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2021/04/172021/04/16

In Other BSDs for 2021/04/17

I linked to a story about Xenix, which might be a step too far.

Bandwidth limiting on OpenBSD 6.8.
Filtering TCP connections by operating system on OpenBSD.
UFS Boot Environments for ARM.
OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC). Note date, but there are real issues too. (via)
Dissecting the UNIX v6 Allocator. Pre-BSD, I guess. (via)
A bit of XENIX history (2014). (via)
LLDB support for fork(2) and vfork(2), part 3.
Valuable News – 2021/04/11.
FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is out.
My Dog’s Garage Runs OpenBSD. Nicely in-depth.
pfSense Plus 21.02.2-RELEASE and pfSense CE 2.5.1-RELEASE Now Available.
TrueNAS 12.0-U3 released; replaces the FreeNAS series.
Michael Wl Lucas’s Penguicon 2021 schedule.

BSD Now 398: Coordinated Mars Time

Along with the normal news summaries, the latest BSD Now offers a bounty to the first person implementing Coordinated Mars Time; a worthy idea.

2021/04/132021/04/08

ChiBUG online tonight

ChiBUG will be meeting today at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. Go, even if you aren’t near.

2021/04/102021/04/09

In Other BSDs for 2021/04/10

I’m hitting all the unixes.

Atari Heavy Sixer. Not BSD, System V, but also note the post date.
Knuth is still working on TeX. (via)
Managing Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on FreeBSD. (via)
XScreenSaver 6.00 out now. Haven’t seen it in dports yet.
I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD.
ChiBUG will be meeting on April 13th at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. I’ll post a reminder, of course.
The pubnix history project. (via–via)
Teach yourself Plan9 via SDF boot camp! Also why not get a mug? (via)
i386 on FreeBSD 13 will be Tier 2, a reminder and look back.
FreeBSD’s ports migration to git and its impact on HardenedBSD.
Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi.
Steam on FreeBSD.
Valuable News – 2021/04/05.
Interview with Abhinav Upadhyay, NetBSD contributor and machine learning software developer. (via)
The state of toolchains in NetBSD.

BSD Now 397: Fresh BSD 2021

This week’s BSD Now covers the usual mix of articles – I see some Gemini sneaking in! – and mentions something I should have; the revamp of FreshBSD.

2021/04/072021/03/03

HardenedBSD at NYCBUG, tonight

HardenedBSD 2021 “State of the Hardened Union”, presented by Shawn Webb, happening at NYCBUG at 6:45 tonight. See the announcement for how to get the invite.

2021/04/032021/04/02

In Other BSDs for 2021/04/03

Well, I made up for last week’s short list.

What tool you use to read IPMI sensor information can matter. Not directly BSD, but the tools described are in ports.
The origin of POSIX. The name, not the standard. TWAIN has the best pseudo-origin. (via)
Does the old Unix still exist, besides its descendants? Yes, and so does Theseus’s ship.
Related: Plan 9 is now open source, along with Inferno. Technically a later version of Unix – plus Inferno can run on BSD. (via)
NetBSD Bounties for xhci features scatter-gather, suspend/resume. (via)
HardenedBSD March 2021 Status Report.
GSoC Reports: Make system(3), popen(3) and popenve(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally (Final report).
KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2.
Hitting donation milestone, financial report for 2020.
How to split a file into small parts.
UFS Boot Environments.
What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer?
Nginx as a TCP/UDP relay. On OpenBSD.
pkgsrc-2021Q1 branch announcement.
FVWM(3) and the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop. (via)
Valuable News – 2021/03/29.
OPNsense 21.1.4 released.
Only Footnotes. But some of them are BSD footnotes!

Semi-BSD-related: One of my 3 workplaces needs a Software Team Lead. (scroll down) The main product is FreeBSD-based, though this team position does not directly work with it.

BSD Now 396: License to thrill

This week’s BSD Now is the usual roundup of news; FreeBSD-heavy, including some of the future planning for the project.

2021/03/272021/03/27

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/27

Quiet, this week.

GNU really is a different animal.
Paired links: Port of the week: diffoscope and Shamir’s secret sharing.
Enable multi-factor authentication on OpenBSD.
A working D compiler on OpenBSD.
mport package manager.
Valuable News – 2021/03/22.
Easy text transmission from computer to smartphone. I didn’t know about KDE Connect.
ohmyksh, for OpenBSD’s ksh.

BSD Now 395: Tracing ARM’s history

BSD Now has the usual roundup of news this week, and leads with an article about FreeBSD and ARM – useful for the BSD content, but also interesting cause it has a nice summary of how ARM designs came to be so important.

2021/03/202021/03/22

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/20

Solene is publishing faster than I can link!

EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers open.
Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V Final Report. (PDF, via)
FreeBSD 13.0: Full Desktop Experience. (via)
Pine 64: March Update. Nominally BSD related. (via)
Creating ports for BSD distributions. (via)
Wayland on FreeBSD.
Top 12 best opensource games available on OpenBSD.
Using pkgsrc on OpenBSD.
Port of the week[s]: catgirl irc client and pmenu.
Valuable News – 2021/03/15.

2021/03/182021/03/19

BSD Now 394: FreeBSD on Mars

There’s BSD on Mars now, or that’s what the latest BSD Now tells me.

2021/03/172021/03/17

FreeBSD Office Hours tonight

FreeBSD Office Hours are happening tonight, 18:00 UTC. Go, if you’re online.

Update: rescheduled to sometime in the future.

2021/03/132021/03/11

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/13

Literally tabs from my browser in order, here.

“TLS Mastery” pre-order on my web store. Get the BSD cover of course.
Quick-publishing of poudriere packages.
Implement a «Command not found» handler in OpenBSD.
DIY OpenBSD router advice.
OPNsense 21.1.3 released.
Valuable News – 2021/03/08.
Easy spamAssassin with OpenSMTPD.
The many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2.
FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available.
NomadBSD 1.4 released.
My new FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390. Lots of detail here if you are looking at a BSD laptop.
GlusterFS 8 on FreeBSD 13.
FOSSASIA starts today.

BSD Now 393: ZFS dRAID

I’d hope that a name like dRAID meant it was a DragonFly system, but no, as this BSD Now episode mentions it as a ZFS technology. Plus the normal news and a tool called ‘just’. Unfortunately ju.st is taken.

2021/03/082021/03/08

ChiBUG meeting, tomorrow night

ChiBUG’s having a virtual meeting tomorrow night. Register now, especially if you want to hear what Paul Vixie has to say. (You should)

2021/03/062021/03/05

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/06

Whoops – I managed to somehow not put the correct publish date on this when I started filling it out. Hopefully it reappears in people’s feeds again. especially cause I did some hardcore link/tab/RSS cleanouts this week.

HardenedBSD 2021 State of the Hardened Union, April 7th, NYCBUG.
TrueNAS 12.0-u2.1 released.
Old USENIX pictures.
Valuable News – 2021/03/01.
OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Fuloong. The return of MIPS, which I liked.
OPNsense 21.1.2 released.
Use innoextract to get game files from a GOG installer.
FreshBSD relaunched. (via)
OpenBSD – make sure wsconsctl is in sync with the kernel.
MidnightBSD 2.0.5 released.
Bastille on MidnightBSD.
Related: HardenedBSD February 2021 Status Report.
A comparison between mports and FreeBSD ports.
LLDB: FreeBSD Legacy Process Plugin Removed.
Multi-OS PXE-booting from FreeBSD 12: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.
dhcpleased(8) – DHCP client daemon. I’m going to read “please” in that every time.
resolvd(8) – daemon to handle nameserver configuration.
Introducing veb(4) – a new Virtual Ethernet Bridge.
OpenBSD booting multi-user on Apple M1.
Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id.
bhyve for Calamares Development.
Port of the week: checkrestart.

BSD Now 392: macOS inspired Desktop

This week’s BSD Now is almost all FreeBSD-related, with mention of something I haven’t investigated enough yet: helloSystem.

2021/03/032021/02/27

NYCBUG: Gaming on OpenBSD: Pearls, Pitfalls, Paranoia

NYCBUG’s on Zoom, tonight at 18:45 eastern.

2021/02/272021/02/27

In Other BSDs for 2021/02/27

I’ll post reminders day-of for the BUG meetings.

XScreenSaver version 6 beta 1. Still need BSD beta testers.
The next FreeBSD Office Hours is March 17th.
Related though not BSD: Open source projects should run office hours.
FreeBSD wall display computer. Argh, no RSS feed at that site.
ChiBUG, virtual meeting March 17th, with Paul Vixie.
Port of the week: shapez.io – a libre factory game.
Any MMOs I can play on openbsd?
Upgrade FreeBSD with ZFS Boot Environments.
Valuable News – 2021/02/22.
Next NYC*Bug: March 3rd Gaming on OpenBSD: Pearls, Pitfalls, Paranoia.
pfSense: Obscure Bugs and Code Wizards.
From Clean & Green Mockup to OpenBSD cwm(1) desktop.