It rhymes if you say it out loud. Jason Tubnor will present at 7 PM tonight (Detroit local time) on installing and configuring Xfce and KDE on FreeBSD.
In Other BSDs for 2022/05/14
“BSD” is in almost every line as a title. Maybe not a surprise, but visually noticeable.
- Paying a visit to planet BSD. (via)
- Branching for NetBSD 10. (via)
- Brainstorming Entropy for NetBSD. (via)
- How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD.
- compiling an openbsd kernel 50% faster.
- New FreeBSD How-To: Networking Basics: WiFi and Bluetooth.
- where’s all the code?
- May 17th 7 PM Detroit, MI time, Jason Tubnor will present on installing and configuring Xfce and KDE on FreeBSD.
- May 21: NetBSD Annual General Meeting. That’s 1 week from now.
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC6 available.
- Valuable News – 2022/05/10.
- How to contribute to the OpenBSD project.
- VM (VM ( … This is weird/dangerous.
BSD Now 454: Compiling 50% faster
I can’t help but think of this as the 1# episode of BSD Now; tell me if you get why. Anyway, there’s lots of OpenBSD in this week’s BSD Now.
In Other BSDs for 2022/05/07
My BSD RSS feeds are overflowing.
- PiKVM using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. I keep reading that as “pikmin”.
- switchd(8) removed from OpenBSD.
- OpenBSD 7.1: fan noise and high temperature solution.
- vuls – Agent-less vulnerability scanner. (via)
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC5 available.
- HardenedBSD April 2022 Status Report.
- Missing Steam Deck Functions. (Terraria, OpenBSD, Steam)
- Minecraft 1.16.5(and more) with microsoft accounts on openbsd 7.1.
- Video guide to install OpenBSD 7.1 with the GNOME desktop.
- Writing my first OpenBSD game using Godot.
- Valuable News – 2022/05/02.
- syspatch71-001_wifi reissued. “May require manual intervention”
- Let’s Talk About [FreeBSD] Foundation Funding.
- I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD.
BSD Now 453: TwinCat/BSD Hypervisor
This week’s BSD Now, which I almost missed, covered one of the rarely-mentioned BSD Variants, TwinCat.
In Other BSDs for 2022/04/30
How-to week rather than updates week.
- Let’s install OpenBSD/riscv64 on QEMU. (via)
- How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD.
- iblock: block scanner TCP connections under OpenBSD. (via)
- I was able to build Overgrowth on NetBSD.
- KDE-FreeBSD CI.
- LibreSSL 3.5.2 released.
- Valuable News – 2022/04/25.
- OpenBSD is the Perfect OS post Nuclear Apocalypse. (via)
- Playing the game Bottomless on OpenBSD. (via)
- I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD. (via)
- New Board Member Interview: Cat Allman. The last name should seem familiar.
- Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS: Part 2: Tuning Your FreeBSD Configuration for Your NAS.
BSD Now 452: The unknown hackers
This week’s BSD Now starts off talking about recently-deceased and somewhat legendary Bill Jolitz. He is to me the source of the term “flat food person“.
ChiBUG meeting tomorrow
RSVP if you are near Chicago and can go.
In Other BSDs for 2022/04/23
A bunch of releases this week.
- OpenBGPD 7.3 released.
- tcsh vi mode cursor shapes.
- sometimes the knote comes early.
- The Zephyrus G14 is not a MacBook Pro 14, and Sundry Observations and Insights…
- two and a half bad bits.
- OpenBSD Gaming Updates Q2 2022.
- Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs NixOS.
- Valuable News – 2022/04/19.
- MidnightBSD 2.1.7 RELEASE. (via)
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC4 is out.
- OpenBSD 7.1 released.
- OpenBSD Webzine #9 is out.
- Interacting with FreeBSD: Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell. FreeBSD 14 is switching default root shell, apparently.
BSD Now 451: Tuning ZFS recordsize
It’s almost all ZFS tidbits this week for BSD Now.
Me, talking now
I’m on at SEMIBUG’s meeting right now.
I hope to have a recording to post later. Nnnnope! A lesson for you and me both; test recording before an actual event starts.
Me at SEMIBUG
I’m talking about DragonFly at SEMIBUG’s online meeting (using Jitsi) tomorrow.
UPDATE: https://meet.jit.si/SEMI-BUGDragonFlyBSD is the Jitsi link. It’ll be 7 PM Eastern time.
In Other BSDs for 2022/04/16
Note the upcoming presentations…
- Nixers #138.
- Writing a device driver for Unix V6. (via)
- ChiBUG’s meeting April 29th in person. RSVP if you are coming.
- SEMIBUG’s meeting April 19th online, and I’m the guest speaker.
- Valuable News – 2022/04/11.
- Penguicon 2022 Schedule and Books. Michael W. Lucas isn’t presenting on BSD but he’ll have some BSD-related books. Please buy Savaged by systemd from him. I just saw it in audiobook form through Google search and no I will not click on it.
- OpenSSH 9.0 released.
- switch to current or wait for 7.1? Really, a Minecraft question.
- Fundraising Update Q1 2022.
- FreeBSD 13.1 on ThinkPad W520.
- Q1 2022 Software Development Projects Update.
- Improving Replication Security With OpenZFS Delegation.
- OpenBSD 7.0 video overview.
BSD Now 450: Unix Tool Writing
This week’s BSD Now, which I remembered to link to on time, is about Unix tools as a concept.
In Other BSDs for 2022/04/09
Last news item is the saddest.
- Does swap still matter? I linked to an earlier iteration of the thread but there’s more.
- System with a GNU userland and a BSD kernel.
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC2 is out.
- Making my pkg.conf configuration version independent.
- Valuable News – 2022/04/04.
- helloSystem 13.1-RC1.
- Multiprocess support for LLDB.
- Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS. Part 1 of 4.
- Writing a NetBSD kernel module. (via)
- TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor. (via)
- Bill Jolitz has passed away. (via)
BSD Now 448 and 449
448: Controlling Resource Limits and 449: Reproducible clean $HOME are both available, because I’m a slacker and didn’t link when they were published.
In Other BSDs for 2022/04/02
Mini-ZFS theme this week.
- OpenBSD Webzine #8.
- Heap Overflow in OpenBSD’s slaacd via Router Advertisement. (via several places)
- pkgsrc-2022Q1 is out.
- Nixxers is back!
- Need Help installing favorite game Trek73. Followup.
- Does swap still matter? A long thread.
- Toolchains adventures – Q1 2022.
- ZFS Compatibility.
- Should I Upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?
- Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS.
- Meet my two heroes from Unix world: Marshal Kirk and Eric Allman! (via)
- FreeBSD/EC2: What I’ve been up to.
- Valuable News – 2022/03/21 and 2022/03/28.
- Keep your OpenBSD system cool with obsdfreqd.
- Add support for XBox One gamecontroller.
- HardenedBSD March 2022 Status Report.
- paprok gets CDE running on NetBSD. Chunky chunky.
In Other BSDs for 2022/03/26
Note the new-to-me book news in there.
- The NetBSD Foundation is a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2022.
- FreeBSD 13.1 beta2 is out.
- Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD.
- OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems.
- Testing parallel forwarding.
- NetBSD is in Google Summer of Code 2022.
- LibreSSL 3.5.1 development branch as well as 3.4.3 (stable) and 3.3.6 released.
iwx(4)gains 11ac 80MHz channel support.- Yet Another New Book: “Letters to ed(1)”. From the FreeBSD Journal Letters Column.
- New Sponsorships Open, and More Crowdfunding. For OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. There’s some interesting notes on Kickstarter in there too.
- EuroBSDCon 2022 CFP is open.
- an open source git server written in Elixir that works on OpenBSD. (via)
- NetBSD Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8). (via)
BSD Now and Then: 446 and 447
Episode 447, “Path to BSD” is up now, as is 446, “Debugging ioctl problems“. 446 was up last week but I missed my change to link to it. Check the Tadpole link if you have not; those are a weird chunk of history.
In Other BSDs for 2022/03/19
You will notice some clustering of links; my list filled up fast.
- Where
cutcomes into Unix (and a bit on the history ofawk) - Why no Unix error device? and There is a Unix error device.
- FreeBSD 13.1-beta available.
- FreeBSD 2021 Q4 status report.
- Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence.
- ZFS Boot Environments Revolutions.
- Valuable News – 2022/03/14.
- My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting.
- Retina, HiDPI scaling in KDE Plasma.
- Committing dotfiles and other essentials. I already copy .vimrc around too much.
helloSystem 0.6.0 is out.As is the experimental version. 0.7.0 is most recent.- Work with FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code.
- FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
- FreeBSD on the CubieBoard2.