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.
Michael W. Lucas’s ebook sponsorships and print sponsorships for “TLS Mastery” will close in the next 24-48 hours; get in there if you want to participate.
Vermaden, who I link to on the regular, has been doing an excellent job of posting BSD links to lobste.rs.
- So of course I lead with Valuable News – 2021/01/11.
- I got to experience the march of storage technology today. (via)
- Fostering a culture that values stability and reliability. Not directly BSD.
- Hacking List of Installed Packages in FreeBSD. (via)
- How to Run bhyve in Jail. (via)
- usbkill the OpenBSD way. (via)
- BastilleBSD Container Templates and Customization. (via)
- Make Minimal chroot/jail Environment on FreeBSD with mkjail. (via)
- Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD. (via)
- Setup FreeBSD 12 VNET Jail with ZFS. (via)
- Preliminary OpenBSD Support Added to OBS Studio.
- The terminal, the console and the shell – what are they? (via)
I always thought IRC was pretty decentralized, but I didn’t realize talk(1) was designed to work machine-to-machine. That means in theory that if you have a talk(1) binary on your machine, you could chat directly to anyone else with the same binary, even on a different platform. Since 4.3BSD! Anyway, I only realized this because of this recent bugfix thanks to Dan Cross.
A very straightforward title in this week’s BSD Now; worth listening to for more information on Wireguard, the new hotness.
This bulked up fast this week.
- Xfce 4.16 has landed in FreeBSD ports. (via)
- List of some Shell goodies for OpenBSD. (via)
- GNU Date and several versions of RFC 3339 dates.
- Reviving the 1973 Unix text to voice translator. (via)
- FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM. (via)
- Remote work notes from a longtime BSD developer. (via)
- pkgsrc-2020Q4 released.
- HardenedBSD December 2020 Status Report.
- Submitting to dmesgd with curl. (via)
- sysctl parameter
kern.video.recordadded to -current. - Self-host a password manager on OpenBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/01/04.
- BSD Tip: adding a new user.
- GZDoom on OpenBSD using Intel Vulkan.
- Recommendations for an emulation focused OBSD Gaming Rig?
This week’s BSD Now talks about the usual hardware, but also gets into the recently announced Allen K. Briggs scholarship.
Aaron LI has ported timeout(1) to DragonFly. It’s a way to run a command with a time limit, and I’m happy to say it is a cross-BSD item, coming from NetBSD by way of FreeBSD.
It’s online, so everyone can go to “Chatting About TLS and Orcs, by Michael W. Lucas“, tomorrow night. I’m putting this reminder the day before because you have to mail rsvp@lists.nycbug.org to get the Zoom invite.