No interview in this week’s BSDNow, but there’s a good run through recent BSD news, including some talk about a “Aeronix” machine project, which led me to some other interesting links.
In Other BSDs for 2017/06/17
All found-this-week links, now.
- KARL – kernel address randomized link. (via)
- g4u (Ghost for Unix) 2.6, a venerable imaging tool, released.
- Native Command Queuing – merging and testing. (NetBSD)
- New TrueNAS x10, a BSD-based storage product.
- secmodel sandbox : An application sandbox for NetBSD (draft). (via)
- FreeBSD 11.1-BETA is out.
- FreeNAS 11.0 is out. (via)
- Running OpenBSD on Azure.
- Newbie from Linux – have a Lenovo Ideapad – best BSD?
- d2k17 Hackathon Report: Florian Obser on slaacd(8).
- d2k17 Hackathon Report: Antoine Jacoutot on rc.d, syspatch, and more.
- The NetBSD repo and moving to Git. (via)
- Oil changes, safety recalls, and software patches.
BSDNow 198: You can’t handle the libtruth
BSDNow 198 is now available, almost all about the just-finished BSDCan.
In Other BSDs for 2017/06/10
I think I’ve finally caught up on my BSD link backlog.
- d2k17 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on XS_NO_CCB removal and dhclient link detection.
- d2k17 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on USB audio, WiFi Progress.
- NCIS: FreeBSD.
- UbuntuBSD is now DEAD!
- FreeBSD Core Team member: “[installer] might be the only part of OpenBSD that is friendly”
- Become FreeBSD User: Find Useful Tools.
- OPNsense 17.1.8 released.
- openbsd changes of note 623.
- FreeNAS newbie needing help linking to Active Directory.
- PKGSRC at The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. (via)
- Measuring the weight of an electron. (via)
- BSDCan 2017 Auction Swag.
- pkgsrcCon 2017 in London. (via)
- NetBSD 8.0 release process underway.
- Reading OpenBSD source code daily. (via)
- Free getopt. It’s BSD history, though nobody explicitly says it. (via)
BSDNow 197: Relaying the good news
Slightly earlier than normal because of the magic of prerecording, BSDNow 197 is up and has an interview with Michael W. Lucas about his books. (I’m hoping for interviews from BSDCan next week.)
In Other BSDs for 2017/06/03
Even more overflow, pushing my pre-published posts forward.
- “Relayd and Httpd Mastery,” both the good and the bad.
- OpenBSD on the Xiaomi Mi Air 12.5″. (via)
- iXsystems’ TrueNAS Receives Veeam Backup Certification.
- What does this joke mean? Well, I get it.
- experiments with prepledge.
- pFSense / VLAN – Security.
- EuroBSDcon 2017 Talks & Schedule published (via)
- network transparent audio with sndiod and vmd
- FreeBSD ( -current) now has 64bit inodes.
- Docker on OpenBSD 6.1. (via)
- Fixing FreeBSD Networking on Digital Ocean. (via)
- Thinkpad X230 / NetBSD.
- Introducing RunBSD.info. And here’s the site.
- Pfsense and edge router combo?
- Netgate now offers global support. i.e. pfSense.
BSDNow 196: PostGreZFS
As BSDNow closes in on their double-century episode, this week does not have an interview but does dive into a number of topics.
In Other BSDs for 2017/05/27
A good chunk of this is overflow from last week.
- The iXSystems Kansas Linux Fest report. I’d like to see the slides they used.
- PKGSRC at The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. (via)
- Best free alternative to pfSense?
- OpenBSD laptop.
- Is there a more clear PacBSD installation guide?
- GhostBSD 11 ALPHA having issues with MATE Desktop.
- documentation is thoroughly hard.
- Logical Domains on SunFire T2000 with OpenBSD/sparc64. (via)
- Are there are BSD projects similar to Googles Fuchsia OS?
- Any interest in porting TFS (the new ZFS clone in Rust) to BSDs? The most fun response.
- Can’t get Thinkpad t450s trackpoint working on OpenBSD.
- openbsd changes of note 622.
- Devuan Jessie 1.0 released. It’s Linux, but important here because it’s without systemd. (via)
- Support for Controller Area Networks (CAN) in NetBSD.
- KnoxBUG meeting on May 30th. Sam Fourman talking about FreeNAS.
garbage[40]: Reunion
Hey, there’s a new garbage!
BSDNow 195: I don’t WannaCry
No interview in this week’s BSDNow, but lots of news topics including a note about how easy it is to mitigate WannaCry problems using BSD technologies. Also of potential interest, it links to an in-depth look at how traffic shaping in pfSense was able to significantly improve a home internet connection, from someone whose job is to think about that sort of thing.
In Other BSDs for 2017/05/20
There’s been enough this week I’ve already started next week’s BSD entry.
- Installing OpenBSD 6.1 on your laptop is really hard (not). (via)
- Switching to OpenBSD. (via)
- FreeBSD on 11? MacBook Air 5,1 (mid-2012). 2012 is the hardware, not the post date. (via)
- Falling in love with NixOS. Not on BSD, but linked because the source has comments contrasting it with BSD packaging systems.
- openbsd changes of note 621.
- 2017Q1 FreeBSD status report.
- No sound with NetBSD in VMware.
- Re-Writing BSD 4.4 Shell Commands: cat. (via)
- A recap of the April KnoxBUG meeting.
- Promoting FreeBSD at Events. (via)
- NetBSD maintainer in the QEMU project. (via)
- OPNsense 17.1.7 released.
BSDNow 194: Daemonic Plans
This week’s BSDNow covers different topics, with a specific link about a centrally managed Bhyve – a new feature to me. No interview this week, but don’t let that stop you from the full range of discussion.
In Other BSDs for 2017/05/13
A good topic range this week.
- Why I love OpenBSD. (via)
- A plan for open source software maintainers. (via)
- Unix Architecture Evolution Diagrams. 1972 Research Unix and FreeBSD, compared. (via)
- Getting Michael W. Lucas to speak at your (possibly BSD) event.
- 4 Things About TrueNAS Replication Your Boss Wants To Know. Sounds clickbaity, but does actually describe TrueNAS usage.
- OPNsense 17.1.6 released.
- Health Tips for Unix Systems.
- OpenBSD and You, the slides. (via)
- gqrx on freebsd.
- I did not know there was a Samba conference.
- OpenBSD Community Goes Gold.
BSDNow 193: Fire up the 802.11 AC
This week’s BSDNow has no interview, but it hops through a banquet of different operating system activities – wireless, routing, changing systems, etc. You will surely find something to pique your interest.
In Other BSDs for 2017/05/06
All the text in the links lined up this week, which is mysteriously satisfying.
- PfSense 2.5 and AES-NI. (via)
- Tab completion in OpenBSD’s ksh. (via)
- Bringing up 802.11ac on FreeBSD.
- Installing V8 UNIX (4.1 BSD) from tape. (via)
- OpenSSH Removes SSHv1 Support.
- Installing Gnome 3 extensions freebsd11
- OpenBSD vmm hypervisor: Part 2. (via)
- pfSense 2.3.4 RELEASE Now Available!
- Official OpenBSD 6.1 CD – There’s only One!
- Related: Errata and (First) Binary Patches Announced.
- New synchronization mechanism – localcount(9). (via)
- Digging into BSD’s choice of Unix group for new directories and files.
- Announcing NetBSD and the Google Summer of Code Projects 2017.
BSDNow 192: SSHv1 Be Gone
BSDNow 192 is up, and has the normal news summary, plus an interview of Patrick M. Hausen.
NYCBUG: Building Open Source Random Number Generators
The next NYCBUG meeting is May 3rd, in about 48 hours. Rob Seward will be presenting on random number generators. The same announcement for this meeting also notes the upcoming pkgsrcCon, BSDCan, and EuroBSDCon.
In Other BSDs for 2017/04/29
It’s long article title week!
- A PDF of the IPv6 handout, from the April SemiBUG meeting, is available.
- Adventures in Time, part 1: Interfacing an Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator to a Computer Running NetBSD. (via)
- Replace the RC4 algorithm for generating in-kernel secure random numbers with Chacha20. (via)
- 9 lessons from 25 years of Linux kernel development. None of those lessons are specific to Linux; they apply to all the BSDs, for instance. (via)
- pfsense for a small ISP in both router and firewall settings?
- Rate your favorite BSD on…
- (finally) investigating how to get dynamic WDS (DWDS) working in FreeBSD!
- OPNsense 17.1.5 released.
- The many ways of running firefox on OpenBSD.
- Michael W. Lucas’s Penguicon 2017 Schedule.
- iXsystems TrueNAS Certified with Veeam Backup.
- OpenBSD 6.1 Song Released.
BSDNow 191: I Know 64 & A Bunch More
This week’s BSDNow covers a number of FreeBSD developments, Illumos network work, and an interesting in-depth discussion of the reasoning behind the transition from PC-BSD to TrueOS.
In Other BSDs for 2017/04/22
Several “how to do this” items this week, which I like.
- OpenBSD 6.1 is not a CD release. (via)
- Netflix Serving 90Gb/s+ From Single Machines Using Tuned FreeBSD. (via)
- Forcing the password gropers through a smaller hole with OpenBSD’s PF queues.
- Creating an Apple Time Capsule using FreeBSD & ZFS.
- Related: Accessing your Time Capsule when on a different subnet.
- Help me find a match -> ‘^[DFNOT].*BSD$’.
- OpenBSD-current 2017/04/19 has clang enabled for amd64 and i386. (via) (also)
- g4u 2.6beta2 has been released – Happy 18th Birthday, g4u!
- 1.3.0 Development Preview: lumina-mediaplayer.