This week’s BSD Now is entirely an interview of Brian Callahan.
SEMIBUG’s lightning talks event is tonight. No, wait, it’s tomorrow. It’s online with Jitsi so you can see it no matter what – possibly even on BSD?
Still plenty of links I haven’t even got to yet.
- Understanding ZFS Channel Programs.
- Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys.
- Valuable News – 2021/09/13.
- Ghost in the Shell – Part 6 – Learn Shell Scripting.
- Minecraft on lunarclient (on OpenBSD).
- FreeBSD 11.4 EOL.
- TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!)
- Quick fix GhostBSD 21.09.08 ISO now available. (via)
- Using the FreeBSD RACK TCP Stack.
- Plasma System Monitor and FreeBSD.
- libdmx removed in OpenBSD.
- By default,
scp(1)now uses SFTP protocol. - Unlocking UVM faults yields significant performance boost.
- traceroute(8) gets speed boost. My first thought was “but there’s a ceiling to that”.
This week’s BSD Now thankfully skips the pun that might go with the episode number, and talks about various OpenBSD and NetBSD articles.
ChiBUG’s meeting via Google Meeting tomorrow, 6:30PM CDT.
I am severely backlogged on links.
- Valuable News – 2021/09/06.
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 27 – Configuration – Netflix Signal Telegram.
- Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes.
- FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE on Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
- Development Tools Next Steps. FreeBSD moving ever so slowly to git. I think; the announcement assumes you are already knee-deep.
- xterm gets unveiled.
- A Co-op Term at the FreeBSD Foundation.
- R.E.L.I.V.E (Oddworld engine).
- GPU recommendations for OpenBSD dual-monitor workstation + gaming machine.
- Port of the Week: pngquant.
- pkgupdate, an OpenBSD script to update packages fast.
- iked(8) gains client-side support for DNS configuration.
This week’s BSD Now is the usual roundup of news, with the headline taken from an article about FreeBSD’s new/experimental web-based installer. (What, no mention of the installer for DragonFly? It’s been web-compatible for years…) Digs aside, the BSD install experience could be different.
NYCBUG’s hosting “Extreme scripting with KSH and AWK” with G Clifford Williams, tomorrow. It’s online, so everyone can get the lesson.
Note the last link; BSD and M1.
- RSA/SHA1 signature type disabled by default in OpenSSH. Disruptive but good.
- (open)rsync gains include/exclude support.
- Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout. Appropriate illustration.
- HardenedBSD August 2021 Status Report.
- ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, September 14th at 6:30PM CDT via Google Meetings. I’ll post a reminder.
- NYCBUG Sept 8 meeting: Extreme scripting with KSH and AWK. Also reminding.
- Valuable News – 2021/08/30.
- FreeBSD/EC2 AMI Systems Manager Public Parameters.
- A new path: vm86-based venix emulator.
- After Summer. (KDE and BSD planned work)
- Former things – OSSG. BSD in London history.
- Hibernate time reduced. (OpenBSD)
- Fair Internet bandwidth management on a network using OpenBSD.
- NetBSD on the Apple M1. (via)
No allusions or puns in this week’s BSD Now title, for sure. It’s all Michael W. Lucas interviewing, so sure to be a good time.
Longer reading this week.
- Remote desktop on NetBSD with Xnest (no VNC). (via)
- One week with FreeBSD 13 on an Acer Aspire One ZG5. (via)
- Linux is dead, long-live Docker monoculture. (via)
- FreeBSD development on Docker support. (via)
- VoidLinux in FreeBSD Jail; with init. (via)
- Troubleshooting netatalk3 in a FreeBSD jail.
- wifi project status update. (NetBSD)
- Meet the 2021 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students.
- History of ZFS Part 3: Heading Into the Future.
- Valuable News – 2021/08/23.
- [OpenBSD]-current has moved to 7.0-beta.
- Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too).
- OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X (2020). I have never encountered this hardware.
- Useless use of GNU.
It’s a very quiet week here but there’s still a BSD Now episode. It’s covering a bunch of topics, but the title makes me think: all the BSDs have VM hosting solutions now.
I have some barely-BSD links this week but I don’t think you’ll mind.
- Peter Hansteen is presenting virtually for SEMIBUG, tomorrow. “Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better”. 1 PM Eastern, cause he’s in a different time zone, so I am mentioning it early.
- Bringing NetBSD to Zig’s Continuous Integration. (via)
- FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks The OS Install. (via)
- PackagingCon 2021 – a conference for package manager developers and packagers. Hope it includes BSD packaging. (via)
- iXSystems is hiring. (a BSD-specific company)
- NetBSD Explained. (via)
- Install NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11. More acronyms than not in that sentence. (via)
- SerenityOS. Slightly BSD-related. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/08/09 and 2021/08/16.
- EC2 boot time benchmarking.
- OpenBSD on the Framework Laptop.
It’s been a very quiet week, so here’s a link to BSD Now’s netcat printing episode. There’s some variety in the Beastie Bits, too.
Whee!
- InitWare (a systemd fork) runs on OpenBSD for the first time. (via)
- Using UTF?8 [in OpenBSD] (2010) Still applies I think, and knowing the compose mechanism is useful. (via)
- The Design of the NetBSD I/O Subsystems (2002). (PDF, via)
- Unix Shell: History and Trivia. Very in-depth; pre-BSD. (via)
- dancrossnyc/multics: Source for the Multics operating system. Also pre-BSD. (via)
- Yubikey/(pfSense& OpenVPN)/ADDS – HOW DO I MAKE THIS WORK? I am also interested in the answer.
The lead article in this week’s BSD Now talks about how to not change your OS – though it’s both Linux flavors, so it’s not necessarily BSD-related except for schadenfreude. There’s a bunch of other articles linked, so don’t be distracted by my splitting of hairs.
ChiBUG is meeting tonight at 6:30 CDT via Zoom. “Protecting OpenBSD from DMA Attacks” is the presentation; RSVP to the address in that linked message for the meeting link.
Today’s mini-theme: follow threads!
- What are your experiences with VPS providers using *BSD?
- ChiBUG is meeting August 10th at 6:30 CDT via Zoom. “Protecting OpenBSD from DMA Attacks” is the presentation. RSVP for details. I’ll post a reminder day-of.
- Peter Hansteen is presenting virtually for SEMIBUG August 22. “Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better”. 1 PM Eastern, cause he’s in a different time zone. I’ll post again for that too.
- Generating random passwords on BSD – follow the long thread for ideas.
- The slides from the July 7 privacy vs anonymity presentation at NYCBUG. (related non-BSD mention)
- RAID 0 or 1 for OpenBSD. Follow the thread for all the suggestions.
- Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS – Part 1.
- Expanding our FreeBSD home file server.
- suppressing motd on FreeBSD 13.0+.
- Valuable News – 2021/08/03.
This week’s BSD Now talks about online conferences – something I hope we can resume soon. There’s other links of course but that’s the one I want.
Well, not what are you doing there, but you’ll be describing “what you are doing” at a roundtable for NYCBUG’s August meeting tonight.
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