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2021/07/29

BSD New 413: BSD/Linux Chimera

This week’s BSD Now talks about some pro-BSD ideas, which may or may not include the idea of Linux with a BSD userland. I find it slightly upsetting.

2021/07/242021/07/20

In Other BSDs for 2021/07/24

No theme this week; just catching up with all the links I didn’t get to last week.

Valuable News – 2021/07/19.
VirtualBox with FreeBSD + KDE. VM-to-desktop.
Also VirtualBox guest additions in FreeBSD for that previous link.
Managing Boot Environments. (ZFS)
FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls.
FreeBSD KGDB support in LLDB. A description of the work to do, not the end result.
A Look at Profiling: FreeBSD Sort.
dhcpleased(8) and resolvd(8) enabled in base, replacing dhclient(8). I am going to read that as “dhc pleased” no matter what I do.
Minecraft on BSD notes.
“$ git sync murder” is out, so: how many books have I written? The answer is via SNMP, believe it or not. (And includes some BSD volumes so I link it here.)
My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop. Notable for the case, and for linking to a USB Thinkpad keyboard, something I’ve always wanted.
Making two Unix permissions mistakes in one.

2021/07/22

BSD Now 412: Command-line secrets

This week’s BSD Now covers different topics – you may think from the headline it’s a “tips and tricks” link, but no, it’s about confidential info.

2021/07/212021/07/20

NVMM lands in DragonFly

Aaron LI’s added NVMM, hardware acceleration for virtual machines, to DragonFly.

The version of qemu in dports is not set up to support this, yet. Until then, you can download a prebuilt version.

Since NVMM originated on NetBSD, the NetBSD documentation page for it describes how to use it quite well. There’s a man page in DragonFly for it too, of course. There’s even basic machines to try.

2021/07/202021/07/13

ChiBUG meeting tonight

ChiBUG meeting is at 6 PM at the normal place, which means you should go if you are near, and vaccinated.

2021/07/172021/07/14

In Other BSDs for 2021/07/17

More BUG meetings are happening, which is great.

Next ChiBUG meeting: in person, July 20th. I’ll post a reminder.
The slides from the most recent NYCBUG meeting.
The historical significance of DEC and the PDP-7, -8, -11 & VAX. The article itself is not about BSD, specifically, but some of the comments at the source link are.
A Glimpse of the Canon object.station 41. A NeXT iteration I didn’t know about. (via)
Meet the Summer 2021 [FreeBSD] Foundation Interns.
Status of Online Conference Software on FreeBSD.
Valuable News – 2021/07/05 and 2021/07/12.
Using youtube-dl on FreeBSD. Or any BSD, probably.
Repairing Akonadi on FreeBSD.
Filtering spam using Rspamd and OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD.
NetBSD/Desktop: Scalable Workstation Systems. Old but interesting. (via)
[Semibug] RAID 0 or 1 for OpenBSD. Follow the thread for more info.
Total Mastery, the bundle. Includes multiple FreeBSD Mastery books.

2021/07/15

BSD Now 411: FreeBSD Deep Dive

This week’s BSD Now goes into structure and progress, judging from the titles on display. Also, I did not link last week’s “410: OpenBSD Consumer Gateway” because I was on the road – look at it too if you haven’t yet.

2021/07/132021/07/12

ndis removed from DragonFly

ndis(4) is removed from DragonFly; it’s probably been years since it was applicable to any hardware. I don’t think it will affect anyone – but it’s an interesting tool from a historical perspective; for a while it was possible to use Windows XP drivers to create a BSD network driver, effectively.