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2020/12/262020/12/25

In Other BSDs for 2020/12/26

Lots of history this week.

2020/12/25

BSD Now 382: Q&A 2020

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.

2020/12/192020/12/17

In Other BSDs for 2020/12/19

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.

2020/12/17

BSD Now 381: Shell origins

This week’s BSD Now talks about shell history, Plan 9, and new-to-me ArisbluBSD, so it should be fun.

2020/12/122020/12/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/12/12

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.

2020/12/10

BSD Now 380: Early ZFS-mas

I haven’t had much to report this week, but there is a new episode of BSD Now.

2020/12/052020/12/04

In Other BSDs for 2020/12/05

Some interesting ‘how do you do this?’ sort of material this week.

2020/12/03

BSD Now 379: bhyve my guest

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.

2020/12/01

NYCBUG meeting and presentation, tomorrow

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.

2020/11/282020/11/27

In Other BSDs for 2020/11/28

The first link here is the one that everyone should take advantage of.

For the Love of Troff, the next online NYCBUG meeting/presentation, December 2. Go, even if you aren’t near.
Setting up WireGuard on OpenBSD and Linux. (via)
The Origin of the Shell. In Multics, before Unix. (via)
Unix doesn’t normally do short write()s to files and no one expects it to. Network buffers have the same problem.
FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet. See source link comments for more.
OCR on FreeBSD – Tesseract It. (via)
ArisbluBSD: Why a new BSD? Strictly speaking, another FreeBSD desktop. (via)
OPNSense 20.7.5 released.
Tailscale on OpenBSD. (via)
HardenedBSD November 2020 Status Report.
Setting up a WireGuard® client with routing domains on OpenBSD. (via)
MidnightBSD 2.0 release status.
BSD Link Roundup 11.24.
Valuable News – 2020/11/23.

2020/11/26

BSD Now 378: Networknomicon

This week’s BSD Now is a special treat: an interview with author Michael W. Lucas, author of a bunch of BSD and non-BSD books. If you’re looking for presents, he’s selling extra books originally intended for convention sales…