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2020/03/282020/03/27

In Other BSDs for 2020/03/28

I have multiple BSD based systems to update, reboot, and hopefully not physically visit in the next week or so.

pfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE Now Available.
Booting [OpenBSD] from an FFS2 filesystem.
[packages] Retiring Python 2 support in IPython.
AnsiMail, based on ansible, not ANSI as older folks may immediately think. (via)
Valuable News – 2020/03/23.
Bob Beck Interview from EuroBSDCon 2018.
XIGMANAS 12.1.0.4 Ingva Released. Did not know this existed. (via)
More than 1/3 of commercial games for OpenBSD on sale on GOG.com. (via)
Question about a game. (Ultimate Doom, on OpenBSD, though it may apply to any BSD)
FreeBSD 12.1 on a new (to me) ThinkPad T550.
OpenBSD’s ‘spinning’ CPU time category.
OpenBSD -current – Frequent asked questions.

2020/03/26

BSD Now 343: FreeBSD, Corona: Fight!

BSD Now 343 is quite topical this week: viruses and VPNs. Release information, etc., too.

2020/03/212020/03/20

In Other BSDs for 2020/03/21

A bit short this week; I think everyone’s been occupied with other issues.

2020/03/19

For once, I couldn’t figure out what the name of this week’s BSD Now episode referenced. It’s Data Virtual Address, in ZFS, which gets covered in the show. There’s a specific bit about Go and OpenBSD that I haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere, too. (see show notes)

2020/03/16

rcorder cross-pollination

rcorder-visualize.sh draws the dependencies for rc scripts using dot. Originally in NetBSD, then in FreeBSD, now in DragonFly.

2020/03/142020/03/13

In Other BSDs for 2020/03/14

Throwing all the links I can out there.

March/April BUG meetings canceled for NYCBUG and SEMIBUG.
FreeBSD Journal 2020/01-02. (PDF, via)
FreeBSD Find Installed Hard Disk Size Information. (via)
GhostBSD 20.02 Overview. (video, via)
Introduction to Flua on FreeBSD. (via)
FreeBSD Loader and Console Future. (via)
OPNsense 20.1.2 released.
FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying. TrueNAS 12 will be the One True… NAS
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Rafael Sadowski on KDE+Qt5 progress, more.
My infrastructure as of 2019. Not a bad model.
Valuable News – 2020/03/02 and 2020/03/09.
OpenBSD Errata: March 13th, 2020 (sosplice). (via)
OpenBSD Errata: March 10th, 2020 (sysctl). (via)
New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2020-002.
Accomplishment of porting ptrace(2) test scenarios.
Towards backtracing through signal trampolines and fresh libc++.
How to Set Up Windows SMB Shares on FreeNAS.
The Expression Amrilato (Renpy compatible).
Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius (free visual novel on GOG).
cwm-like Window Manager for NetBSD and FreeBSD?
Let’s Play on OpenBSD: Northgard.
Let’s Play on OpenBSD: Dead Cells 1.7.6 with The Bad Seed DLC.
OpenBSD Full Disk Encryption with CoreBoot and Tianocore Payload.
Does anyone have KDE on FreeBSD working with multiple monitors?
Clearing up FreeBSD GCC news.
FreeBSD 12.1 Nvidia desktop.

2020/03/12

BSD Now 341: U-NAS-ification

BSD Now 341 is about unification, get it? It’s covering the merging of TrueNAS/FreeNAS, along with the usual roundup of news, including POWER9 and FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Go, and so on.

2020/03/102020/02/25

ChiBUG meeting, tonight, at a new location

ChiBUG meets tonight, and it’s at the Oak Park Library, not the usual place. Go, if you are near, and especially if you were too far away, before. This spot may be more accessible.

2020/03/072020/03/06

In Other BSDs for 2020/03/07

I have not yet even gone through my BSD RSS feeds for some days and I already have plenty of links for you.

Test your TOR.
Census Program II, an evaluation of open-source software dependencies. Linux-specific, but applies to ports and BSD. (via)
Arena Unix II swim cap.
OpenBSD versus Prometheus (and Go).
Unix’s /usr split and standards (and practice) and The /bin versus /usr split and diskless workstations. Dates back to early BSD history.
tinyc.games. Should work on BSD? (via)
POWER to the People – Making FreeBSD First Class Citizen on POWER. (via)
FreeBSD Finally Removes GCC 4.2.1 from Base System after 13 Years. (via)
Release of pkg 1.13 for FreeBSD. (via)
Xorg 1.20.7 on HardenedBSD Comes with IE/RELRO+BIND_NOW/CFI/SafeStack Protections. (via)
Open source licenses: 2019 year in review. (via)
Eternal Terminal. (via)

2020/03/05

BSD Now 340: Check my sums

BSD Now 340 is up, with dives into different BSD platform tools; very enjoyable if you like digging into how things work, which of course you do if you are reading this.

2020/03/022020/02/15

NYCBUG, Vixie: “Operating Systems as Dumb Pipes”

Dr. Paul Vixie is giving a talk at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting, titled “Operating Systems as Dumb Pipes“. It’s tomorrow. Go, if you are near; this is one of the people who built basic blocks of the Internet’s infrastructure.

2020/03/022020/02/06

BSD Stockholm meeting, tomorrow

If you are near Stockholm, go to the Stockholm BUG meeting, tomorrow. I’m posting it a bit ahead of time to account for time zone difference.

2020/02/292020/02/28

In Other BSDs for 2020/02/29

Happy leap day!

RSVP to the ChiBUG mailing list if you are attending the March 10th meeting, in its new location.
The Vixie talk at NYCBUG is this week; this is worth making an extra trip for.
Critical OpenSMTPd update.
FreeBSD 12.0 EOL.
A Q&A with the FreeBSD Foundation.
Valuable News – 2020/02/10, 2020/02/17, and 2020/02/24. Clearly I am behind.
FreeBSD Enterprise Storage at PBUG.
dig(1), host(1) and nslookup(1) moved to /usr/bin.
a2k20 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on xhci(4),dhclient(8), and scsi.
OpenBSD Foundation 2019 campaign wrapup.
FOSDEM 2020 videos available.
OPNsense 20.1.1 released.
Warning! Active Directory Security Changes Require TrueNAS and FreeNAS Updates.
Full name of root account in BSD. A chunk of history I had never heard.
Managing a database of vulnerabilities for a package system: the pkgsrc study case. (PDF, via)
Low power BSD-based AP/router?
HashLink port for running Dead Cells. (via)

2020/02/282020/02/28

BSD Now 339: BSD Fundraising

I am running a bit late posting about it, but BSD Now 339 is out, with conversations about recent different releases, plus as the title says, fundraising.

2020/02/222020/02/21

In Other BSDs for 2020/02/22

No theme this week cause I think I hit everything.

Dr. Paul Vixie is giving a talk on March 3rd at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting, titled “Operating Systems as Dumb Pipes“. I’ll post a reminder.
NetBSD 9.0 is out, in case you missed the late update last week.
Related: NetBSD 2020 Fundraising Campaign.
What started as investigating /opt on FreeBSD.
FixedMisc [MirOS] 20200214 released, for “I ? Free Software” day. Tangentially BSD.
Approaching the end of work on ptrace(2).
LLDB now works on i386.
A day as an OpenBSD developer. How do people discover ports?
Daily life with the offline laptop. (Running OpenBSD) I like the “What do I like to do?” breakdown approach.
An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation. I think that dates to the BSD timeframe.(via)
HamBSD Hardware Wanted. Scotland. (via)
Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD’s hypervisor. (via)
Pine64 February Update: Post CNY and FOSDEM Status Report. The Pro runs NetBSD, so it applies, along with fitting my small computer fetish. (via)
Can You Use FreeBSD for a Developer Machine in 2020? I’d argue that a ‘developer machine’ needs only a text editor and a file transfer program to qualify. (via)
Stanford 1967 PDP-6 logbook, a PDF. (via)
“SNMP Mastery” leaking out. BSD-first author, of course.

2020/02/20

BSD Now 338: iocage in Jail

BSD Now 338 is up, which strangely is listed as the “100th episode” on the site, but I think that means it’s only indexed through #239. Anyway, it has the normal ingredients – a ZFS article, a convention note, and a link into a conversation about OpenBSD, among other things.