HardenedBSD 2021 “State of the Hardened Union”, presented by Shawn Webb, happening at NYCBUG at 6:45 tonight. See the announcement for how to get the invite.
Well, I made up for last week’s short list.
- What tool you use to read IPMI sensor information can matter. Not directly BSD, but the tools described are in ports.
- The origin of POSIX. The name, not the standard. TWAIN has the best pseudo-origin. (via)
- Does the old Unix still exist, besides its descendants? Yes, and so does Theseus’s ship.
- Related: Plan 9 is now open source, along with Inferno. Technically a later version of Unix – plus Inferno can run on BSD. (via)
- NetBSD Bounties for xhci features scatter-gather, suspend/resume. (via)
- HardenedBSD March 2021 Status Report.
- GSoC Reports: Make system(3), popen(3) and popenve(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally (Final report).
- KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2.
- Hitting donation milestone, financial report for 2020.
- How to split a file into small parts.
- UFS Boot Environments.
- What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer?
- Nginx as a TCP/UDP relay. On OpenBSD.
- pkgsrc-2021Q1 branch announcement.
- FVWM(3) and the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/03/29.
- OPNsense 21.1.4 released.
- Only Footnotes. But some of them are BSD footnotes!
Semi-BSD-related: One of my 3 workplaces needs a Software Team Lead. (scroll down) The main product is FreeBSD-based, though this team position does not directly work with it.
This week’s BSD Now is the usual roundup of news; FreeBSD-heavy, including some of the future planning for the project.
Quiet, this week.
- GNU really is a different animal.
- Paired links: Port of the week: diffoscope and Shamir’s secret sharing.
- Enable multi-factor authentication on OpenBSD.
- A working D compiler on OpenBSD.
- mport package manager.
- Valuable News – 2021/03/22.
- Easy text transmission from computer to smartphone. I didn’t know about KDE Connect.
- ohmyksh, for OpenBSD’s ksh.
BSD Now has the usual roundup of news this week, and leads with an article about FreeBSD and ARM – useful for the BSD content, but also interesting cause it has a nice summary of how ARM designs came to be so important.
Solene is publishing faster than I can link!
- EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers open.
- Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V Final Report. (PDF, via)
- FreeBSD 13.0: Full Desktop Experience. (via)
- Pine 64: March Update. Nominally BSD related. (via)
- Creating ports for BSD distributions. (via)
- Wayland on FreeBSD.
- Top 12 best opensource games available on OpenBSD.
- Using pkgsrc on OpenBSD.
- Port of the week[s]: catgirl irc client and pmenu.
- Valuable News – 2021/03/15.
There’s BSD on Mars now, or that’s what the latest BSD Now tells me.
FreeBSD Office Hours are happening tonight, 18:00 UTC. Go, if you’re online.
Literally tabs from my browser in order, here.
- “TLS Mastery” pre-order on my web store. Get the BSD cover of course.
- Quick-publishing of poudriere packages.
- Implement a «Command not found» handler in OpenBSD.
- DIY OpenBSD router advice.
- OPNsense 21.1.3 released.
- Valuable News – 2021/03/08.
- Easy spamAssassin with OpenSMTPD.
- The many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2.
- FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available.
- NomadBSD 1.4 released.
- My new FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390. Lots of detail here if you are looking at a BSD laptop.
- GlusterFS 8 on FreeBSD 13.
- FOSSASIA starts today.
I’d hope that a name like dRAID meant it was a DragonFly system, but no, as this BSD Now episode mentions it as a ZFS technology. Plus the normal news and a tool called ‘just’. Unfortunately ju.st is taken.
ChiBUG’s having a virtual meeting tomorrow night. Register now, especially if you want to hear what Paul Vixie has to say. (You should)
Whoops – I managed to somehow not put the correct publish date on this when I started filling it out. Hopefully it reappears in people’s feeds again. especially cause I did some hardcore link/tab/RSS cleanouts this week.
- HardenedBSD 2021 State of the Hardened Union, April 7th, NYCBUG.
- TrueNAS 12.0-u2.1 released.
- Old USENIX pictures.
- Valuable News – 2021/03/01.
- OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Fuloong. The return of MIPS, which I liked.
- OPNsense 21.1.2 released.
- Use innoextract to get game files from a GOG installer.
- FreshBSD relaunched. (via)
- OpenBSD – make sure wsconsctl is in sync with the kernel.
- MidnightBSD 2.0.5 released.
- Bastille on MidnightBSD.
- Related: HardenedBSD February 2021 Status Report.
- A comparison between mports and FreeBSD ports.
- LLDB: FreeBSD Legacy Process Plugin Removed.
- Multi-OS PXE-booting from FreeBSD 12: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.
- dhcpleased(8) – DHCP client daemon. I’m going to read “please” in that every time.
- resolvd(8) – daemon to handle nameserver configuration.
- Introducing veb(4) – a new Virtual Ethernet Bridge.
- OpenBSD booting multi-user on Apple M1.
- Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id.
- bhyve for Calamares Development.
- Port of the week: checkrestart.
This week’s BSD Now is almost all FreeBSD-related, with mention of something I haven’t investigated enough yet: helloSystem.
NYCBUG’s on Zoom, tonight at 18:45 eastern.
I’ll post reminders day-of for the BUG meetings.
- XScreenSaver version 6 beta 1. Still need BSD beta testers.
- The next FreeBSD Office Hours is March 17th.
- Related though not BSD: Open source projects should run office hours.
- FreeBSD wall display computer. Argh, no RSS feed at that site.
- ChiBUG, virtual meeting March 17th, with Paul Vixie.
- Port of the week: shapez.io – a libre factory game.
- Any MMOs I can play on openbsd?
- Upgrade FreeBSD with ZFS Boot Environments.
- Valuable News – 2021/02/22.
- Next NYC*Bug: March 3rd Gaming on OpenBSD: Pearls, Pitfalls, Paranoia.
- pfSense: Obscure Bugs and Code Wizards.
- From Clean & Green Mockup to OpenBSD cwm(1) desktop.
This week’s BSD Now is a little sad about FreeBSD 13/i386 going to a less-supported platform, but there’s plenty of links to other stories.
There’s a lot to catch up on!
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- FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 graphics on the Panasonic CF-RZ6.
- fstab in FreeBSD jails.
- Using a custom boot logo on Lenovo ThinkPad T460s.
- POSIX locale tracking coming soon. (MirBSD)
- /dev/{drm,drmR} replaced by /dev/dri/{card,renderD}
- runescape on openbsd?
- LWJGL 3.x now in ports tree (makes Minecraft >1.13 run).
- XScreenSaver alpha testers sought. Needs non-Linux testers; you know what to do.
- Seeding a file server quickly.
- A Trip into FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/02/15.
- pfSense Plus 21.02-RELEASE and pfSense CE 2.5.0-RELEASE Now Available.
- Full list of services offered by a default OpenBSD installation.
- Catchup 2021-02-13. (OpenBSD) Hey that’s my schtick!
- Project Status, happy 15th anniversary. (MidnightBSD)
- FreeBSD and I2C. (via)
- NetBSD Resources. (via)
The menacing BSD Now for this week covers a bunch of stuff, not just post hoc arguments, but there’s a special request: old retail BSD software. If you have older commercial disks or images floating around, they want to know.
I have a link backlog, yay!
- Install OpenBSD 6.8 on PINE64 ROCK64 Media Board. (via)
- The FreeBSD Foundation is hiring a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer.
- Also a FreeBSD Open Source Project Coordinator.
- Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD. (via)
- Talkd and ‘mesg n’: a story from the old Unix days.
- The helloSystem 0.4.0 Now Available. (via)
- TrueNAS 12.0-U2 released.
- OpenBSD guest with bhyve – OmniOS. (via)
- OPNsense 21.1.1 Released.
- pfSense Plus and pfSense CE: Dev Insights and Direction.
- WireGuard in pfSense 2.5 Performance.
- We are now at 6.9-beta, go for snapshots, test!
- Valuable News – 2021/02/08.
It’s been a quiet week, but at least we have the regular BSD Now episode to hear. They talk about Plan 9 this week, which I guess isn’t BSD but still entertains me.