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.
Hardware-heavy this week, sorta.
- leave(1) – remind you when you have to leave.
- Valuable News – 2021/02/01.
- Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD.
- Annotate your PDF files on OpenBSD.
- BREAKING pf(4) change: change route-to so it sends packets to IPs instead of interfaces.
- TwinCAT/BSD, a new (to me at least) commercial use of FreeBSD in industrial settings.
- WireGuard for pfSense Software. I like that it’s sponsored work everyone gets access to.
- ujoy(4) added to -current. (OpenBSD)
- FreeBSD Bhyve Overview – Why Its Better Than Other Hypervisors. (via)
- Gamecontroller updates in -current. Related to previous link.
- OpenBSD KDE Status Report.
- Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages.
- AAA Gaming on OpenBSD with Google Stadia.
- FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin on Non-x86 Architectures.
- MirBSD “announce” RSS feed. A good idea for any project.
findmostly doesn’t needxargstoday on modern Unixes.
With a title like this, it seems you must listen to the newest BSD Now. The title’s talking about pf-badhost. There’s more covered in the episode.
Michael Dexter will be giving a talk for NYCBUG’s February 3rd meeting (6:45 PM Eastern) titled “Fifteen Years and Fifteen Minutes: Applying Occam’s Razor to FreeBSD with OccamBSD“. If you want to attend – and you should – email for the Zoom link; the address to email is in the linked message.
(I managed to miss putting this in In Other BSDs Saturday, but that’s OK; you should go cause this is a topic that isn’t covered anywhere else.)
A FreeBSD-heavy week.
- Remembering the work of David M. Tilbrook and the QED editor. Pre-BSD.
- fzf, for BSD and other places. (via)
- FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Fourth Quarter 2020.
- FreeBSD/i386 demoted to Tier 2 for FreeBSD 13.x
- The strange case of the ching in the unix. (via)
- Create FreeBSD pkg(8) Mirror Using BastilleBSD and Poudriere. (via)
- GhostBSD Install and Review. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/01/25.
- FOSSASIA, March 13-21, call for speakers. It’s virtual.
- FreeBSD Desktop for PineBook Pro. (via)
- cool-retro-term. This will give you flashbacks if applicable.
- OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released.
- OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen). Maybe, maybe worth replacing this x220 with.
- Mirage Online Classic, should play on any BSD.
- Workaround for Bluetooth controllers on OpenBSD.
- NetBSD on the EdgeRouter Lite.
This week’s BSD Now is mostly OpenBSD news items – media work, password keepers, and so on.
It’s the week of Very Long and Excited Page Titles that Give Me Long Link Lines.
- FreeBSD Xfce4 on VMware Installation Guide. (via)
- HardenedBSD 2020/12 Status Report. (via)
- Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools. (via)
- Just realized this… Dennis Ritchie is the true innovator! Posted for the single comment.
- Unix time is in its fourth quarter.
- BSD license violations. (read down)
- Exploring Swap on FreeBSD. (via)
- Tiny PDP11 – Intro. BSD 2.11, VT102, cutest ever. (via)
- Heidi Stettner had a dog named Biff, and that’s why mail notification exists.
- Star Wars PDP-11/45. Not sure if it’s BSD or not. (via)
- Accented characters using a US keyboard layout on OpenBSD.
- OpenRadiant (3D modeller) – Binary distribution advice.
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 22 – Configuration – Aero Snap Extended.
- Block spammers/abusive IPs with Pf-badhost in OpenBSD.
- At a look at helloSystem 0.3.0 – Full on Mac-a-licious!
- Minecraft ? 1.13 working on OpenBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/01/18.
The number for this week’s BSD Now episode is a good one… Now we have to get to 8086! Lots of VLAN/VNET content.