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.
This week’s BSD Now leads off with a toolchain name but actually starts listing all the FreeBSD Foundation year-end summaries that came out recently. Plus more links.
SEMIBUG’s January talk is on ZFS with Allan Jude, and it’s tonight, 7 PM Detroit time. There’s some AV-on-OpenBSD notes that go with it.
Catching up on some items I missed last week.
- Packet Scheduling with Dummnynet and FreeBSD.
- The important Unix idea of the “virtual filesystem switch”.
- A big PostgreSQL upgrade.
- Some ways to implement /dev/fd in Unix kernels.
- Video: Q&A. About all the mostly-BSD hacking joshua stein does.
- Announcing the pkgsrc-2021Q4 branch. (via)
- The BulkTracker Outage.
- GhostBSD 0nline Meetup, January 21st.
- Valuable News – 2022/01/10.
- LLDB FreeBSD live kernel debugging support.
- Minecraft 1.18.1 and latest MultiMC.
This week’s BSD Now talks about package auditing, of course, and a old software bug, and also there is last week’s BSD Now, Unix Standards Battle, which I forgot to link to last week.
End-of-year articles I am just catching up to now.
- The Tao of tmux (2017). Linked cause it nicely mentions configuration on BSD but also because it’s super-comprehensive. (via)
- Active Directory Needs Friends! A continuation from a previous AD-on-BSD article.
- SEMIBUG’s January 18 talk is on ZFS with Allan Jude, who has cowritten several books about it.
- FreeBSD Foundation 2022 Call for Proposals.
- Toolchains adventures – Q4 2021.
- TrueCommand 2.1 is out.
- OpenBSD Webzine #6.
- Adventures in BSD parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. (via)
- Valuable News – 2022/01/03.
Not today, but for future Fridays: eat lunch with NYCBUG. Say something if you can attend.
Update: I misinterpreted, I thought it was reoccurring weekly starting next week, but it happened today. I was working and couldn’t get to it. I think it’s the equivalent meeting for this month, instead. Somebody from NYCBUG set me straight if I’m still wrong.
Posting this early cause it happens before the regular In Other BSDs post: You can eat lunch virtually with NYCBUG members this Friday, 1-2PM EST.
New year, new links!
- Cool, but obscure X11 tools. xterm is really the gold standard. Linked under BSD cause vermaden’s BSD-compatible comments on the source link are useful. (via)
- HardenedBSD December 2021 Status Report.
- Signal Desktop on OpenBSD via vmm(4). (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/12/27.
- How to upgrade Linux to FreeBSD remotely via SSH. I like the choice of words. (via)
- 2021 Year End Fundraising Report. Multiple employees! (FreeBSD Foundation)
- 2021 in Review: Software Development, same place.
- Getting XFCE Global Menu working on OpenBSD. Might apply to other BSDs too, I dunno.
No pun for a title, but it’s a good description: BSD Now has an interview of Solene Rapenne, who I’ve linked to about a zillion times in the In Other BSDs posts.
The holiday puns continue with BSD Now doing a reverse interview of the hosts.
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.