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.
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.