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2018/11/102018/11/09

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/10

Aaaand I have a backlog again.

2018/11/08

BSD Now 271: Automatic Drive Tests

BSD Now 271 is up with no interview but a news summary, including EuroBSDCon and MeetBSD con reports, and an OpenBSD and Ansible item that should be interesting to most anyone, among other items.

2018/11/062018/11/02

NYCBUG meeting tomorrow

Ensuring Perl’s Viability on FreeBSD: A NYCBUG-NY.PM Collaboration is the presentation at tomorrow’s NYCBUG meeting. Going by the details, it’s covering multiple BSDs. Go, if you are near – I wish I was.

2018/11/032018/11/08

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/03

Backlog finally cleared! You have a lot of clicking to do because of that.

setuid bit removed from /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg in OpenBSD, probably because of the recent xorg elevation bug to match.
Attaching a Bluetooth keyboard to a NetBSD machine. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/10/27.
Valuable News – 2018/11/02.
commands without magic
Introducing the OpenBSD Virtualization FAQ.
The proper way to update FreeBSD jails between point releases. (via)
Configure OpenSMTPD to relay on a network.
SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-1028.
BSD vs. System V death star poster.
MeetBSD 2018: The Ultimate Hallway Track.
File versioning with rcs. Still built into all the BSDs, I think.
Halloween Sale Highlights. OpenBSD gaming.
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Tokyo/Fall. (via)
Jailing the bhyve hypervisor. (via)
Everything suffers from bashism. (via)
FOSDEM 2019 will have a BSD devroom, and now’s your chance to submit a talk proposal. Due December 10th, with the conference in February.
NetBSD LLVM Sanitizers in The Bay Area. (via)
LISA 2018 Recap. I really like that iXSystems writes up every convention trip.
FreeBSD 12 has been branched into -STABLE. (via)
GhostBSD 18.10 Release. (via)

2018/11/02

BSDNow 270: Ghostly Releases

This week’s BSDNow has a whole lot of release news – GhostBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSSH, plus plenty more. Make sure to check the Beastie Bits at the bottom of the page.

2018/10/272018/10/27

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/27

It’s a mad rush to get these all posted in time for the weekend.

Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition. Best place to buy, with ILUVMICHAEL 30% off coupon code.
Related: Auction Winners.
Ensuring Perl’s Viability on FreeBSD: A NYCBUG-NY.PM Collaboration, coming up on November 7th.
FreeBSD amd64 syscalls. (via)
“Does anyone know if parsec works on OpenBSD?“
The BSD Club discussion forum. (via)
“What are some UNIX design decisions that proved to be wrong or short sighted after all these years?“
DNS over TLS in FreeBSD 12.
libcrypto ASN.1 header removed in OpenBSD.
Show OpenSMTPD queue and force sending queued mails.
Valuable News – 2018/10/20.
FreeBSD 12 beta 1 out.
“What I learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD“. (via)
Configuring FreeBSD for Infrastructure. (via)
OPNsense 18.7.6 released.
The OpenBSD Foundation receives the first Silver contribution from a single individual.
Ohio LinuxFest 2018 Recap.
NetBSD on the RISC-V is alive. (via)
How to make routers with NetBSD’s NPF and Lua (Tokyo, Japan 2019/02/07) (via)
“TrueNAS support is pretty great“.

2018/10/24

BSDNow 269: Tiny Daemon Lib

BSDNow 269, along with convention reports and other items, covers something I never expected: System V daemons on BSD.

2018/10/202018/10/26

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/20

Well, I cleared my tab backlog, but not my RSS backlog…

NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Kagawa. (via)
OpenBSD’s unveil(). (via)
OpenBSD on the Desktop: some thoughts. (via)
Fuzzing the OpenBSD Kernel.
vmm(4) gets support for qcow2.
n2k18 Hackathon report: Ken Westerback (krw@) on disklabel(8) work, dhclient(8) progress.
New mandoc feature: -T html -O toc.
Locking OpenBSD when it’s sleeping.
SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-1009.
Tor on OpenBSD part 1 and part 2.
PIC32-RETROBSD.
Unveiling OpenBSD pflogd(8). (via)
OpenBSD on the Lenovo A485. (via)
Questions on building FreeBSD fileserver for video production.
A Unix Shell poster from 1983. Might be BSD, might not. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/10/13.
The byproducts of reading OpenBSD netcat code. (via)
Slant, an OpenBSD system monitor. (via)
OpenBSD 6.4 Released.
“OpenBSD Foundation gets a second Iridium donation from Handshake!“
BSD and home automation.
OPNSense 18.7.5 released.
Upgrading OpenBSD (on Vultr)
Upgrading OpenBSD with Ansible. (via)

2018/10/182018/10/17

BSDNow 268: Netcat Demystified

This week’s BSDNow has a lot of “You will not regret knowing this” material – ZFS performance measurement, 2FA SSH, and using Netcat in various ways.

2018/10/162018/10/16

SemiBUG meeting, tonight

SemiBUG is having the monthly meeting tonight. The presenter is Nick Holland, talking about SPECTRE mitigations in OpenBSD, and similar mechanisms. If you are near, go.

2018/10/152018/08/31

MeetBSD happening soon

Here’s your reminder: MeetBSD is happening October 19-20 in Santa Clara, CA. That’s the end of this week. Go, if you are near.

2018/10/132018/10/27

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/13

Still playing catchup with links.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD fundraisers from Michael W. Lucas.
One-liners for submitting your dmesg to NYCBUG. There’s other versions in that thread; I linked to the last described.
Configuration of OpenSMTPD to relay mails to outbound smtp server.
Let’s Try on OpenBSD: CrossCode and Stardew Valley Multiplayer.
Port for endless sky submitted to ports@. I’ve linked this game once before; it resembles Escape Velocity, which resembles Taipan, my historic favorite game.
MidnightBSD reaches 1.0. (via)
pfSense and Google Cloud Identity.
iXSystems and the Chinese hardware hack.
Process title and missing memory space.
Valuable News – 2018/10/07.
Running FreeBSD on OSX using xhyve, a port of bhyve.
AF3e ship date and next FreeBSD talk.
FreeNAS 11.2-BETA2 is available!
EuroBSDCon 2018 Recap.
September 2018 FreeBSD Foundation Update. (via)
GhostBSD tested on ThinkPad T410. (via)
What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? (via)
Login_duress: A BSD authentication module for duress passwords. Password as command. (via)
Porting Keybase to NetBSD. (via)
pkgsrc on SmartOS by Jonathan Perkin. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 17 – Automount Removable Media.
unixpackages.com – a commercial service for packaged software. It’s ports or pkg or pkgsrc, but just for Solaris 2.5+, and it costs money. Technically not a BSD, but the contrast with what we get for free is interesting.
Installing Hugo and hosting website. On OpenBSD. (via)

2018/10/112018/10/10

Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk at mug.org tonight; he may have physical copies of his new Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition available. Go, if you are near. Pro tip: If you are late but still want to catch up to Michael, look for the nearest gelato shop.

2018/10/062018/10/05

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/06

Still catching up on links.

garbage 43. The RSS feed may have changed? I should have seen this directly. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 and NetBSD sanitizers. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 travel report and obligatory pics. (via)
NetBSD curses ripoffline improvements. (via)
Installing Hugo and publishing Hugo web-pages on OpenBSD server. (via)
NetBSD8.0 on UEFI Bootloader and Windows Tablet. (via)
NetBSD/arm64 on QEMU. (via)
A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem. (via)
Old xcb libraries removed in OpenBSD.
EuroBSDCon 2018 report.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2018Q3 release. (via)
Debian on OpenBSD vmd (without qemu or another debian system) (via)
Installing Gophernicus in OpenBSD. I just like the name. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/09/29.
Polish BSD User Group, a summary. There’s a meeting soon, too.
Manage ”nice” priority of daemons on OpenBSD.

2018/10/04

There’s a KnoxBUG BSD user group meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, with the topic of “Real-world Performance Advantages of NVDIMM and NVMe: A Case Study with OpenZFS“, presented by Nick Principe. It’s happening at 6 PM, tonight. They have the prettiest logo of any BUG that I’ve seen.

2018/09/292018/09/28

In Other BSDs for 2018/09/29

EuroBSDCon 2018 unfortunately had no video, but the presentations are showing up online.

FreeBSD bhyve live migration coming soon. (thanks, subbsd)
Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD. (via)
OpenBSD netcat demystified. (via)
OpenBSD and Diving. The SCUBA kind. (via)
Spoiler alert for BSD packet filter profiling.
r/openbsd_gaming’s Game of the Year 2018 Contest: Call for Nominations.
Advances in OpenBSD packages [pdf] (via)
What’s in store for NetBSD 9.0. (via)
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Hiroshima. (via)
Deploying Anycast DNS using OpenBSD and BGP. (via)
“My FreeBSD Story“.
Display the size of installed packages ordered by size. Should work on any BSD with minor modification.
Add an new OpenBSD partition from unused space.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 3.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 16 – Configuration – Pause Any Application.
Valuable News – 2018/09/08, 2018/09/15, and 2018/09/22. There’s probably another one today.
The 2018Q3 pkgsrc freeze has started. (via)
pfSense 2.4.4 is out; 2.3.x is almost EOL. (via and via)
OPNSense ~~18.7.2~~ ~~18.7.3~~ 18.7.4 released.
FreeBSD Bootonly ISO failures PXE booting under UEFI.
Oh wait, all the EuroBSDCon 2018 OpenBSD slides are in one spot. (via)
Using acme.sh for Let’s Encrypt certificates on pkgsrc.org servers. (via)

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