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.
I am happy to be in the new year.
- Most important this week: Chatting About TLS and Orcs, an online NYCBUG speaker event with Michael W. Lucas. RSVP so you can see.
- On the way to the first thousand BSD-powered computers in the hardware database.
- BSD Games for Linux. (via)
- Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
- Starting with FreeBSD jails.
- A potted history of UNIX, just up to BSD. (via)
- The FreeBSD 92. Nakatomi Socrates BSD Easter Egg. Followup from last week’s link. (Thanks, D. Ebdrup.)
- The world’s chunkiest card reader.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/28.
- Use Android USB Tethering to Get Internet on FreeBSD. (via)
- It feels like the broad Unix API is being used less these days.
- A Big Sur look for WindowMaker on OpenBSD.
This week’s BSD Now has a bunch of “project status report” items – normal reports, not end of year roundups, despite the date. Good reading if you aren’t familiar with the work involved, in any case.
As in, right now, and online, so join in and say hi.
Lots of history this week.
- Nakatomi Socrates BSD.
- FreeBSD src now in git. (via)
- Perfecting hashing in NetBSD (2013) Video. (via)
- The original “Spacewar!” running on a virtual DEC PDP-1. Technically early BSD. (via)
- ThinkPad X1 Carbon G4 Running FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE. (via)
- Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship.
- Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/21.
- Youtube Install Video for MidnightBSD.
- Managing Jails with Ansible: A showcase for building a container infrastructure on FreeBSD. (via)
- LimeSuiteSDR is now ported to FreeBSD. (via)
- X86 bsd router suggestions.
There’s an Q&A session for this week’s BSD Now. I haven’t looked carefully enough to see if this is the last for the year, but there’s some fun what-are-you-running-at-home material in there.
Working on less traditional BSD links here.
- Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions.
- Commentary on the MacOS -> FreeBSD article from last week.
- BSD Unix Hardware Support Database. (via)
- BSD Discord server. More linked in comments.
- Become shell literate. Wonderfully not Linux/bash-specific.
- There’s always more history. Early BSD work, indirectly.
- CentOS killed by IBM – a chance to go new ways?
- Set your favorite pager.
- OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus.
- OPNsense 20.7.7 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/14.
This week’s BSD Now talks about shell history, Plan 9, and new-to-me ArisbluBSD, so it should be fun.
Straight from tabs.
- How to get generic interface names and IPs in OpenBSD PF.
- Our monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, such as it is (as of November 2020).
- Show diff output in color.
- FreeBSD Virtualization bhyve and vm-bhyve Setup. (video, via)
- macOS to FreeBSD Migration – Why I Left macOS. (via)
- Contributing FreeBSD Documentation. My only experience with DocBook. (via)
- FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin: Final Milestone Achieved. (via)
- OPNSense 20.7.6 released.
- TrueNAS 12.0u1 is out with OpenZFS 2.0.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/07.
I haven’t had much to report this week, but there is a new episode of BSD Now.
Some interesting ‘how do you do this?’ sort of material this week.
- Install FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi Step by Step Guide. (via)
- Mastering UNIX pipes, Part 1.
- Alpine Linux on FreeBSD 13-CURRENT Inside chroot(8). (via)
- Netatalk on OpenBSD or how to build a free Time Capsule. (via)
- Funded project(s) to improve Linux emulation on NetBSD. (via)
- FreeBSD subversion to git move.
- MidnightBSD 2.0 released.
- Escape Goat 2 on OpenBSD.
- A mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard.
- Building a new homelab server.
- Valuable News – 2020/11/30.
- How to deploy Vger gemini server on OpenBSD.
BSD Now isn’t getting back into the punning headline territory it used to occupy; this week’s broadcast is using the title of the first article discussed – so there’s virtualization, tools, and so on.
The NYCBUG Troff presentation is tomorrow night. If you want to attend – and you should, cause it’s online – you need to email to register. I’ve seen the presenter, James K. Lowden, before; he’s an enjoyable speaker. Go, even if you aren’t near.