It’s on Jitsi, so anyone can reach it. Tonight, 7 PM eastern.
This week’s BSD Now talks about a lot of stuff as always, but also notes a time-dependent item: a bhyve presentation coming up on July 12th.
Ian Grindley has created a BSD theme for rEFInd that covers all the BSDs – including DragonFly.
SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is tonight, and it’s all about OpenSSH, with Michael W. Lucas presenting. He literally wrote the book on it.
More links this week to make up for last week’s short haul.
- Implementing non-stop protocol compatibility in LLDB.
- OpenBSD folklore and share/misc/airport.
- FreeBSD first status report 2022, talking about portconfig.
- OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64. (via)
- FreeBSD Foundation work in the 13.1 release.
- Please read this before upgrading to 22.06.07. (GhostBSD)
- HardenedBSD May 2022 Status Report.
- Give WindowMaker a macos Mojave look.
- OpenLDAP update. (OpenBSD)
- Vim colour scheme changes. (also OpenBSD)
- Minecraft server on OpenBSD. (via)
- Valuable News for 5/30, 6/6, and 6/13.
- OPNsense 22.1.8 and OPNsense Business Edition 22.4.1 released.
- OpenIKED 7.1 released.
This week’s BSD Now is depressingly honest in the title; no puns. Along with the normal links, there’s a Beastie Bit this week for Networks From Scratch.
The Hamilton (Canada) BSD user group will meet through Jitsi tomorrow, June 14th, 4:00 PM Eastern. I’m preposting this based on a SEMIBUG mention.
A bit short cause I ran out of time.
- qorg’s experiences with OpenBSD. (via)
- The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. (via)
- Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset. (via)
- NetBSD and Friends :MCH2022. (via)
- Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?
- PiDP-11: RECREATING THE PDP-11/70. Technically proto-BSD? I’ve linked to other stories about this hardware.
This week’s BSD Now has the usual news, plus a link I think everyone can use on interpreting traceroute / mtr output.
The St. Louis Unix Users Group monthly meeting is tonight at 6:30 Central time, talking about rsnapshot and LDAP. It’s online, so you can attend even if you are not near.
The Nixers link will keep you busy for a while if this isn’t enough here.
- FreeBSD on the Graviton 3.
- The UNIX-HATERS HANDBOOK is now available in the Kindle Store. (via)
- A quick look at console file managers.
- The Nixers Newsletter has been running again. I’ve been lax in linking to recent weekly issues, but they usually have some BSD content and the links are all gold.
- reversing an openbsd kernel syspatch.
- Adventures with Solaris 11.4 CBE, pkgsrc and NVMM. (via)
- Compiling the NetBSD kernel as a benchmark. (via)
- Time Machine like Backups on OpenBSD. (via)
- Installing pfSense 2.6 on ZimaBoard. (via)
This week’s BSD Now talks about NetBSD and ZFS, among other things. I’ll point out an interesting link in the Beastie Bits, a way of exploring /usr/games.
I had a lot of links built up for this; finished early.
- Valuable News – 2022/05/23.
- deprecation of ${rcexec} in rc.d scripts.
- Announcing Google Summer of Code 2022 projects. (NetBSD)
- Welcome FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Participants.
- Customizing NetBSD boot banners.
- experimental-13.1-RELEASE for helloSystem.
- NFS Server Inside FreeBSD VNET Jail.
- Using a game engine to write a graphical interface to the OpenBSD package manager.
- Blue Systems Farewell.
- LibreSSL updated to 3.5.3.
- Candlelit Console patch set to the framebuffer console.
- Game Dev on (not for) BSD. Some good resource descriptions here.
This week’s BSD Now talks about the newest FreeBSD release, along with the upcoming NetBSD 10 series, among other things.
The NetBSD Annual General Meeting is today.
Releases week.
- Valuable News – 2022/05/16.
- ZFS on SMR Drives.
- Evaluating FreeBSD CURRENT for Production Use.
- OpenBSD on Partaker H2 I5 1135G7.
- TrueNAS 13.
- OPNsense 22.1.7 released.
- FreeBSD 13.1 is out.
- pkg_add(1) speedup.
- Parallel IP forwarding activated.
- Playstation/NetBSD security issue. (via)
- Own Your Calendar & Contacts With OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android. (via)
- Managing OpenBSD installed packages declaratively.
- Daily Buggle.
This week’s BSD Now has a title taken from the last Beastie Bits link – which is worth following.
It rhymes if you say it out loud. Jason Tubnor will present at 7 PM tonight (Detroit local time) on installing and configuring Xfce and KDE on FreeBSD.
“BSD” is in almost every line as a title. Maybe not a surprise, but visually noticeable.
- Paying a visit to planet BSD. (via)
- Branching for NetBSD 10. (via)
- Brainstorming Entropy for NetBSD. (via)
- How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD.
- compiling an openbsd kernel 50% faster.
- New FreeBSD How-To: Networking Basics: WiFi and Bluetooth.
- where’s all the code?
- May 17th 7 PM Detroit, MI time, Jason Tubnor will present on installing and configuring Xfce and KDE on FreeBSD.
- May 21: NetBSD Annual General Meeting. That’s 1 week from now.
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC6 available.
- Valuable News – 2022/05/10.
- How to contribute to the OpenBSD project.
- VM (VM ( … This is weird/dangerous.
I can’t help but think of this as the 1# episode of BSD Now; tell me if you get why. Anyway, there’s lots of OpenBSD in this week’s BSD Now.