It’s on Jitsi so you can totally attend. The announcement also mentions the next three months of presentations and who’s coming in to present. There’s some good (not necessarily BSD) content on the way.
Again, trying to clean out the Solene links in my RSS feed – and not succeeding!
- Following the Unix philosophy without getting left-pad. Misses the point that the Unix (and BSD) philosophy was that the base system was complete and self-hosting. (via)
- Unix philosophy without left-pad, Part 2: Minimizing dependencies with a utilities package. Here is more. (via)
- NanoPi R4S – ARM64- FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/12/13.
- Secure Containerized Browser. Similar to this on DragonFly.
- OpenZFS Native Encryption.
- BSDDialog. You probably already have this installed. (via)
- Using awk to pretty-display OpenBSD packages update changes.
- Port of the week: cozy.
- What are the VPN available on OpenBSD[?]
I feel like it’s perfect that the first article linked in this week’s BSD Now is for GhostBSD, since this is exactly the right date for that pun.
ChiBUG meets tonight, in person. RSVP and go, if you are near.
A little short this week but the holidays are catching up to me.
- The Apple Macintosh as a User Interface Agent for Unix Systems. (via)
- BSDCan 2022 is going to happen and maybe even in person. The call for papers is out.
- ChiBUG is meeting this Tuesday, the 14th.
- FreeBSD 12.3 is out.
- Valuable News – 2021/12/06.
- Using FreeBSD’s pkg audit to Investigate Known Security Issues.
- LLDB FreeBSD kernel core dump support.
- FreeBSD on Slimbook — 14 months of updates.
- TrueNAS 12.0U7 is out.
- Cross-platform package building: Pkgsrc vs. Ravenports, parts one and two.
- Active Directory not-on-Windows, might be useful.
- A bit on what Unix system pre-boot environments used to look like.
This week’s BSD Now talks about HAMBUG, the BUG meeting I don’t catch enough, plus ZFS news.
Not just release announcements this week.
- NYCBUG is down today for a significant hardware move.
- FOSDEM 2022 is going to have a BSD Devroom. It’s online, so you can submit prerecorded talks – submissions due December 31.
- Valuable News – 2021/11/29.
- GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO is now available.
- mfs: sometimes useful?
- Exploring NetBSD’s msgs(1). (via)
- Review: Netgate 6100.
- FreeBSD article writers needed. I’ve linked to Klara Systems before.
- Speaking of which, UNIX Wars – The Battle for Standards.
- New Test System. OpenBSD storage book is next apparently.
- HardenedBSD November 2021 Status Report.
- doas insults. This is a gem. (via)
- The previous link led me to 9front’s theo.
- Simple network dashboard with vnstat.
- The state of Steam on OpenBSD.
- Logitech MX Keys and MX Master on OpenBSD using Logi Bolt.
- OpenBSD Webzine #5.
I missed last week’s BSD Now – 430: OpenBSD Onwards – and there’s this week, 431: FreeBSD EC2 Agents.
Relatively quiet this week for BSD items, but it’s a holiday week in the US.
- Valuable News – 2021/11/22.
- Project Report: Add support for chdir(2) support in posix_spawn(3).
- Why V7 Unix matters so much.
- Wired XBox 360 Controller minor issue.
- Torn between getting a used thinkpad vs a new Chromebook.
- OpenZFS 3.0 Introduced at Developer Summit.
- OctoPkg: A Great GUI Package Manager In FreeBSD. (via)
- How to Access Your Modem’s Web Interface with OPNsense. (via)
- Where in the Stack?
- OpenBSD on the VIA Eden X2 powered HP t510 Thin Client.
Some history, some games.
- tmpfs-13, an experimental hellosystem build.
- Latest iortcw [Return to Castle: Wolfenstein] on OpenBSD.
- What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That packet filter. (via)
- FreeBSD Quarterly Report, 2021Q3.
- Installing and Operating 4.3BSD-tahoe UNIX on the VAX (1988). (via)
- FreeBSD/Ubuntu Dual-boot testbed using Desktop Hardware. (via)
- GhostBSD online meetup, December 11.
- Call For Testing: Removing and hardening sensitive files.
- Valuable News – 2021/11/15.
- Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0. BSD-oriented.
- OpenBSD and Linux comparison: data transfer benchmark. Interesting results… Excessive ACKing?
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Advanced ZFS Snapshots
has a literal headline, plus other straightforward articles. No puns, darnit.
Note the upcoming SEMIBUG meeting. I’ll post a reminder.
- Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in EC2. (via)
- Manage Kubernetes Cluster from FreeBSD with kubectl. (via)
- What if Internet stops? How to rebuild an offline federated infrastructure using OpenBSD.
- OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with Full-Disk Encryption. (via)
- SEMIBUG is meeting November 16th, with a presentation from Deb Goodkin, head of the FreeBSD Foundation. It’s online.
- How I ended liking GNOME. Also, using X with the loss of one hand.
- Valuable News – 2021/11/08.
- UNIX Mouse Shootout.
- 0ad several versions behind, cant play online because of this. Linking so I remember to play it.
- FreeBSD Documentation: Papers We Love To Read.
- go-modules.mk.
- depotdownloader issues.
- FreeBSD 12.3RC1 is out.
- OPNsense 21.7.5 released.
- OpenBSD Webzine #4.
This week’s BSD Now talks about some recent history articles, and links to CultBSD, a new based-on-FreeBSD… distribution? I’m not sure what to call these based-on-a-BSD products.
ChiBUG is meeting tonight at 6PM at Giordano’s. Go if you are near Chicago.
I’ve been on the road but had travel time just sitting there, so I was able to construct this a bit more calmly for once.
- ChiBUG is meeting in-person this Tuesday in the usual place.
- xterm(1) mouse support disabled by default in OpenBSD.
- How to connect and use Bluetooth headphones on FreeBSD. (via)
- Monitoring FreeBSD jails from the host.
- Valuable News – 2021/11/01.
- Looking Towards the Future: FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture.
- HardenedBSD October 2021 Status Report.
- Full WireGuard setup with OpenBSD.
- OPNsense® 21.7.4 released.
- Port of the week: foliate.
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent, amd64 package now available on OpenBSD -current.
- Catchup 2021-11-03 on Undeadly.
I was interviewed by email a short while ago by Alexandre. He’s collecting them from other people, so start with me and keep reading with Vermaden.
I sure hope you don’t disagree with this week’s BSD Now episode title. Among other things, it talks about pot.
I finally cleared out most of my BSD RSS. Now everyone has to post more stuff and refill!
- The OpenSSH server has limits on what user authentication you can use.
- V7 Unix had no stack size limit, and when Unix acquired one. 4BSD like everything else.
- OpenBSD hardware recommendations.
- OpenBSD on a Framework computer.
- SOLVED: FreeBSD nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10026.
- SOLVED: linker_load_file: /boot/modules/openzfs.ko – unsupported file type.
- Advanced ZFS Snapshots.
- LLDB serial port communication support.
- OpenBSD Webzine issue 3.
- My FreeBSD laptop… without a GUI!? A good idea; try it!
- Benchmarking compilation time with ccache/mfs on OpenBSD.
- Reuse of OpenBSD packages for trying runtime.
- Measuring power efficiency of a CPU frequency scheduler on OpenBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/10/25.
- FreeBSD 12.3 BETA is out.
- Catchup 2021-10-08 for OpenBSD Journal.
- Realtek wireless firmwares imported!
- September 30th, 2021 syspatches: some assembly might be required.
- Fall 2021 Advocacy Update.
- OpenBSD on the HiFive Unmatched. (via)
- Advanced Documentation Retrieval on FreeBSD. Necessary skills, for sure. (via)
- Best BSD to try out GNUSTEP + Windowmaker?
This week’s BSD Now talks about OpenBSD and OpenZFS – but not at the same time; don’t misread this.
Live in-person meetings are happening, slowly, finally.
- Register Today for the November 2021 FreeBSD Vendor Summit.
- How BSD Authentication Works. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/10/19.
- Other FreeBSD Version in ZFS Boot Environment.
- Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD.
- Manipulating a Pool from the Rescue System.
- Building Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup. Software and hardware.
- FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh. Muscle-memory issues may get you. (via)
- Open Source Summit 2021 Conference Recap. Live people?!
- FreeBSD Foundation October 2021 Fundraising Update.
- The State of Gaming on OpenBSD in 2022. Stick with it.
- One step closer to my new FreeBSD tower.
- GhostBSD 21.10.16 ISO is now available.
- Experimenting with a new OpenBSD development lab.
- Story of making the OpenBSD Webzine. (There’s 2 issues so far)