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)
This has been a good week for BSD releases, hasn’t it? This week’s BSDNow gets into RISC-V, too.
SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is online, and it’s tomorrow the 19th, at 1900 hours (-0400, Eastern) via Jitsi. It’s going to be about “the advantages of Emacs”, given by a group member. Go, see, even if it’s just to shake your fist at the screen and mumble “viiiiiiiiiiii”.
Somewhat short this week, but there’s several releases.
- Automatic Let’s Encrypt certificates in Apache with mod_md.
- FreeBSD audio from a perspective of a happy user. (via)
- FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup.
- NetBSD, CTWM, and Spleen.
- MATE 1.26.0 upgrade ready. (GhostBSD)
- Valuable News – 2021/10/11.
- OPNsense Business Edition 21.10 released.
- OpenBSD 7.0 released.
This week’s BSD Now is 50% OpenBSD, 50% FreeBSD, plus a whole lot of Beastie Bits.
SLUUG, which has the best acronym, meets tonight at 6ish PM Central time on Zoom.