CHIBUG’s monthly meeting is in-person at the usual place tonight at 6.
UPDATE: It’s been rescheduled for the 15th.
Mini-theme: releases.
- Valuable News – 2022/02/28.
- ChiBUG, meeting March 8th at 6 PM in-person. Go if you are near.
- OpenBSD Webzine issue 7.
- Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu.
- multimc failed to allocate memory.
- Milky Way v0.4 release.
- Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3 Part 1: Introduction. (via)
- OPNsense 21.7.8, 21.10.3 Business Edition, and 22.1.1 released.
- OpenSSH updated to 8.9.
- LibreSSL 3.5.0 development branch released.
- FreeBSD 12.2 end-of-life.
- FreeBSD Foundation is looking for proposals.
This week’s BSD Now is all history-linked material, which is totally fine by me.
Software releses is the mini-theme, I guess.
- The important things about Unix init systems aren’t booting the system.
- The history (sort of) of service management in Unix, related to previous.
- OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for UNIX systems. (via)
- What’s Ahead for FreeBSD and the Foundation in 2022.
- The FreeBSD Boot Process. I like that Klara Systems just keeps publishing articles.
- NFS Shares With ZFS.
- Valuable News – 2022/02/21.
- Packaging CopperSpice.
- [OpenBSD]-current has moved to 7.1-beta.
- Recent developments in OpenBSD, 2022-02-21 summary.
BSD Now this week leads with a link to the Quora article about Mac OS X’s journey to UNIX certification, which you should read if you have not already. There’s more links of course, including one on getting streaming commercial media playing on FreeBSD.
No theme this week other than of course BSD.
- Sensors Information on FreeBSD.
- pkgsrc-2021Q4 is out.
- Valuable News – 2022/02/14.
- New ‘Reckless guide to OpenBSD’ published. Weekly installments.
- Charity Auction: DNSSEC Mastery proof for Black Girls Code. Note the daemon on the cover.
- My Journey from macOS to FreeBSD. (via)
- Debugging an Ioctl Problem on OpenBSD. (via)
- pfSense Plus version 22.01 and pfSense CE version 2.6.0 Software are Now Available. (via)
- Keeping old Unix/Linux up-to-date with pkgsrc. (via)
- The complete idiot’s guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro. (via)
This will happen before the normal In Other BSDs post, so I am posting it now: there’s a GhostBSD virtual meetup happening tonight.
This week’s BSD Now talks about a reoccurring topic for me: how UNIX happened. It links to that Kernighan talk that you should watch, too.
I realize my title is a little bit buffalo buffalo buffalo, but it makes sense: getopt(3) now has a double colon option to indicate an optional argument. I link to it because I like seeing the length of the trip to DragonFly. It started as a GNU option, then showed up in NetBSD, brought to FreeBSD, and now I’m posting about it.
SEMIBUG’s meeting tonight has Susan Hurst presenting on database implementation, via Jitsi. 7 PM Michigan time.
No mini-theme.
- Mail Server Hosting on OpenBSD. (via)
- Harmful things. Linked for #2. (via)
- ultima online.
- quBSD. “jails/bhyve implementation of a Qubes-inspired containerization schema” (via)
- RAID-Z Expansion Feature for ZFS In the Home Stretch.
- UNIX: On the Path to BSD.
- Modern inetd in FreeBSD.
- FreeBSD and Alternative Inits.
- Books About FreeBSD.
- Valuable News – 2022/02/07.
- XFCE Cupertino Way.
I missed posting about BSD Now last week, so if you didn’t check either: BSD Now 440: BSD Inside Zone and BSD Now 441: Migration to BSD. Lots of links in both to follow.
Note the first three items are events with deadlines happening now.
- There’s a NetBSD chat happening online this morning – in a few moments.
- Noting again: BSDCan 2022 is going to be online, and the CFP closes Monday.
- FOSDEM 2022 is happening today and tomorrow, and there’s several BSD events as usual. It’s online so you can get there.
- What a FreeBSD/KDE user misses on macOS.
- The reason Unix has the argv[0] issue (and API).
- Why we’re migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD. (via)
- OPNSense 22.1 released.
- Smallest desktop of the day with BSD: Raspberry Pi 400.
- Related: r/Hardware_for_BSD.
- Valuable News – 2022/01/31.
- d-ptr pitfalls.
- HardenedBSD January 2022 Status Report.
- FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s.
- Can’t run Stardew Valley on OpenBSD.
BSDCan 2022 is now going to be online, which also means the CFP has been extended so any last-minute-I’ll-go-now-that-its-virtual people can get their proposals in.
(Posting now because waiting for the normal In Other BSDs post will only give you 48 hours of prep time for a proposal.)
Watch that Kernighan video; he is what a historian would call a primary source.
- The Birth of UNIX.
- “The early days of Unix at Bell Labs” – Brian Kernighan (LCA 2022 Online). History from a person who made it. (via)
- Agent constraints in OpenSSH, a good idea. As the source link comments, it’ll appear in BSD right away, Linux in… years from now.
- Twincat/BSD. BSD gets used in a lot of places that people don’t know about.
- BastilleBSD is running a user survey. (via)
- 2021 Top DiscoverBSD and BSDSec articles.
- 2021 FreeBSD Foundation Impact Report.
- FreeBSD Periodic Scripts.
- How not to execve().
- Valuable News – 2022/01/24.
- OPNsense 21.7.7 released. Apparently there is a business edition now?
- Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD.
The NYCBUG lunch is today, 1-2 Eastern.
There’s no pun in the title; this week’s BSD Now really links to a browser implementation of UNIX-ish resources. Is it POSIX? Not quite. Is it UNIX? No. Is it Linux? Probably using that as a reference, so it’s a copy of a copy. Still, interesting. There’s other articles too; don’t be distracted by my digression.
NYCBUG is having another lunch meeting online, this Friday, 1-2 Eastern time. RSVP on the NYCBUG talk@ list if you are going.
The UNIX compliance link is worth reading all the way through; it is a chunk of history I did not know at all.
- What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified? Answered by the guy that led it at Apple. Note the relatively short time needed to do the same for FreeBSD. (via)
- The OpenBSD BASED Challenge Day 6 and Day 7.
- LibBSDDialog.
- GhostBSD 22.01.12 ISO is now available.
- Valuable News – 2022/01/17.
- Wine 7 is released. FreeBSD is the only BSD for it I think. (via)
- Suyimazu – Wine-based Game Launcher for FreeBSD. (via)
- FreeBSD 13.0 Base Jails With ZFS and VNET. (via)
- Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD.
- LLDB FreeBSD kernel debugging support summary.
- Why the FreeBSD Desktop and my Linux Rant.
- OpenBSD on the PinePhone. (via)
- BSD based solutions virtualisation/clustering of resources for VMs.
- LibreSSL update.
I only just read about it, so if you hurry you can get into the happening-now GhostBSD meetup on Jitsi.