/112019/05/10

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/11

The last weather station link is a real gem.

BSDCan 2019 details.
The Open Source Financial Developers Association could use some BSD testing.
iXsystems Takes the Plunge with Liquid Immersion Servers.
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2019 projects. (NetBSD)
Improvements in forking, threading, and signal code. (NetBSD)
Valuable News – 2019/05/06.
Simple way to generate strong passwords. (via)
My Bash Script to Brighten up your BSD box by wallpapers from Reddit. (via)
OpenBSD, httpd & WordPress: Making it work. (via)
OPNsense 19.1.7 released.
OmniOS – r151030 – Stable and LTS Release is out.
ZFS Implementation in Python. (via)
Supporting Go Modules in pkgsrc (Part 2). (via)
A weather station fit for a PDP-11. This is gloriously useless.

2019/05/09

BSD Now 296: It’s Alive: OpenBSD 6.5

This week’s BSD Now covers (ecumenically) OpenBSD’s release, NetBSD 9, the FreeBSD jails book, and so on. Check the show notes for details.

2019/05/042019/05/03

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/04

I’m still not making through all the stuff I need to link to, but this is enough to keep you busy for today.

The FreeBSD 2019 Community Survey.
Some useful features of (GNU) date for things like time conversion. Compares to the FreeBSD version.
ZFS on Linux on FreeBSD for testing. Argh.
Informal CDBUG session this week – speak up if you are near.
Next Batch of Updated Plugins and How to Recover from Failed Plugin Updates. (iXSystems)
OpenBSD automatic upgrade. (via)
Mount your ZFS datasets anywhere you want.
Valuable News?-?2019/04/29.
stardew valley not working on openbsd 6.5 -current.
LLDB: extending CPU register inspection support.
What are the differences between Linux and OpenBSD? (via)
Writing Exploit-Resistant Code With OpenBSD. (via)
CFT: FreeBSD Package Base.
TrueCommand: Manage Multiple FreeNAS and TrueNAS Systems.

2019/04/30

NYCBUG: Lookup Data Structures in the FreeBSD Kernel

The May NYCBUG meeting is tomorrow night, at 6:30 PM at Suspenders. The presentation is “Lookup Data Structures in the FreeBSD Kernel“. Go, if you are near.

2019/04/29

KnoxBUG meeting canceled tonight

Tonight’s KnoxBUG meeting is canceled at the last minute due to a family emergency. Don’t go, if you are near.

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.

2019/04/26

It’s several years old, but worth viewing: .ike’s presentation of “Shell Fu” from NYCBUG, as video. Also: May event speaker needed. (via)
The FreeBSD-12 support model.
“OpenVMS vs. Unix” (antagonists or sisters?).
Previous link via Nixers Newsletter 121.
Back in the Day: UNIX, Minix and Linux. The author rewrote wump(6) for 4.3 BSD.
Looking for a worm and encrypted storage solution. FreeNAS + Greentec.
OpenSSH 8.0 released. (via)
Create a dedicated user for ssh tunneling only. OpenBSD as the example platform.
Deploying munin-node with drist. Probably could be done on any BSD.
Valuable News – 2019/04/15.
Next Polish BSD user group meeting: April 25th. I’ll post a reminder.
Moving your IMAP server to a third party: FastMail. FastMail is a mail host I’ve heard recommendations for multiple times.
GhostBSD 19.04 Now Available. (via)
docbook2mdoc-1.0.0 released.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: On rsync, ssh, and ports cruft.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: unwinding in Taipei.
Setting up a new Dovecot server on FreeBSD with an OSX mail.app client.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q1 release.
BSD Link Roundup 4.12.
battery consuming battery software.

2019/04/18

BSD Now 294: The SSH Tarpit

BSD Now 294 is up, with (among other things) a link to the well-named Endlessh.

2019/04/132019/04/13

In Other BSDs for 2019/04/13

Straight open tab dump, again!

FreeBSD ARM64 AMIs are now available for Amazon EC2. (via)
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and OpenBSD.
Small NAS questions. Follow the thread; there’s many suggestions.
Challenge accepted: OpenBSD on a laptop. (via)
Encrypted (LUKS) HAMMER1 master/slave NFS fileserver : 9 months later.
[packages] libreoffice and password-protected .od* files. Not strictly BSD but could surprise someone.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Putting the hack(6) in hackathon, and other stories.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on 802.11? progress, suspend/resume and more.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on dhclient, disklabel, and more.
Our plan for handling TRIM’ing our ZFS fileserver SSDs.
Playing Slay the Spire on OpenBSD.
From Zero to NVMM.
Introducing funlinkat.
Valuable News – 2019/04/08.
~~OPNsense 19.1.5 released~~ no wait OPNsense 19.1.6 released.
April Plugins Update.
Run S3 Object Storage on FreeNAS and TrueNAS.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” Print Sponsor Gifts Threaten to Topple. The book is available to order now.
NOWBSD.

A late update: BSDCan 2019 registration, plus an update.

2019/04/11

BSD Now 293: Booking Jails

BSD Now 293 has an interview with Michael W. Lucas on his newest book in the BSD Mastery series: BSD Mastery: Jails. It’s available to purchase now.

2019/04/062019/04/05

In Other BSDs for 2019/04/06

Lots of BUG news this week; thank you all for the leads on groups to watch.

Talking Jails at Semibug, 9 April 2019. Note the meeting has been moved up a week.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” and a new novella.
April 9th Meetup. ChiBUG.
Rusted ravens: Ravenports march 2019 status update. There’s some DragonFly stuff in there I haven’t had a chance to link to.
How to use NetBSD on a Raspberry Pi. (via)
Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles. Almost UNIX, almost BSD. (via)
Before Unix: An Early History of Timesharing Systems. Influences on BSD.(via)
OpenRA imported – game engine recreation for RTS games of the Command & Conquer family. (via)
Project Trident 18.12-U8 Available. (via)
Removing PF. (via)
Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – Redundant Backup. (via)
LLDB/LLVM report for March 2019. NetBSD.
Continuation of signal semantics improvements. NetBSD.
iked curve25519 group number change. OpenBSD.
Valuable News – 2019/04/01.
Sega Dreamcast Running NetBSD. (via)
UNIX and BSD Discord/Matrix Servers.
BSD Router Project 1.92 is now available. (via)

2019/04/042019/04/04

BSD Now 292: AsiaBSDCon 2019

BSD Now 292 has a nice recap from attending AsiaBSDCon 2019, along with the normal news roundup. I advise everyone to go to a BSD convention if possible; they are always fun.

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