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2020/10/242020/10/22

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/24

It’s apparently release week?

Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via)
BSDCan 2021 is canceled.
NetBSD 9.1 released.
OpenBSD 6.8 Released.
REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer.
TrueNAS 12.0 released.
Valuable News – 2020/10/19.
FreeBSD Q3 2020 report.
FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD.
how to play celeste with sound—sort of. AKA getting fmod to play on a BSD.
People asking about FreeBSD licencing.
OpenBSD 6.8 introduces a new hardware database client program.
Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!

2020/10/22

BSD Now 373: Kyle Evans Interview

This is the most straightforwardly-named BSD Now in a while: it’s an interview of Kyle Evans talking about his projects in FreeBSD.

2020/10/172020/10/16

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/17

This list of links runs in the same order of the BSD RSS feeds in my reader. What a coincidence!

pkgsrc-2020Q3 released.
The FreeBSD Town Hall was Wednesday and I didn’t post about it in time, but previous Town Halls are available.
Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD.
Valuable News – 2020/10/12.
OpenBSD Laptop. (via)
Cryptographic Signing using ssh-keygen(1) with a FIDO Authenticator.
RETGUARD for powerpc and powerpc64 added to -current.
How to open source: going from NetBSD to Linux.
Michael W. Lucas is having a book sale.

2020/10/15

BSD Now 372: Slow SSD scrubs

This week’s BSD Now has the usual roundup, with I think the highlight being a discussion of how SSDs can sometimes still not be fast enough for a ZFS scrub, depending on how it’s scheduled.

2020/10/13

ChiBUG meeting, now

The ChiBUG monthly meeting has gone virtual, so go now if you are interested. The thread about it also includes some notes on how to connect under BSD that may be useful beyond this immediate event.

2020/10/12

sh as cross-pollination tool

I always thought of cross-pollination – sharing of code between BSDs – as a good thing. This seems like the most basic way to do that: same base sh.

2020/10/102020/10/08

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/10

I should have set this to post at 10:10AM GMT.

OpenBSD Amsterdam Podcast interview. (via)
duf – a user friendly alternative to df. Works on BSD. (via)
Old School Disk Partitioning. (via)
Why the Unix newgrp command exists (sort of),
How the Unix newgrp command behaved back in V7 Unix, and People still use newgrp (to my surprise), touching BSD history.
FreeBSD laptop advice.
The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 5).
Valuable News – 2020/10/05.
FreeBSD 12.2-RC1 Available.
How to Recover From a BIOS Upgrade. Putting your boot sector back.
FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 2 Primer for Users.
fnaify 3.0 released.

2020/10/08

BSD Now 371: Wildcards running wild

This week’s BSD Now talks about ZFS, TrueNAS, IPC, wildcards, and the UNIX family tree, for a mix of the old and new.

2020/10/032020/09/30

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/03

No theme, but lots to read.

Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current. (via)
OpenBSD on Desktop (Part I) and OpenBSD on Desktop (Part II). (via and via)
FreeBSD Journal 2020/07-08 – Benchmarking/Tuning. I keep missing the new issues; no RSS feed. (via)
FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 Available.
“Even if you’ve never heard of OpenSSH, you’ve also benefited from it.“
Wayland on NetBSD – trials and tribulations.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] RumpKernel Syscall Fuzzing.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Curses Library Automated Testing.
About pipelining OpenBSD ports contributions.
Ingo announces pta (Plain Text Accounting). Only tangentially BSD, but it’s interesting how many text-only accounting programs there are.
k2k20 hackathon report: Rafael Sadowski on KDE and other packages progress.
Valuable News – 2020/09/28.
ESET file server antivirus scanner on MidnightBSD.

2020/10/01

BSD Now 370: Testing shutdown

This week’s BSD Now has FuryBSD, FreeBSD, and LDAP as topics, and I’m describing it that way because I feel like writing as many capital letters as possible.