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.
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.
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…
Right outta RSS.
- Before the BSD Kernel starts: Part One on AMD64. (via)
- hello: Let’s make a FreeBSD for “mere mortals”. (via)
- Recommend me a small laptop/netbook for NetBSD?
- Why I use OpenBSD.
- FuguITA: OpenBSD live-cd.
- BSD statistics for October 2020. Not a good place to post this; it’ll get lost.(via)
- How to Set Up and Install TrueNAS CORE.
- Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD with the Creative BT-W3.
- Unbound DNS Blacklist. On BSD of course.
- Valuable News – 2020/11/16.
I am posting it a bit late, but this week’s BSD Now has a bunch of how-tos and history; a good mix.
My BSD RSS feeds are strangely quiet this week.
- Quick and Dirty OpenBSD Version Upgrade on a Running System.
- Fast follower post – making OpenBSD UI a bit “prettier” (as I see it).
- Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2020/11/09.
- OpenBSD and you, the 6.8 update.
- Mktemp started on OpenBSD.
- Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential. WSL 2 may be a dead end.
- OpenBSD Router Guide. (via)
The newest BSD Now is up with the usual suspects for topics: a FreeBSD release, a ZFS item, and something OpenBSD.
Virtual BUG meetings could be fun (see links); I’d like to attend even if it’s not local. If I can put aside time…
- CDBUG meetings going virtual.
- FreeBSD 12.2 on Azure.
- November 2020 FreeBSD Vendor Summit starts the 11th.
- What kind of controllers work with OpenBSD for playing games?
- HardenedBSD October 2020 Status Report.
- A list of games to try that probably all run on BSD.
- Performance tip(s) for those playing Minecraft on OpenBSD. Or any BSD, probably.
- OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD.
- Join the peer to peer social network Scuttlebutt using OpenBSD and Oasis.
- Argument processing in Unix and Windows.
- Video: C Programming on System 6 – Adding a GUI to diff(1). Sorta BSD?
- FreeBSD July-September status report.
- My first FreeBSD port: Castor.
- Valuable News – 2020/11/02.
I’m a bit late noting it, but BSD Now 375 is almost all virtualization topics.
Spooky Halloween BSD News! Well, not really.
- Dual Boot FreeBSD and Linux from Single ZFS Pool. (via)
- The FreeBSD k8s-bhyve Project – Looking for Free Testing Equipment. (via)
- Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD. (via)
- Contributions over 28 years of NetBSD src history. (via)
- History of FreeBSD – Part 2: BSDi and USL Lawsuits. (via)
- Lenovo T420 FreeBSD Tweaks. Still valid; hardware still exists. (via)
- Automating OpenBSD Vultr VM deployment with Ansible. (via)
- Default OpenBSD Web Server. Out on GitHub, not within the main repo? (via)
- How the OpenBSD -stable packages are built.
- Port of the week: rclone.
- OpenVPN as default gateway on OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD 12.2 is out.
- Realtek RTL8188CUS – USB 802.11n WiFi Review.
- OPNSense 20.7.4 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/10/26.
- BSD hardware trends. (via)
- Video: C Programming on System 6 – Porting OpenBSD’s diff(1).
This week’s BSD Now is all about releases – OpenBSD, NetBSD, BastilleBSD…
It’s apparently release week?
- Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via)
- BSDCan 2021 is canceled.
- NetBSD 9.1 released.
- OpenBSD 6.8 Released.
- REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer.
- TrueNAS 12.0 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/10/19.
- FreeBSD Q3 2020 report.
- FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track.
- Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD.
- how to play celeste with sound—sort of. AKA getting fmod to play on a BSD.
- People asking about FreeBSD licencing.
- OpenBSD 6.8 introduces a new hardware database client program.
- Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!
This is the most straightforwardly-named BSD Now in a while: it’s an interview of Kyle Evans talking about his projects in FreeBSD.
This list of links runs in the same order of the BSD RSS feeds in my reader. What a coincidence!
- pkgsrc-2020Q3 released.
- The FreeBSD Town Hall was Wednesday and I didn’t post about it in time, but previous Town Halls are available.
- Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD.
- Valuable News – 2020/10/12.
- OpenBSD Laptop. (via)
- Cryptographic Signing using
ssh-keygen(1)with a FIDO Authenticator. - RETGUARD for powerpc and powerpc64 added to -current.
- How to open source: going from NetBSD to Linux.
- Michael W. Lucas is having a book sale.
This week’s BSD Now has the usual roundup, with I think the highlight being a discussion of how SSDs can sometimes still not be fast enough for a ZFS scrub, depending on how it’s scheduled.